ABISARA. TAXILA. 495 



as on the upperside, the latter more clearly defined ; the transverse 

 pale bands on both wings very broad and slightly sinuous. — 

 2 . Upperside : ground-colour paler than in the S • Fore wing : a 

 broad discal outwardly angulated fascia, anteriorly white, poste- 

 riorly shaded with maroon ; its inner margin anteriorly oblique 

 and sharply defined, posteriorly sinuous, diffuse ; a postdiscal 

 similar but straighter and narrower fascia ; followed by less clearly 

 defined inner and outer subterminal whitish lines ; the anterior 

 portions of the discal and postdiscal bands, more or less coalescing 

 along the veins, form a conspicuous white patch. Hind wing as 

 in the <$ , but the transverse pale bands more clearly defined. 

 Underside similar to the upperside, but all the markings broader 

 and more clearly defined. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen in 

 both sexes as in echerius. 



Exp. S 2 52-56 mm. (2-04-2-2"). 



Hab. The Andamans. 



Genus TAXILA. 



Taxila, Doubleday, List Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. 2, 1847, p. 2 ; de N. Butt, 

 hid. ii, 1886, p. 316 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 90. 



Type, T. haquinus, Fabr., from the Malayan Subregion. 



Range. Indo-Malayan Region. 



S 2 • Fore wing broadly triangular ; costa arched, apex blunt ; 

 termen straight in <$ , somewhat convex in 2 ; dorsum straight ; cell 

 closed; veins 6 and 7 very closely approximate, upper discocellular 

 therefore obsolete, middle and lower subequal, concave ; vein 3 

 from before lower apex of cell, 4 from apex ; 10 and 11 free, the 

 latter often anastomosed with apex of 12. Hind wing pear-shaped ; 

 costa slightly arched ; termen strongly curved, margin in S almost 

 even, in 2 scalloped, angulate, dentate or produced at apex 

 of vein 4 ; apex and tornus rounded, dorsum curved ; cell closed 

 very short, barely one-third the length of the wing ; vein 3 

 from before lower apex of cell, 4 from apex, 6 and 7 variable, some- 

 times stalked. Antennae long, over half length of fore wing ; club 

 gradual, fusiform ; palpi very short, somewhat compressed, third 

 joint very minute ; eyes naked. 



Key to the forms of Taxila. 



a. Underside : hind wing with two prominent sub- 



apical spots as in Abisara T. burnii, p. 495. 



b. Underside : hind wing without such spots. 



a'. Underside : fore wing with a prominent 



plumbeous streak obliquely across cell T. thuisto, p. 497. 



b'. Underside : fore wing without such streak .... T. haquinus, race 



fasciata, p. 497. 



475. Taxila burnii, de Niceville, Jour. Bonih. N. H. Soc. ix, 1895, 

 p. 266, pi. N, fig. 9 2 5 Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 93, 

 pi. 404, figs. 2, 2 a, $. 



" 2 • Upperside : both wings light ferruginous, with all the 



