314 NYMPHALID^;. 



330. Pantoporia abiasa, Moore (Athyma), P. Z. 8. 1858, p. 16, pi. 50, 



fig. 7 d ; de N. (Athyma) Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 174 ; Moore 

 (Kironga), Lep. Ind. in, 1896-99, p. 213, pi. 270, figs. % 2 a, $ $ . 

 Athyma clerica, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. i, 1877, p. 540, pi. 69, 

 fig. 5 c?. 



6 2 ' Upperside dark brownish black with white markings, 

 narrower in the 2 than in the $ . Fore wing : discoidal streak 

 short, slender, with a large spot well separated beyond it, and a. 

 faint transverse short line on the discocellulars ; discal band 

 slightly curved, mucb interrupted, composed of a spot in inter- 

 space la, another in the posterior portion of interspace 1, a 

 larger oval spot in interspace 2, well separated from the one below 

 it, a small contiguous spot in interspace 3, and an oblique series of 

 small spots in interspaces 4, 5 and 6, the spot in 4 minute ; a 

 postdiscal line of transverse small spots followed by a subterminal 

 obscure pale line. Hind wing with the usual subbasal broad 

 band ; a sinuous postdiscal series of conical spots, and a pale 

 obscure subterminal line. Underside purplish brown, the spots 

 and bands tinged with pale pinkish blue, all larger and the outer 

 ones better defined than on the upperside ; the interspace of 

 ground-colour between the markings broadly blotched with dark 

 brown ; the dorsal margin of the hind wing broadly greenish blue. 

 Antenna?, head, thorax and abdomen dark brownish black, the 

 abdomen with a basal transverse white bar ; beneath, the palpi, 

 thorax and abdomen bluish white. 



Exp. S 2 60-66 mm. (2-38-2-6"). 



Hah. Malayan Subregion, extending into our limits at Mergui 

 in S. Teuasserim. 



Genus ATHYMA. 



Athvma, Westivood, in Dblday., Westio. § Hew. Gen. Di. Lepj. ii, 

 1850, p. 272 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 165 j Moore, Lep. Ind. 

 iii, 1896-99, p. 183. 



Tacorsea, Tharasia, Ckendrana, et Tacola, Moore, Lep. Ind. iii, 

 1898, pp. 176, 180, 182 & 192. 



Type, A. perius, Linn., from India, 



Range. Indo-Malayan Region. 



S 2 • Fore wing short, broad, triangular; costa moderately 

 arched, apex blunt ; termen nearly straight, slightly concave 

 in the middle ; tornus angular ; dorsum slightly sinuous ; cell 

 open ; veins 5, 6 and 7 very closely approximate at base, upper 

 and middle discocellulars therefore minute ; vein 9 from middle 

 of 7, 10 and 11 free, from apical third of subcostal. Hind wing- 

 ovate ; costa strongly curved near base, then nearly straight ; 

 apex rounded ; termen widely arched, scalloped ; tornus well 

 marked ; abdominal fold broad ; cell open ; vein 7 equidistant 

 from 6 and. 8 at base. Antennas long, nearly two-thirds length of 

 fore wing ; club long, narrow, gradual ; palpi short, broad, densely 

 scaled, third joint short and conical ; eyes typically naked, in 



