LEBADEA. 299 



branching from well beyond lower apex of cell, 6 as close to 7 as 

 to 5. Antennae very long, nearly two-thirds length of fore wing ; 

 club long, narrow, gradual : palpi subporrect, short ; eyes naked. 



317. Lebadea martha (PI. X, fig. 73), Fabr. (Papilio) Mant. Ins. ii, 



1787, p. 56 2 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 158, pi. 252, 



figs. 2, 2a-2 c,J2. 

 Liminitis ismene, Doubleday, in Dblday., Westw. 8f Hew. Gen. Di. 



Lep. ii, 1850, p. 276, pi. 34, fig. 2 J; de N. (Lebadea) Butt. 



Inch ii, 1886, p. 152, pi. 19, fig. 79 tf ; Moore (Lebadea), Lep. 



Ind, iii, 1896-99, p. 157, pi. 252, figs. 1, 1 a, <$ 2 . 

 Lebadea attenuata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 829 ; de N. Butt. Ind. 



ii, 1886, p. 152. 



<5 2 . Upperside deep tawny. Fore and hind wings crossed 

 obliquely by a straight white discal band, on the fore wing 

 macular and curved slightly inward beyond apex of cell ; the 

 basal area of the wings, on the inner side of the discal band, 

 crossed by several black sinuous short transverse lines, and the 

 cell of the fore wing, near its apex, by a pale transverse black- 

 margined short band. Beyond the discal line and running to near 

 the apex of the wing is a series of slender, white, outwardly dusky- 

 bordered lunules, followed by a highly sinuous subterminal black 

 line, inwardly somewhat faintly margined with white ; apex of 

 fore wing touched with white ; termen of fore wing in most 

 specimens broadly suffused with greyish brown ; the spots com- 

 posing the discal band on the fore wing outwardly concave ; 

 outer margin of the same band on the hind wing sinuous. Under- 

 side dull pale ochraceous brown, the basal area of the wings 

 irrorated with greenish-white scales ; the markings as on the 

 upperside, but the white markings broader and somewhat diffuse ; 

 the subterminal highly sinuous dark line comparatively broadly 

 margined on both sides with white. Antennae brown, the club 

 preapically touched with white ; head, thorax and abdomen tawny ; 

 beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen white. 



Exp. s 2 64-77 mm. (2-53-3'03"). 



Hab. Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim. 



A very variable form. The following is a brief summary of the 

 variations that are commonly to be found : — The width of the 

 discal band may range on the hind wing from a mere broad white 

 line to a prominent band 4 mm. or over in width. Many speci- 

 mens are intermediate between the two. This variation seems 

 not to depend entirely on locality. There are specimens in the 

 British Museum of both extremes as to width of band from 

 the same place in Upper Burma. The ground-colour, especially 

 of the fore wing, is also very variable. Sometimes the fore wing- 

 is entirely brown, the deep tawny colour being restricted to a 

 spot or two within the encircling black marks at the base of the 

 wing. In parts of Burma there is also a slight difference between 

 the wet-season and dry-season forms, the markings in the latter 

 being more obscure and the underside paler. 



