CIEEOCHEOA. 



427 



428. Cirrochroa aoris, Doubleday, inBblday., Westw. ty Hew. Gen. Di. 

 Lev. i, 1848, p. 157, pi. 21, fig. 2 £ \ de N. Butt. Inch u, 1886, 

 p. 109 ; Moore Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 212, pi. 364, figs. 1, 1 a- 



Cirrochroa abnormis, Moore, J. A. 8. B. 1884, p. 19; de N. Butt. 



Ind, ii, 1886, p. 110; Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 214, 



pi. 865, figs. 1, 1 a, S ■ 

 Cirrochroa jiraria, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1883, p, 281. 



Race olivacea. 



Cirrochroa olivacea, de X. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 110, pi. 24, 

 fio-. Ill 2 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 214, pi. 365, 



figs. 2,2 «-2c, c?$- 



Wet-season form. — <$ . Upperskle tawny, base of the wings shaded 

 with olivaceous. Fore wing: a trans- 

 verse, dusky, obscure, short narrow 

 band along the discocellulars ; a trans- 

 verse dusky black sinuous discal line, 

 terminating in an oblique short black 

 streak at base of interspace 7 ; a trans- 

 verse series of very obscure diffuse dark 

 spots ; apex broadly, termen narrowly 

 black ; from the former is emitted 

 downwards a subterminal slender zig- 

 zag black line. Hind wing : a trans- 

 verse dark discal sinuous line and 

 series of black spots in continuation of 

 those on the fore wing, the spots 

 much more clearly defined ; a post- 

 discal transverse series of slender 

 lunular dark markings, followed by an 

 inner and an outer dark subterminal 

 line ; the inner line lunular, the outer 

 straight. The discal transverse line and postdiscal series of lunules 

 each bordered by a prominent white subcostal spot. Underside 

 ochraceous. Eore and hind wings with a common pinkish-white 

 conspicuous transverse discal fascia, its inner margin highly 

 sinuous, its outer straight, followed by a transverse series of spots 

 as on the upperside ; a common subterminal transverse lunular 

 narrow band and a straight narrow border to the termeu, the 

 latter two of a darker ochraceous than the ground-colour. The 

 basal area of both fore and hind wings with some dark ochraceous 

 transverse sinuous short lines ; the apex of the fore wing white ; 

 the subterminal lunular line on the hind wing bordered inwardly 

 and outwardly by obscure broad pinkish-white lunules. Antenna? 

 brown ; head, thorax and abdomen fulvous brown ; beneath, the 

 palpi white, the thorax and abdomen ochraceous. — 2 • Upperside 

 pale brown ; fore and hind wings crossed transversely by a very 

 broad white discal band, its inner and outer margins irregularly 

 zigzag, but sharply defined ; anteriorly the band widens on the 



Fig. 79. 



Cirrochroa aoris, $ . -§ . 



