490 nemeobid^e. 



before lower apex of cell, 4 from apex, 6 and 7 stalked. Antennae 

 slender, slightly over half length of fore wing; club fusiform, 

 narrow ; palpi very short, porrect, third joint short ; eyes hairy. 



Key to the forms of Abisara. 



a. Hind wing terminal margin not concave or 



emarginate above vein 4 A. fylla, p. 490. 



b. Hind wing terminal margin concave or emar- 



ginate above vein 4. 

 a. Upperside : ground - colour dull hair- 

 brown. 

 a 2 . Fore wing : discal oblique white fascia 

 distinctly narrowing posteriorly, ex- 

 tended to vein 1 A. neophron, p. 491. 



b 1 . Fore wing : discal oblique white fascia 

 not or very slightly narrowed pos- 

 teriorly, not extended to vein 1 A. chela, p. 492. 



b'. Upperside : ground-colour purplish or 

 maroon-brown. 

 a 2 . Upperside fore wing without any white 

 markings, or if present restricted to 



anterior portion of discal fascia A. echerius, p. 492. 



b 2 . Upperside fore wing with more or 

 less conspicuous white markings. 

 a 3 . Upperside fore wing with a preapical 



diffuse white patch Race kausumbi, p. 494. 



b 3 . Upperside fore wing with di«cal and 



postdiscal fasciae white anteriorly. . Race bifasciata, p. 494. 



471. Abisara fylla, Doubleday (Taxila), List Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. 2, 

 1847, p. 2 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 321 : Moore (Sospita), 

 Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 78, pi. 399, figs. 1, 1 a-1 c, tf $ • 



S . Upperside rich dark brown. Fore wing with a cream- 

 coloured even band from middle of costa to tornus, bent slightly 

 inwards at each end ; a subterminal transverse, very obscure, pale 

 fascia ending anteriorly in a white dot and 

 two subapical white dots. Hind wing : 

 postdiscal and subterminal very obscure 

 pale transverse fasciae ; the latter with a 

 superposed series of seven oval black spots, 

 each with a white dot on the outer margin 

 and inwardly pale-edged ; the preapical 

 two and posterior two of these spots only 

 clearly defined, the others obsolescent, the 

 preapical two the larger. Underside duller 

 brown ; the markings as on the upperside ; 

 the hind wing with indications of a sub- 

 -pv 8 q basal pale fascia in addition to the others. 



Abisara fylla, V- \. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark 

 brown ; beneath, the palpi, thorax and 

 abdomen paler ; antennae with a white dot at apex. — $ . Similar ; 

 the termen of the hind wing more distinctly but very broadly 



