ABISABA. 



491 



angulated outwards in the middle. Upperside : the ground-colour 

 paler duller brown, the oblique band on the fore wing pure white, 

 not cream-coloured; six (not seven) black spots in the subterminal 

 series on the hind wing, the spots larger and more clearly denned 

 than in the <S . Underside : ground-colour paler than on the 

 upperside : markings similar ; no trace of a subbasal band on the 

 hind wing, the middle two spots of the subterminal series more or 

 less obsolescent. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen concolorous 

 with the ground-colour of the wings, a white spot at apex of the 

 antennae; beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen paler, marked 

 with white. 



Exp. S 2 52-62 mm. (2-07-2-43"). 



Eab. The Himalayas, Mussoorie to Sikhiin ; the hills of Assam ; 

 Burma and Tenasserim. 



472. Abisara neophron, Hewitson (Sospita), Ex, Butt. ii, 1861, Sos- 

 pita, pi. 1, fig. 3; de N. Butt. Ind.ii, 1886, p. 821; Moore 

 (Sospita), Lep. Ind, v, 1901-1903, p. 79, pi. 400, figs. 1, 



la-id, j 2 ■ 



<$ 2 • Terra en of hind wing with a long tail at apex of vein 4, 

 the portion above it prominently emarginate. Upperside brown 

 varying in tint, but generally paler in the $ than in the S • 

 Fore wing with a comparatively broad oblique 

 white band from middle of costa to near 

 apex of vein 1 above the tornal angle, nar- 

 rowed posteriorly ; beyond this an ill-defined 

 narrow, somewhat more erect, pale dusky- 

 white fascia from costa to dorsal margin, 

 curving slightly round the tornal termina- 

 tion of the inner broader band ; an inner 

 and an outer slender abbreviated subter- 

 minal line extending in the 2 from vein 1 

 to vein 4, shorter in the S . Hiud wing: 

 a postdiscal sinuous, ill-defined, broad trans- 

 verse fascia, paler than the ground-colour, 

 bordered on the inner and outer sides by 

 very obscure lunular dull whitish lines, followed by tw 7 o slender 

 pure white subterminal broken lines that in interspaces 4 and 5 

 are bordered inw 7 ardly by large jet-black spots ; these spots divided 

 by a conspicuous ferruginous line along vein 5 ; the cilia and apex 

 of tail, and in some specimens the apex of wing and the costal 

 margin, narrowly snow-white. Underside similar, with similar 

 markings, but the ground-colour much paler, especially on the 

 basal halves of the wings, the markings more clearly defined and 

 broader ; on the hind wing the white lines bordering the post- 

 discal broad fascia have a purplish tinge, and in interspace 1 there 

 are two inner obscure subterminal triangular black spots. Antennae 

 brown, ringed with white ; head, thorax and abdomen pale brown ; 

 beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen more or less whitish. 

 Exp. 6 2 50-58 mm. (1-97-2-29"). 



Fig. 90. 

 Abisara neophron, $ , 



