394 nymphalidte. 



invariably, a number of whitish spots on the basal areas of both 

 wings. Antennae blackish brown, ochraceous at apex ; head, 

 thorax and abdomen dark fulvous brown ; beneath, the palpi 

 white, the thorax and abdomen pale brown. 



Exp. S 2 84-88 mm. (3'31-3-48"). 



Hob. Sikhim ; 8. India ; Ceylon ; Assam ; Burma and 

 Tenasserim. 



Larva. Black, with two rows of dorsal white spots. Head 

 with a pair of branched spines ; rest of the segments with a dorsal 

 and a lateral row of blue branched spines on each side. 



Pupa. Yellowish with numerous black spots; constricted in the 

 middle; head produced into two points. (Described from figure 

 in Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc.) 



Race andamanensis, Fruhstorfer, closely resembles the Indian 

 form, but differs in the oblique yellow band on the upperside of 

 the fore wing, which is broader and extends from the middle of 

 the costal margin uninterruptedly to interspace 4, though it is 

 preapically constricted. On the upperside of the hind wing there 

 is an inner as well as an outer conspicuous subterminal narrow 

 black band. On the underside this race is as variable as the 

 typical form, but the ground-colour in many specimens (presumably 

 wet-season broods) is of a richer, almost metallic green, with the 

 basal snow-white spots defined with black lines ; the ocelli in inter- 

 spaces 2 and 5 seem also to be more clearly defined than in the 

 Indian form. Antennas, head, thorax and abdomen as in malabarica. 



Exp. <$ 2 71-82 mm. (2-81-3-22"). 



Hob. The An damans. 



The forms of Dolescliallia are all eminently variable. Within 

 our limits I have, after the examination of a long series, been 

 able to clearly discriminate only two fairly constant races, and 

 specimens of these even vary not only on the underside, which 

 is cryptic in coloration and therefore liable to much variation, 

 but also on the upperside. A S from the Andamans, in my 

 collection, has the band remarkably short, about half the length of 

 that in other specimens ; while a 2 from Upper Burma, also in 

 my collection, has the band broad and long, precisely as in the race 

 andamanensis. A 3 specimen from Sikhim, in the collection of 

 the British Museum, has the ground-colour on the underside of 

 the wings up to the transverse discal band dark brownish black, 

 and beyond the band violaceous grey, in striking contrast. 



Genus KALLIMA. 



Kallima, Doubleday, in Dblday., Westw. fyHew. Gen. Di. Lep. 1849, 

 p. 324, pi. 52 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 36 ; de N. Butt. Ind. h. 

 1886, p. 257 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 159. 



Type, K. paralelcta, Horsfield, from Java. 



Range. The Indo-Malayan Region. 



<5 2 • Fore wing very broadly triangular, the costa and termen 



