PANTOPOftlA. 305 



Race asita. 



Athyma asita, Moore, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 13 6 ; de N. Butt. Ind. 

 ii, 18SG, p. 180; Moore (Pantoporia), Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, 

 p. 199, pi. 263, figs. 2, 2 a, rf$. 



ite inara (PI. IX, fig. 62). 



Liminitis inara, Doubleday, in Dblday., Westw. $• .Sew. 6?e«. 2)*. 

 Zep. ii, 1850, pi. 34, fig. 3 S ; de -#". (Athyma) -Bw«. 7ntZ.ii, 

 1886, p. 179 ; Moore (Pantoporia), Lep. Ind,. 'iii, 1896-99, p. 196, 

 pi. 264, figs. 1, l«-le, 6 2. 



Race nivifera, Butler. — S . Upperside black with snow-white 

 markings more or less edged with irrorations of blue scales. Pore 

 wing : discoidal streak obscurely divided and uneven along its 

 upper margin ; a much-curved and broadly-interrupted discal band 

 white ; the latter composed of three outwardly oblique quadrate 

 spots in interspaces 1 a, 1 and 2, and three oblong spots inclined 

 inwards in interspaces 4, 5 and 6, no spot in interspace 3 ; beyond 

 this an inner and an outer subterminal pale line divided by a 

 transverse narrow black band, the former terminating near apex 

 in an obliquely-placed small narrow white spot. Hind wing : the 

 discal band of the fore wing continued as a subbasal transverse 

 white band : a postdiscal, narrower, more or less macular band 

 also white, and a very distinct pale, still narrower, subterminal band. 

 The interspace between the postdiscal and the subterminal bands 

 darker than the general ground-colour of the wing, and the post- 

 discal band on the inner side margined with similarly coloured 

 cone-shaped marks. Underside brown, the white markings as on 

 the upperside but somewhat diffuse, the interspaces of the ground- 

 colour more or less blotched with darker brown, forming on the 

 hind wing a conspicuous discal transverse series of spots in the 

 interspaces ; the dorsal margin of the hind wing broadly bluish white. 

 Antenuae, head, thorax and abdomen above dark brownish black, the 

 thorax and base of the abdomen respectively crossed by a bar of 

 bluish white ; beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen bluish white. 

 — 2 • Upperside black, the markings similar to those in the <$ , but 

 orange-yellow and much broader; on the fore wing the discal 

 band complete, the inner subterminal band much broader and 

 better defined. Underside : the ground-colour a paler brown than 

 in the <5 , the markings as on the upperside but pinkish white, the 

 dark brown blotches in the interspaces and the series of dark 

 discal spots on the hind wing more prominent. 



Exp. S 2 60-68 mm. (2-38-2-7"). 



Bab. Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, extending up to the 

 Mergui Islands. 



This race differs from the typical Javan form P. nefte in the 

 narrower discal band on the fore wing and markedly in the 

 narrowness of the subbasal band on the hind wing. In the 6 the 

 ground-colour of the underside is of a darker brown than in 

 typical P. nefte. 



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