THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, 



No. 124. FEBRUARY 184?. 



VII. — Descriptions of some new species of the genus Gynautocera, 

 from Northern India. By Edward Doubleday, Assistant in 

 the Zoological Department of the British Museum, F.L.S. &c. 



[With a Plate.] 



Genus GYNAUTOCERA, Guerin. 

 Section Amesia, Hope. 



Gyn. Namouna. Alls omnibus fuliginosis, anticis punctis sex mi- 

 nutis pone cellulam albidis, posticis maculis disci czeruleis, mar- 

 gine externo linea alba cseruleaque profunda dentata notato. ? . 

 Exp. alar. 4 unc. vel 100 mill. 



Hab. India Septentrionali. 



Anterior wings fuscous black, with six minute white spots 

 edged with blue, placed between the nervules immediately be- 

 yond the cell. Posterior wings of the same colour, with four 

 blue spots placed transversely a little beyond the middle, two si- 

 milar spots at the end of the cell, of which the inner is pupiled 

 with white. Between the cell and the outer margin is a deeply 

 zigzag line, the outer angles upon the ends of the white slightly 

 bordered with blue, the inner between the nervules bright blue, 

 embracing a series of fine white spots ; anal angle gray. 



Below, black, all the wings bordered with white ; nervules of 

 anterior wings slightly, of posterior very distinctly bordered with 

 white. 



Head, thorax and abdomen black above, spotted with blue be- 

 low, the terminal segment of the last blue. Antennae and legs 

 blue. 



In the collection of the British Museum. 



The marginal band of the posterior wings very much resembles 

 that of the two common species of the genus Thais in form. 

 Ann. ^ Mag, N, Hist. Vol.^sdx. 6 



