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ASOTA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
eyens. 
indica. 
con/inis. 
reducta. 
nebulosa. 
biformis. 
discolor. 
intermissa. 
sumbana. 
i nversa. 
on ustcr.. 
andamana. 
macrosticta. 
a cud a. 
darmnia. 
orbona. 
ochrealis. 
discoidalis. 
signif icons. 
base of the forewing; the veins of the forewing are not white, except the submedian, the_ spot at the cell- 
end is very small. From Java. The butterfly is common; it flies all the year round and is scared up from 
the bushes at the skirts of forests, into which it settles down again after having flown some metres. In 
the port of Hongkong it frequently resorts to ships, settling down on ropes and sails. 
A. egens Wkr. Unicolorously yellow, the veins lighter, the base of the forewing mostly dotted black, 
under surface in the basal half spotted brightly black. Java and Bali, as well as Palawan as far as the 
Linchots. — indica Jorcl. (— egens Btlr. nec T Ylcr. (27 f) is the form distributed from Northern India to 
Formosa in the east, and Singapore, Penang in the south. It differs from typical egens by the hindwing 
beneath showing 5 or 6 spots (in the typical egens from Java only 1 or 2). — confinis Rothsch. has the wings 
less striped yellow than egens. From the Linchots and Mindanao. — reducta Rothsch. from Palawan and 
Mindoro has the dark spots beneath very much reduced. — nebulosa Btlr. (= egens Snell, nec Wkr.) from 
the Sunda Islands, has the veins of the forewings above less brightly streaked white than India, but bet¬ 
ween the veins there appear distinct dark stripes, and the black spots on the hind wings beneath are large; 
behind the cell-apex of the forewing there often appears above a light spot. The $ is less light yellow than 
indica, the veins less white. — biformis Rothsch. from Celebes entirely resembles nebulosa in the male, but 
the spots of the hindwings are beneath very small, the anal spot is often quite absent; the hindwing is 
not darkened in the marginal area; the $ has smaller spots beneath than that of nebulosa, the two posterior 
ones on the hindwing are quite absent, as well as the dark stripes on the hindwing. — discolor Rothsch., 
likewise from Celebes and sometimes flying together with the preceding, has a darkened margin of the wings 
above and on the forewing no distinct white lines on the veins. —- intermissa Rothsch., from the Lesser 
Sunda Islands, shows above a brownish distal part of the wings and brown colouring along the margin, vein 
5 and the submedian fold; the fold itself is whitish-yellow, the hindwing one-coloured. The $ has no dark 
brown scaling, the black dots at the base of the forewing are very small, sometimes reduced in number; the veins 
are just a little lighter than the ground-colour. -— sumbana Rothsch. (= egens Pag. nee Wkr.) differs in the 
<$ from intermissa by the veins of the forewings not being striped whitish-yellow, by the broader, double, dark 
postcellular stripe and the broader, brownish apical part of the cell; the $ like that of discolor with traces 
of dark streaks. Sumba. — inversa Rothsch. from Timor, Wetter and Letti, is extremely similar to the pre¬ 
ceding form, the forewings also striped dark, the yellow areas more tan-coloured, often dusted with dark. 
There is mostly a dark spot in the middle of the cell, beside the normal basal dots. The veins not lighter. 
Beneath the two black spots of the forewing like in intermissa and sumbana, the hinclwing with 1 to 3 very 
small black spots. The $ more unicolorous. — onusta Weym. (— nebulosa Snell.) has the forewing dusted 
quite dark, in the $ this brown tint is somewhat less extensive than in the $ and lighter, but always 
much darker than in the $$ of the other forms. Nias. — andamana Moore has the black dot in the middle 
of the cell of the forewing above always indicated and besides a dark spot at the cell-end; the black spots 
on the hindwings beneath very much reduced. Andamans. — macrosticta Rothsch. (27 g) may be regarded 
as the transition to the following, being also of a monotonous yellow, with slight dark shades; but the black 
basal spots are larger than in all the other forms. Engano. — The species is somewhat less common than 
most of the Asota. 
A. avacta Stvinh. (= semipars Snell.) (27 g). Above unicolorously yollt-coloured, at the base of the 
forewing 5 very large black dots. Under surface with a very dark brown apical half of the forewing and 
a similar, large spot in the middle of the costa of the hindwing. Batjan. 
A. darsania Druce (27 f, misprinted in clarsiana), described from Celebes, according to Rothschild also 
from Batjan and Halmaheira, in my collection from Obi, has unicolorously greyish-brown forewings with a 
sharply defined, orange base dottod black, and a yellow hindwing with a greyish-brown marginal band. 
A. orbona Voll. (= significans Kirby) is likewise yolk-coloured; but on the forewing there are beside 
the black basal dots 2 ovals surrounded by small dark nebulous spots distinctly prominent below and behind 
the cell. Typical orbona come from the Moluccas. The ovals below and behind the cell are ochreous, the 
dark streaks bordering on them and situate between them are very bright, sometimes also very much reduced 
in number, the hindwing, as a rule quite unicolorous, but it also occurs with a broad, black marginal band. 
The $$ usually exhibit minor dark streak spots than the <$<$. —• In ochrealis Stvinh. (= egens Ribbe) (27 g) 
the oval spots are almost of the ground-colour, but the secondary sexual swelling above the middle of the 
proximal margin of the forewing is lighter. From the Key Islands; enormously variable, sometimes with 
thick, brown internerval streaks, a darkened apical part on both wings etc. — discoidalis Rothsch. (= orbona 
Pag. nec Voll.) (27 g) from Ceram and Amboina shows whitish discal ovals, between which brown colouring 
is distinctly prominent. — significans Wkr. (— orbona Ribbe, orbonis Swinh). deviates from typical orbona 
by the two spots of the forewings being ochreous and the black spots of the hindwing beneath not being 
