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their entire course, sometimes only at their costal origin; before the apex a bluish-grey discoid spot and almost 
invariably also a distinct, dark, punctiform spot in the submedian fold before the margin; the $ is browner. 
Desribed from Coromandel; it occurs in nearly the whole of British India. — In Ceylon there occurs an intensely 
chrome-yellow form — ochripicta Mr. ■—- with very distinct dentate lines which may sometimes be veiy distinctly 
prominent (f. fasciata Mr.) and of a bright dark ferruginous colouring. Such specimens fly particularly near 
Kandy, where they are met with at night on the lanterns in the streets and even fly to the lamps on 
the terraces of the hotels of Lake Kandy. — In auriflua Mr. from Malabar, on the contrary, the blackish-brown 
dentate lines are more extinct, so that there are only yet 2 in the discal area of the forewing and one before 
the margin. — mutans Wkr. from Sikkim has the transverse stripes still more extinct so that only one 
through the centre of the wing is yet distinct and besides only the submarginal dentate line somewhat promi¬ 
nent. — This form is closely allied to permutafa Mr. from Bengal; it is somewhat smaller, the much paler 
yellow, the $ tinted reddish; on the hindwing only in the centre an extinct stripe. -— immutata Mr. from Nepal 
is allied to the Sikkim form {mutans), but on the forewing it has one subbasal transverse stripe and 3 through 
the disc, whilst the hindwing shows 2 discal dark lines, although they run somewhat differently from those 
in ochrvpicta from Ceylon. — discordans Btlr. from Calcutta, the of which is bright yolk-coloured, sometimes 
turning olive, the undulate lines distinct, the median and submarginal dentate stripes likewise bright and dark. 
—- alterata Mr. from Darjeeling is in the male oclireous-yellow, the band slightly undulate, purple brown, indis¬ 
tinctly defined. The median stripe dentate, of the discal parallel lines there are only traces; the $ is brown. -— 
gyra Swh. has distinct dark spots towards the margin of the forewing and the undulate distal line in the forewing 
is likewise distinct; from Belgaum. —- lucia Btlr., placed by Kjrby into Moore’s group Murlida, is according 
to H amps on merely a form of fabia inseparable from the type; it originates from Assam. — The-larva of jabia 
is deep dark red-brown, densely haired blackish, with longer and shorter tufts; each segment shows three double 
rows of white dots; on the -5th and 11th rings there is a series of red subdorsal spots. On different shrubs, on 
road-sides; the imagines are not rare. 
E. undata Blch. (= undifera Wkr.) (37 b) is very much like the preceding species, with a darker, 
often brownish ground-colour and 8 partly rather indistinct, parallel transverse lines of the forewing, which 
are more feebly continued also on the hindwing. Most of its forms are also smaller, browner, as dark as the 
brownest forms of the preceding. The marking, however, is rather similar, but owing to the brownish strewing 
the dark transverse lines are less prominent than in the bright golden yellow males of jabia. Still more forms 
have been distinguished than in jabia, known from different parts of India, but by no means always geographically 
bound to them, nor do the subordinate forms occur in the single districts of the range as the sole representa¬ 
tives of the species. For instance vinosa, subdita and variegata are all described from Jubbulpore. vinosa Mr. 
is brownish claret-coloured, the subbasal, curved transverse stripes, of which only the proximal one is distinct 
in our figure, are both complete like the two antemedian ones and the 4 through the disc; — subdita Mr. 
is quite similar, somewhat darker, but likewise claret-coloured, but the subbasal transverse stripes are removed 
more towards the base; — in variegata Mr. the subbasal transverse stripes are quite indistinct, but the centre 
of the wing is crossed by a thick, blackish, curved line. — cupreipennis Mr. described from Madras, from there 
as far as Trichina Pali (Trichinopolis), in some places the predominant form, has a pale copper-red upper surface, 
in the basal third of the £ foreAving several dark zigzag lines. -— affinis Mr. is rather a large form, much larger 
than vinosa, with a dark yellowish-brown colouring of the <$-, it resembles consimilis, but the median transverse 
lines of the forewing are confluent; from North India. — consimilis Mr. which it approaches the most, is some¬ 
what smaller, but reddish-grey, the darker, the $ paler; from Darjeeling. — similis Mr. is in both sexes cinnamon 
brown; from Calcutta. — decorata is in the male of a very bright colouring, ochreous-yellow, both Avings tra¬ 
versed by a great number of thick lines which are partly bright red-brown and expanded; from the Pend jab. — 
persimilis Mr. occurs near Calcutta like cupreipennis, but the upper surface in the $ is light yellowish-brown, 
the discal dentate lines are very faint, and the transverse double line is also indistinct. -— dissimilis Mr. from 
the North Western Himalaya (Deyra-dhun) is,coloured the same, but the subbasal, curved line is pale brown, 
the centre is traversed by a broader curved line, the 4 discal transverse lines are scarcely traceable or partly 
extinct. — - ignavus Swh., sujjusa Mr. and griseipennis Mr. are only slight deviations in the colouring; assimilis 
Mr. is also hardly separable from dissimilis, and likewise from the North Western Himalaya; <$ above greyish- 
broAvn. — hirsuta Sivh. from Khandalla, is rather a large form, yellow, with a yeiloAv collar, the wings suffused 
with red-broAvn so that the markings are less conspicuous. -— nigricans Mr. (= diabolica Swh.) is the darkest 
form, umber-brown, but the lines Avell recognizable, from Western India. — sinuata Mr. is pale claret-brown. 
The two lines next to the base of the forewing are hazy, dark, the 4 discal lines distinct, the proximal one of 
tlem is on the veins slightly confluent with the antemedian line; a large form nearing very much the typical 
undata-, from the Himalaya. -— caliginosa Mr. from Central India (Jubbulpore) is again more closely allied 
to nigricans, but the double line before the marginal part is remoA r ed more proximad, and the submarginal 
spots are sharply defined. ■— imbecilis Wkr. (= cinnamomea Mr.) is a uni-coloured lighter or darker cinnamon- 
coloured form from Canara and other parts of India, in which the double line before the marginal part is 
ochripicta. 
fasciata. 
auriflua. 
mutans. 
permutata. 
immutata. 
discordans. 
alterata. 
gyra. 
lucia. 
undata. 
vinosa. 
subdita. 
variegata. 
cupreipen¬ 
nis. 
affinis. 
consimilis. 
similis. 
decorata 
persimilis. 
dissimilis. 
ignavus. 
assimilis. 
hirsuta. 
nigricans • 
sinuata. 
caliginosa. 
imbecilis. 
