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ISMENE. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
of the forewing and the fringes of the hindwings are broadly yellowish-red, and from the cell to the hind-margin 
a broad curved velvety spot extends. Under surface similar to that of consobrina (167 a). From Java, Sumatra, 
oedipus. and Palawan. — Oedipus Elw. <b Edw. is larger, the hair on the mesothorax is yellowish-brown instead of steel- 
ataphus. green; it originates from Sula and may be a distinct species. — ataphus Wts. (= oedipodea Mr. nec Swns.) 
occurring from Sikkim to Ceylon and Pegu in Indo-China has above in the proximal portions of the wings a 
fur of hair exhibiting in a certain light a magnificent bluish-green lustre, and the $ entirely resembles the $ 
tuckeri. except the absence of the scent-spot. — tuckeri Elw. (167 c) is described according to a from Tavoy; exactly 
like oedipodea, but with an enormous scent-spot filling almost the whole basal half of the fore wing; it is probably 
only a local form of oedipodea, since just the scent-spots vary much within a species and may even be absent 
athena. in some specimens. — athena Fruhst., from Siam, chiefly differs in the under surface of the $ being more abundantly 
striped violet and less red than in North-Indians. — Larva above black, beneath yellowish-green; across the 
dorsum a double greyish-blue line at the sides of which there are yellow guttiform spots in the black areas. 
Head fox-coloured with a thick black star on the frons. On Combretum latifolium. — Pupa dingy reddish- 
white with scanty black dots. The imagines are not rare and are easily beaten out from the bamboo-hedges. 
lysima. — A close ally of this and the following species is also I. lysima Swh. being unknown to me, from the Key Is., 
recognisable by orange-red bands beneath; the species is not before me. 
etelka. I. etelka Heiv. (= iteka Hew. <b Tab.) (167 c) is about the largest Ismene without a green under 
surface, only yet attained by certain forms of jama. Above dark chestnut-brown; the head, a subcostal stripe 
on the forewing, and the fringes of the hindwings broadly fiery red. Beneath the wings are intensely suffused 
with fiery red, particularly the anal half of the hindwing. Borneo. 
lusca. I. lusca Swh. (167 b, c) is somewhat smaller than etelka which it resembles otherwise very much ; 
the anal area is of a purer and more fiery red. From South Celebes. 
phul. 1. phul Mab. (? = tolo Plotz) is said to originate from the Philippines; tolo Mab. is reported from 
Celebes. Mabille in his enumeration of the Hesperidae known (Wytsman’s Genera Insectorum XVII, p. 89) 
does not mention phul itself any more, so he has probably cancelled it himself. Neither does Semper know 
it from the Philippines. — tolo is described to be dark brownish-red, the forewing with a large black basal macula, 
almost as in oedipodea\ the costa before this macula orange; hindwing dark brown with an orange liindniarginal 
area, traversed by a hair-stripe on vein 1. Beneath the forewing is dark red-brown, the middle proximal portion 
whitish. Hindwing likewise dark brown with a blue reflection; the whole liindniarginal area of a bright orange- 
red. Celebes. 
jaina. 1 . jama Mr. (167 d). In the typical form from North India only somewhat smaller than etelka which 
is probably only the Borneatic. representative of jaina. Beneath not so burning fiery red, but somewhat paler 
vasundhara. and duller; head above set with a black fur which is much more scantily intermixed with red hairs. — vasundhara 
Fruhst., from Assam, is almost as large as etelka which it also resembles by a more fiery red on the darker 
formosana. ground-colour, but the hindwing is lighter in the disc. — formosana Fruhst. ( = ataphus Mats.) are much smaller 
than Sikkim-specimens, the basal areas of all the wings are covered with long dark brownish-red instead of 
blackish-brown hair; the costal groove is more abundantly filled with red; $ above distally^brownish-violet, 
margana. towards the base with greenish-grey hair; Formosa. — margana Fruhst. is as light in the ground-colour as typical 
fergussonii. jaina from Sikkim, but it has a much larger scent-spot of the From Siam; based upon 1 q. — fergussonii 
Nic. (167 d), from the Nilgliiri Mts., differs from North-Indian jaina in the absence of the distinctly defined 
excellens. whitish cellular spots on the forewing beneath; it also lacks the bent row of light subapical spots. — excellens 
Hpffr. is the largest and most beautiful form of jaina with an enormous scent-spot of the $$; beneath the white 
brightening in the anal portion of the fore wing extends in a stripe almost to the costa, and the yellowish red 
of the hindwing is more confined to spots and bands. Celebes. 
anadi. I. anadi Nic. (171 i), from Sikkim and the Ivhasia Hills, is in the male very similar to harisa (167 a), 
but smaller, the forewing in the disc lighter, the hindwing without the broad yellow anal portion, only the 
fringes being yolk-coloured, but the apex of the hindwing broadly golden yellow. The $ is said to differ 
from the <$ in being larger and darker, and the hindwing is not broadly light ochreous as in the <$, but coloured 
like the rest of the under surface. 
vasutana. I. vasutana Mr. (167 c) entirely resembles septentrionis (Vol. I, pi. 86 f) beneath; above the <$ is 
almost like tuckeri but without the scent-spot; the $ has on the black forewing, which shows a green 
reflection towards the base, two comma-shaped small discal spots; the latter may also be indistinct or even 
quite absent. Sikkim. In Assam the species also occurs, but its ground-colour is darker, the upper surface 
more abundantly covered with red-brown hair, and the white spots beneath are more indistinct; this is the 
rahita. Sikkim form raliita Fruhst. 
septentrio- I. septentrionis Fldr. ( = striata Hew.) (167 c). The (green) under surface is figured in Vol. I, pi. 86 f, 
nis - and the species has been dealt with there (p. 342). To the (palearctic) habitats mentioned there we may add 
Sikkim in the Indian Region, where the species is rather common. 
