. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. 490 nemeobid^e. before lower apex of cell, 4 from apex, 6 and 7 stalked. Antennae slender, slightly over half length of fore wing; club fusiform, narrow ; palpi very short, porrect, third joint short; eyes hairy. Key to the forms of Abisara. a. Hind wing terminal margin not concave or emarginate above vein 4 A. fylla, p. 490. b. Hind wing terminal margin concave or emar- ginate above vein 4. a. Upperside : ground - colour dull hair- brown. a2. Fore wing : discal oblique white fascia distinctly narrowing posteriorly, ex- tended to vein 1 A. neophron, p. 4
. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. 490 nemeobid^e. before lower apex of cell, 4 from apex, 6 and 7 stalked. Antennae slender, slightly over half length of fore wing; club fusiform, narrow ; palpi very short, porrect, third joint short; eyes hairy. Key to the forms of Abisara. a. Hind wing terminal margin not concave or emarginate above vein 4 A. fylla, p. 490. b. Hind wing terminal margin concave or emar- ginate above vein 4. a. Upperside : ground - colour dull hair- brown. a2. Fore wing : discal oblique white fascia distinctly narrowing posteriorly, ex- tended to vein 1 A. neophron, p. 491. b1. Fore wing : discal oblique white fascia not or very slightly narrowed pos- teriorly, not extended to vein 1 A. chela, p. 492. b'. Upperside : ground-colour purplish or maroon-brown. a2. Upperside fore wing without any white markings, or if present restricted to anterior portion of discal fascia A. echerius, p. 492. b2. Upperside fore wing with more or less conspicuous white markings. a3. Upperside fore wing with a preapical diffuse white patch Race kausumbi, p. 494. b3. Upperside fore wing with di«cal and postdiscal fasciae white anteriorly. Race bifasciata, p. 494. 471. Abisara fylla, Doubleday (Taxila), List Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. 2, 1847, p. 2 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 321 : Moore (Sospita), Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 78, pi. 399, figs. 1, 1 a-1 c, tf $ • S. Upperside rich dark brown. Fore wing with a cream- coloured even band from middle of costa to tornus, bent slightly inwards at each end; a subterminal transverse, very obscure, pale fascia ending anteriorly in a white dot and two subapical white dots. Hind wing : postdiscal and subterminal very obscure pale transverse fasciae; the latter with a superposed series of seven oval black spots, each with a white dot on the outer margin and inwardly pale-edged ; the preapical two and posterior two of these spots only clearly defined, the others obsolescent, the preapical two the larger. Underside duller brown ; th
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