428 NYMPHALIDiE. 



costal margin of the fore wing and is medially traversed through- 

 out its length by a narrower brown band bearing a transverse 

 superposed row of spots similar to that in the tf ; the medial 

 band and the spots well defined on the hind wing, somewhat 

 diffuse on the fore wing ; beyond the discal band is a transverse 

 series of broad white lunular markings succeeded by a terminal 

 brown band inwardly defined by a darker line. Underside a pale 

 ochraceous drab ; the discal band as in the tf but lilacine white, 

 inwardly bordered by a highly sinuous pale brown narrow band ; 

 a transverse sinuous narrow subbasal pale brown band, and short 

 transverse similar bands defining the apices of the cell-areas in 

 both fore and hind wings ; beyond the discal band the transverse 

 series of spots and the subterminal and terminal markings similar 

 to those in the <5 , but the latter very much paler. Antennae 

 ochraceous brown ; head, thorax and abdomen brown, pale drab- 

 white beneath. 



Dry-season form. — rf . Upperside differs from that in the wet- 

 season form in the greater or less obsolescence of the transverse 

 black markings on both fore and hind wings. On the fore wing 

 the black apex and terminal margin and black subterminal zigzag- 

 line are the only markings clearly defined ; on the hind wing the 

 discal and subterminal transverse lines are more or less broken 

 and ill-defined. Underside : ground-colour and markings similar 

 to but paler than in the wet-season form. — $ . Upperside tawny 

 golden yellow ; dark markings nearly as in the wet-season form, 

 but the discal band and outer transverse lunular markings not 

 white, of the same shade as the ground-colour of the wings. 

 Underside very pale ochraceous, the markings of the upperside 

 showing through by transparency ; the markings on the basal 

 area of the wings as in the wet-season form. 



Eccp. <s 2 88-94 mm. (3'47-3*72"). 



Hab. Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Assam, 'the Khasi and Naga Hills ; 

 Cachar. 



C. abnormis, Moore, said to be from Darjiling, and of which 

 the type, a male, is the only specimen on record, is, I think, a 

 casual aberration of C. aoris. Like C. aoris, it has the fore wing 

 truncated at apex ; it differs, however, on the upperside in the 

 very heavily-marked transverse discal and subterminal lines cross- 

 ing both fore and hind wings ; the apex and termen of the fore 

 wing are dusky black, not jet-black, and on the hind wing the 

 discal spots are much smaller, the i^ostdiscal series of lunules 

 absent, and the inner subterminal transverse line not lunular. On 

 the underside the type-specimen is dull dark ochraceous, and all 

 the markings are more or less obsolescent. 



Race olivacea, de Niceville. — S . Upperside differs from the 

 typical form as follows: — Fore wing, apex and termen more 

 broadly black, the black on the latter extending to and coalescing 

 with the subterminal zigzag line except in interspace 1, where 



