AS OTA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
undulate line and two white spots at the cell-end. Hindwing at the cell-end with a black spot, a longitudinal 
spot below vein 2, a postmedian row from behind the cell as far as towards the anal angle, and with whi¬ 
tish, small lunae behind it. Nilgiri Mountains, Canara, to the north as far as Poona and Bombay; not 
known from Ceylon. 
A. paliura Swinh. (28 c) flies farther to the north. Forewing dark dust-grey, suffused with grey, with paliura. 
a large, wedge-shaped, white proximal macula extending from the base to behind the cell-end and in 
rays almost to the margin. Hindwing white with a rather narrow distal band and dark spots in the disc. 
In the interior of China and West China as far as Mupin, thus to the border of the palearctic region; from 
May till July apparently very common. A specimen before me from the Collection Bang-Haas is labelled from 
,,Japan“, but I nowheres find the occurrence in this country corroborated, at least not for the large islands. 
A. canaraica Moore greatly resembles paliura, but it mainly differs by the forewing showing at the canaraica. 
lower cell-angle an oblong, white spot instead of the large, wedge-shaped spot of paliura extending to the 
base. South India. 
A. heliconia. Of this very common butterfly distributed over a great part of the Indian region more 
than 30 forms have been described. As the typical heliconia L. (= sylvandra Stoll., sylvandra and heliconia heliconia. 
Hbn., doryca Btlr., monycha Pag.). I consider the form occurring in the Moluccas, Salomons Islands and 
the Bismarck Archipelago, where Linne found a specimen from Amboina. Such specimens, considering the 
great variability of this form, correspond the best to the original description and to Stoll's figure of 
sylvandra in Cramer’s ,,Papillons exof iques“. A characteristic mark in all the heliconia- forms is the broad, 
white, wedge-shaped spot from the base of the forewing and the white liinclwing with more or less dark 
greyish-brown margins. The white, wedge-shaped spot of the forewing is often slightly bent round like a 
hook, as for instance in the continental specimens extending to the south as far as Tenasserim and to the 
east as far as Hongkong, where I very often met with the butterfly. This form is clavata (= heliconia Esp. clavata. 
nec L., sylvandra Wkr. nec Cr., monycha Moore nec Or., venalba Swinh. nec Moore) (28 d). The unciform 
bend of the wedge-shaped stripe on the forewing is created by a rather constant indenture of its lower mar¬ 
gin shortly before the end. The dorsal spots of the abdomen are almost invariably rather small and do not 
form any real transverse bands as in many other forms with which clavata might otherwise be confounded. 
The blackish-brown marginal band on the hindwing is mostly indented on the veins, sometimes the median 
and submedian are all white. On the under surface the black, postmedian spots of the hindwings are some¬ 
times combined to a black band, and the white area on the forewing is sometimes much larger than above, 
as for instance according to Jordan in specimens from Hongkong. — dicta Btlr. (= monycha Hmps. nec Or.) dicta . 
(28 d) from Borneo is very similar to lanceolata (28 e), but it differs by the orange-yellow, black-spotted basal 
spot of the forewing; besides the white cuneiform streak of the forewing is narrower, and the hindwings 
have narrower margins. •—- extensa Rothsch. is a dicta-form brought from the Kina-balu by Waterstradt, similar externa. 
to clavata, with a broader spot of the forewing and a narrow band of the hindwing. — nicobarica Swinh. nicobarica. 
from the Nicobars differs from the typical dicta by the two distal black clots in the orange-yellow basal 
area of the forewing, which flow together and thus terminate the yellow basal spot with a black band. 
Jordan mentions a specimen with a white-striped basal half of the forewing. — venalba Moore nec Swinh. venalba. 
(= monycha Hmps. p. p.). The median stripe of the forewing is triangular with a sinuous distal margin, 
the veins in the costal part as well as the submedian white; the width of the submedian white line varies 
considerably. The distal band of thc_hindwing extends almost to the anal angle and is crossed by white 
veins; vein 2 is particularly broad white; beside the two black spots in the cell many a specimen shows 
faint traces of two more, postmeclian black spots on the veins 2 and 5. Andamans. Jordan takes this form 
to be a species of its own, owing to structural differences in the antennae. — antennalis Rothsch. likewise antennalis. 
exhibits structural differences in the antennae, but otherwise it most exactly resembles the two following 
species. From dohertyi Rothsch. (28 e) it differs by the middle spots on the abdominal rings being only very 
faintly transverse-oval or cpiite roundish, whereas in dohertyi in the $ they are much more broadly diffused 
and sometimes extend to the stigmata. Celebes. — dohertyi Rothsch. (28 c) differs from venalba as mentioned dohertyi. 
just above, and from the very similar albivena Wkr., it is distinguished by the costal margin being cpiite 
straight from the base as far as behind the middle. Forewing with white lines, the white lines between the 
median and submedian broader than in albivena. The black band of the liinclwing shaped as in venalba , 
but somewhat narrower. It occurs together with antennalis and albivena in Celebes, and in spite of certain 
structural differences in the antennae it is scarcely of a different species. — enganensis Rothsch. resembles dicta enyancnsis 
(28 cl), but the basal half of the costa is jet-black, the 3 black basal dots at the costa scarcely recognizable, 
the veins of the forewing not with white lines, the white longitudinal stripe of the forewing wedge-shaped as 
in dicta, and between the veins 2 and 3 indented as in clavata, the marginal band of the liinclwing as broad 
as in dicta. Engano. — natunensis Rothsch. has its head, thorax, abdomen, and base of the forewing as in natunensis 
clavata, but the black, small dots on the thorax much smaller. The white median stripe of the forewing 
above reduced to a small, oblong spot at the lower cell-end; the marginal band of the liinclwing as in dicta. 
