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of the band of tlie ground-colonr between the discal and snbmarginal 

 bands in that species is increased. 



There are two male specimens of N. hurmana in Major Marshall's 

 collection, both taken by Captain C. T. Bingham, one in the Donat range 

 in January, the other at Sekkan, Thonngyeen, in February. 



Family LEMONIID^. 

 Subfamily Nemeobiinji. 

 4. Abisara chela, n. sp., PI. XI, Fig. 7, S . 



Description. Male. Upperside, both wings dark fuscous brown. 

 Foreiving with an oblique white discal band from the middle of the costa 

 to about the middle of the submedian interspace, variable in width ; a 

 submarginal narrow white line, sometimes distinct throughout its length* 

 at others blurred in the middle, but always ending in a distinct white spot 

 at the costa ; one or two short fine marginal white lines at the anal angle. 

 Eindwing with two submarginal rounded black spots divided by the dis- 

 coidal nervule, the upper one the smaller and outwardly circled with white, 

 the lower one marked anteriorly and posteriorly with white ; the outer 

 portion of the discoidal and third median nervules orange ; three somewhat 

 indistinct black lunular spots on the margin in the median and submedian. 

 interspaces, inwardly defined with a pale line, the spot in the submedian 

 interspace geminated ; two fine interrupted white marginal lines ; tail 

 short and marked with white ; an ill- defined discal pale band, inwardly 

 sharply defined, outwardly blurred. Underside, hotJi ivings much paler^ 

 all the markings more distinct. Forewing with the discal and submar- 

 ginal bands much broader than above, the latter always well-marked 

 throughout its length. Eindwing marked as above, but the space from 

 the discal band to the margin irrorated with white, the outer portion of 

 all the veins orange. Female. Upperside, hoth wings paler than in the 

 male, tinged throughout with ferruginous, the veins of the Mndiving more 

 broadly marked with orange. Underside with the same differences as 

 above. 



Expanse: ^, 1'75 to I'OO ; $, 1-90 inches. 



Hab.— Sikkim, Sylhet. 



Allied to A. neophron, Hewitson, which occurs in the same places 

 with it, and in Sikkim in the same months ; differs from it in its smaller 

 size, usually broader discal band on the forewing, the submarginal line 

 usually more prominent, and always ending anteriorly in a white spot, 

 which is never the case in A. neophron ; markedly also in the length of the 

 tail, this part being fully twice as long in A. neophron as it is in A. chela. 

 Through the kindness of Mr. Otto MoUer I have examined a long series 



