ARASCHNIA. 375 



concave, lower oblique ; vein 3 from a little before lower apex of 

 cell, 4 from apex, 9 and 10 from basal half of 7, 11 free. Hind 

 wing : costa nearly straight, strongly curved at base ; termen 

 slightly scalloped, strongly arched ; tornus angulated ; dorsum 

 slightly arched ; cell open ; vein 7 about four times as far from 

 8 as from 6 at base. Antennae about half length of fore wing ; 

 club well-marked, but long and gradual ; palpi porrect, acutely 

 pointed at apex ; third joint long ; eyes hairy. 



A single form, a local race of the Chinese Araschnia prorsoides, 

 Blanchard, is recorded from the Nairn Hills, in Assam. 



3S7. Araschnia prorsoides, Blanchard (Vanessa), Compt. Head. Acad. 

 Sci. lxxii, 1871, p. 810. 



Race doner tyi. 

 Araschnia prorsoides, Elwes (nee Blanchard), P. Z. S. 1891, p. 285, 



pi. 27, figs. 5,6, ^ 2- 

 Araschnia dohertvi, Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 108, 



pi. 320, figs. 3, 3 a, 3h, tf £ . 



Race dohertyi, Moore. — J $ . Upperside dark brown ; three or 

 four very slender transverse white lines across cell of fore wing, 

 the middle one continued across the base of the hind wing ; a 

 luuular white spot beyond apex of cell in fore wing, followed by 

 an ochraceous small spot, an outwardly oblique series of two very 

 slender, short, ochraceous subcostal lines, two larger white spots 

 in interspaces 5 and 6 and a minute white spot in interspace 4 ; 

 a short, broad, oblique, white, somewhat macular discal band, not 

 extending beyond interspace 2, two detached white spots in con- 

 tinuation of it above in interspaces 3 and 4, and above them three 

 ochraceous preapical spots in interspaces 6, 7 and 8 ; beyond these 

 there is a very incomplete subterminal line of broad, somewhat 

 lunular, ochraceous transverse markings on fore wing ; on the 

 hind wing the discal band is continued transversely across the 

 wing to vein 1 a, and the subterminal line of ochraceous lunules 

 to a little above the tornus ; there is also a slender ochraceous 

 postdiscal line on the posterior half of the wing. Underside 

 beautifully variegated with bands and lines of chestnut-purple 

 ochraceous, creamy white and black ; the pale cream-coloured 

 discal band as on the upperside. Fore wing : the basal half 

 crossed by pale yellow-margined broad bands, the basal ochraceous, 

 the outer two castaneous purplish posteriorly and with outer black 

 lines ; the veins pale yellow; a pale yellow, short, oblique bar from 

 costa beyond the cell with a purplish patch below it bearing two 

 Avhite spots, the apex and the termen medially creamy white ; an 

 inner and an outer subterminal, sinuous, black line. Hind wing : 

 basal area similarly banded ; beyond the broad discal band is a 

 sinuous, irregular, very narrow, transverse cream-white broad line 

 followed by a medial purplish patch ; a postdiscal series of pale 

 ochraceous lunules bordered by dark ochraceous, and subterminal 

 and terminal black lines as on the fore wing. Antenna?, head, 



