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NYMPHALID^. 



Genus AUZAKIA. 



Liminitis, pt., de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 188G, p. 156. 

 Auzakia, Moore, Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 148. 

 Bhagadatta, Moore, Lep. Ind. iii, 1898, p. 154. 



Type, A. danava, Moore, from the Himalayas. 



Range. The Himalayas : hills of Assam and Upper Burma to 

 China. 



S 2 • Fore wiug : costa slightly arched ; apex produced ; 

 termen slightly concave ; tornus bluntly angulate : dorsum slightly 

 sinuous ; cell not half length of wiug ; upper discocellular minute, 

 middle very short, straight, lower comparatively long, slender; 

 veins 3 and 4 from lower apex of cell, 8 out of basal half of 7, 

 9 and 10 free. Hind wing : costa and termen widely arched, 

 latter slightly scalloped ; apex rounded ; tornus produced, acute, 

 rounded in some forms ; dorsum widely curved ; cell slenderly 

 closed ; veins 3 and 4 approximate from lower apex of cell, vein 6 

 closer to 5 than to 7. Antennae over half length of fore wing ; 

 club long, narrow, gradual ; palpi short, stout, third joint acutely 

 pointed ; eyes naked. 



Key to the forms of Auzakia. 



a. Upperside ground-colour fuliginous with broad 



very dark brown basal markings A. danava, p. 800. 



b. Upperside ground-colour rich warm umber- 



brown, with comparatively slender dark 



brown basal markings A. austenia, p. 301. 



318. Auzakia danava, Moore (Liminitis), Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i, 

 1857, p. 180, pi. 6 a, fig. 2, tf $ ; de N. (Liminitis) Butt. Ind. ii, 

 1886, p. 157: Moore, Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 149, pi. 249, 

 tigs. 1, 1 a-l c, 6 2 • 



$ . Upperside fuliginous brown, paling on the terminal half of 

 the wings. Fore wing : the basal area below the cell, two broad 

 bands across the latter, and a patch beyond its apex to costa dark 

 brownish black, the outer margin of the dark area crenulate, 

 extended angularly along the veins ; this is followed by a pale 

 olive-brown obscure band, a discal dark brown band widening 

 below costa, and a subterminal narrower band of the same shade ; 

 between discal and subterminal bands is a series of faintly de- 

 fined dark transverse spots in the interspaces. Hind wing : basal 

 third dark brown, followed by a pale olive-brown interspace; 

 discal, postdiscal and subterminal bands as on the fore wing ; 

 tornus suffused with green. Underside pale ochraceous, suffused 

 with lilacine ; cell of fore wing crossed by a medial and an apical 

 brighter lilac band bordered with dark lines on both sides ; base 

 and cell of hind wing with the usual loop-like slender dark marks 

 with pale centres ; a lilac discal band, lunular and curved inwards 

 anteriorly on the fore wing, broad and straight on the hind wing, 



