SARIBIA; ABISARA. By Dr. C. Altrivillitts. 
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B. Hindwing with a round anal angle and angled or tailed only at vein 4. The footstalk of veins 5 and 7 of 
the hindwing is always shorter than vein 6 and rarely as long as vein 7. Vein 8 at the rise of the precosta! 
vein far away from the discoeellular. 2. Abisara. 
1. Genus: Saribia Btlr. 
Forewing with a curved costal margin, an almost straight border and obtuse apex. Hindwing somewhat 
extended and easily recognizable by the two small tails. Only one species. 
S. tepahi Bsd. (61 a). Forewing above brown with two little distinct, light grey, postmedian transverse iepah 
lines, beneath reddish-brown, two transverse streaks in the cell and two postmedian transverse lines whitish; 
an antemarginalblack spot encircled by white in 6, and an interrupted, fine transverse line. Hindwing above brown 
with 5 large marginal spots proximally bordered by yellow bows, of which those in 1 c, 3, 4 and 5 are blackish 
and that in 2 reddish-brown, beneath reddish-brown with the same marginal spots as above and besides with 3 white 
spots in the cell and a white discal line broken angularly in the areas 2 and 3. Madagascar, in the forests. 
2. Genus: Abisara Fldr. 
This genus which is sufficiently characterized by the marks stated in the review occurs also in South 
Asia. In the Ethiopian species the forewing usually has an eye-spot in the area 6 and the hindwing two coherent 
eye-spots in 4 and 5, close at the margin. Comp. Vol. I, p. 254, and Vol. IX, p. 779. 
The species may, as is shown in the review, be divided into two groups deviating by their markings 
and shape of the wings. 
R e v i e w of the Species. 
I. Wings above brown, with a conjoint, broad, white transverse band. The eye-spots of the areas 4 and 5 
of the hindwing also above well developed, with yellow rings. Hindwing between the veins 3 and 4 with 
a small tail of about 5 mm length, being white at the tip. Eyes bare. Sexes similarly coloured and marked. 
A. The white transverse band does not quite reach the costal margin of the forewing, vein 12 at most, and 
on the hindwing it does not reach the border of area 6. 
a. Basal part of both wings above dark brown and distinctly defined towards the white transverse 
band. The white transverse band of about 5 mm width at the proximal margin and costal margin 
of the hindwing, posteriorly sharply tapering off in a triangular shape. Forewing with an eye-spot 
in area 6. A. gerontes. 
p. Basal part of both wings above blackish-grey, indistinctly defined towards the white transverse 
band particularly on the hindwing. The white transverse band very broad and distally rounded 
off, at the proximal margin of the forewing of a width of about 8 mm. Forewing without an eye-spot. 
A. delicata. 
B. The white transverse band reaches the costal margin of the forewing, and on the hindwing the margin 
in area 6. 
a. Fore wing above without a white subapical band. A. deivitzi. 
(3. Forewing on both sides with a narrow, white subapical band extending at least from vein 8 to vein 
4, sometimes, however, to the posterior angle. A. rogersi. 
II. Wings above lighter or darker brown without a conjoint, broad, white transverse band. Hindwing at vein 
4 only sharply angled or lobated. Both wings beneath with a white discal and a white submarginal line; 
the latter sometimes indistinct on the forewing. Sexes differently coloured and marked. 
A. The middle discoeellular (= the transverse vein betAveen the veins 5 and 6) of the hindwing shorter 
than the costal margin of the discoeellular. Eyes bare. 
a. Forewing on both sides with a yellow-ringed eye-spot in the area 6. 
*. d unknown to me. — $. ForeAving above with two broad white transverse bands, one of which 
extends from the middle of the costal margin to vein 3, the other before the apex between 
veins 3 and 7. A. tantalus. 
**. $. Wings above unicolorously blackish-brown; hindwings with a violet lustre; both Avithout 
any mealy spots, but the hindwing with a hair-pencil in the discoeellular. — $ unknown to me. 
A. intermedia. 
(3. Forewing above without a spot in the area 6 or only with a black, not light-ringed spot. •— Forewing 
above unicolorously dark violettish-brown with a jet-black velvety spot before the apex in the areas 
4 to 6. Hindwing above Avithout any eye-spots, but with a round, bright blue spot between veins 
3 and 5, and with a black mealy spot (coA T ered by the foreAving) before the discoeellular in the areas 
5 and 7 to 9. — $. Hindwing above unicolorous with eye-spots in 4 and 5. A. rutherfordi. 
B. The middle discoeellular of the hindwing longer than the costal margin of the discoeellular. Eyes finely 
haired. Both wings above with the usual eye-spots. Forewing of the $ Avithout a velvety spot. 
A. talantus. 
