ABISARA. 
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" Male. Fpperside : both wings and cilia dark brown. Fore wing with a straight even straw-yellow 
band commencing at the middle of the costa and almost reaching the inner angle, its lower 
portion narrower and slightly recui-vcd ; a pale brown submarginal line often bearing 
anteriorly two minnte yellow spots divided by the fourth subcostal nervule, often with two 
additional spots near the margin divided by the fifth snbcostal nervule, and the cilia 
bcyoud white. Hind wing with a pale brown curved discal band ; a series of siv marginal 
black spots inwardly defined with pale brown, and outwardly bearing a pure white dot, of 
which the two upper ones divided by the discoidal nervule are always largest, the next two 
divided by the second median nervule always smallest and often obsolete, the last two at the 
anal angle placed in the submcdian interspace always present. There is sometimes a seventh 
small spot without a white dot between the subcostal nervulcs. Underside : both wings paler 
throughout, but similarly marked, except that the hind wing has a faint subbasal line. 
" Female. Similarly marked to the male, but much paler, the discal band on the fore wing very 
variable in width and pure white or just tinted with palest yellow, and reaching the costa (in 
the male it does not reach it), wider anteriorly and tapering to a point posteriorly ; the wing 
broader, apex less produced, outer margin convex. Body concolorous with the wings both 
above and below, the cj-es with a pure white streak at the sides, the frontal tuft of the head also 
with a pure white streak on both sides ; the palpi pale brown ; the antenna; dark brown, 
annulated with white, the club with a white bar above near its tip. 
" Expanse, d' 1-9 to 2-4 ; 2 2-0 to 2-5 inches," (de NiceviUe, I. c.) 
Occurs at Moupin and Omei-shan, Western China, and at Ichang and 
Chaug-yang, Central China. 
In Chinese examples the central band on primaries is rather narrower 
than in typical specimens. According to de NiceviUe, A. fylla occurs 
throughout the Himalayas, Assam, Sylhet, Upper Burma, Upper Tenasserim, 
and Yunau. 
