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dark caataneous and becoming obsolete fit apex ; posterior wings with two pale fascia? as on anterior wings, 

 but curved and wider apart, the outer fascia containing three? apical black spots surrounded with whitish and 

 separated by the Bubeostal nervulos, and with two smaller spots near anal angle ; a pale and darkly bordered 

 Bulrniarginnl fascia as on anterior wings, but which from apex of upper median nervule (where the outer 

 margin is obtusely angulated) to anal an^le is again outwardly bordered with paler coloration. 



Female. Wings generally much paler in hue than in the male; anterior wings with a distinct 

 subapieal transverse subviolaceous or whitish fascia, and with the suhmar^inal linear fascia distinct as 

 beneath; posterior wings with the spots and faKciat, both above and beneath, as on underside of male;* 

 the subapieal pale fascia on anterior wings being broader beneath than above. 



Exp. wings, ^ 42 to 44 millim ; 9 40 to 44 millim. 



Hah.— Andaman Islands; Port Blair (MooreM — Malay Peninsula ; Province Welle&ley (colls, Dist. 

 and Saiier) ; Sungei Ujong (Dnrnford — coll. Disk) ; Malacca (Biggs, coll. Diet, — Pinwill, Brit. Mus.) ; 

 Singapore (Kerr — coll, Dist.)— Sumatra.— Java (Brit. Mus.)— Borneo ; Sandakan < Fryer— coll. Dist.)— 

 East Africa; Zambesi (coll. Hewits.) ; Nyassa (coll, Dist.). 



The females of this species vary considerably in the size and distinctive character of the 

 pale subapieal fascia to the anterior wings, The most strongly marked or albinio specimens in 

 my collection are from Province Wellesley, whilst the most nielanic forms I possess are from 

 Malacca and North Borneo. Consequently, were I to theorise from the specimens now before me, 

 I should consider the species to increase in melanism in an easterly direction! & conclusion which 

 actual facts would probably contradict The specimens figured are from Province Welle si ey. 



The most interesting fact in connection with the geographical distribution of this species 

 is its presence, unmodified and distinct, in Eastern Africa. The late Mr- Hewitson received it 

 from the Zambesi, and subsequently it reached my hands contained in a small collection made 

 in the neighbourhood of Lake Nyaasa. 



B. Posterior win<}& not prominently antfidated. 



3, Abisara haquinus. (Tab. XVHL, fig. 13 s .) 



Papilio Iltiquinn*, Fabricins, Ent. Syst. hi. 1, p. 55. n. 160 (1798}. 



Knmiif Drupmli, Horaf. Cat. Lap. E.I.O. t. 2, f, 3 t 3<i (1838) ; Boisd, 5p. Ge*n. i. t. 7, f. 2 (18811). 

 Atdsartt hatptinm, Btitl. Cat. Pabr. Lep. p* 137, u. 2 (1869) ; Trooa. Linn. Soc. ser, 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 545, 

 n. 8 (1877), 



Vnjrilft haqiunn.t T Kh-by, Cat. Dium. Lep. p. 28C t n. 2 U871>. 



Malo. Wings above dark purplish-brown ; anterior wings with a subapieal pale and somewhat 

 ochraceous fascia ; apical portion of the nervules in both wings paler. Wings beneath much paler than 

 above, the discal areas reddish ; anterior wings with a curved pale fascia on upper portion of cell and 

 immediately beneath the subcostal nervule, a subapieal palu oehraceous fascia as above, and with the 

 following bluish markings more or leas spotted with black, rh. : — an oblique spot reaching apex of cell, two 

 black spots beyond cell connected by a bluish lunnle, above which are some small black spots divided by the 

 subcostal nervttles ; these are outwardly followed by a straight series of about four spots (the lowest situate 

 above the first median nervule), two on each sido of the second median nervule, and one on inner side and 

 at base of third median nervule ; a subtnarginal series of linear pale continuous lunules becoming obsolete 



* Ry an accident, the fi^ur* of the fonmle hern u'wn has been n-nrWr"! innxaet; tlins ih« posterior wings above 

 do not possess two contipnons ibnejil fascia*, but shonld bo an corroctly shown beneath. The sabmarginal spots should 

 bo ftR sbown on the underside, sav<? tfuu thn in-fit Idrit-k spot between the subcostal nervule* 1ms been there omitted. 



f Tliin habitat has not been certified by Wood-Mason and do Niceville in their eimmcmtion of Andaman Rliopalocem. 



