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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...sinuous and submarginal macular band distinctly defined; outer borders washed with purpurescent-grey. F01'e'zuing with the discal white macular band and subapical spots as above. Hinditiing with the discal white intervening band tinged with pale olivescent. Expanse, 8 21%, 9 3 to 31% inches. HAB1TA'r.--South Andamans. This is a very rare species; one male and two females are in the Hewitsonian Collection, taken by the late Mr. Roepstorff, the male being placed as an example of E. Garuda. Other males and females are in the collections of Mr. Walter Rothschild and Mr. Grose-Smith. Adolias Jama, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iii. p. 431 (1866). Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 604; id. Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. i. p. 539 (1877). IMAGQ. Male. Upperside dark purpurescent umber-brown; cilia black; basal marks black-lined. F orewing with an inwardly-oblique transverse rather broad black inner-discal and a submarginal diffused fascia; an obscurely-defined upper discal series of very slender longitudinal white streaks decreasing from the costa (where the upper portions are broken and show their ends only) to the middle median, and there ending in two very small obliquely-opposed spots. Hindzving with a transverse rather broad black discal fascia and a narrow submarginal sinuous fascia. Underside pale brown, varying from paler umber to ochreous-brown; basal black-lined marks prominent. Forew/ing with a narrower and less-defined blackish submarginal fascia, and more prominently-defined upper discal white streaks than on the upperside; the inner fascia obsolescent. Hi-ndwing with narrower and much less obscurely-defined discal blackish fascia and submarginal dentate fascia. Body and palpi above dark brown; palpi and legs beneath pale brownish-white;...

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