AMATHUSIIN. 203 
STICHOPHTHALMA CAMADEVA (Plate 158, figs. 1, la, d ?). 
Morpho (Thaumantis) Camadeva, Westwood, Cabinet of Oriental Entomology, p. 9, pl. 4, figs. 1, 2 
(1848). 
Thaumantis Camadeva, Westwood, Trans, Ent. Soc. Lond. 1856, p. 177 ; id. Doubleday and Hewitson, 
Gen. D. Lep. p. 377, pl. 55, fig. 2 (1851). 
Stichophthalma Camadeva, Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of India, ete. i. p. 309, fig. 9 (1883). 
Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 204, pl. 65, ¢ (1887) ; dd. ii. p. 184, pl. 30 (1889). 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside. Forewing with the basal area rich ochreous-brown, 
the outer area purpurescent lilacine-grey, and traversed by a discal series of small 
round blackish spots, followed by a row of quadrate sagittate-spots, which latter 
have their outer angle dilated and extending along the vein to the margin, and then 
by a submarginal row of continuous lunules, the upper end of each series being 
broadly dilated at the apex. Hindwing with the basal area rich dark ochreous-brown, 
the outer area purpurescent-black, traversed by a submarginal row of large broad pur- 
_purescent lilacine-grey biconical spots, and a marginal narrow lunular band ; basal 
glandular tuft pale ochreous. Cilia pale ochreous. Underside rich brownish-ochreous ; 
crossed by a subbasal and a medial slender black sinuous line, the former generally 
being inwardly-bordered by pale olivescent-ochreous, and the latter outwardly-bor- 
dered by a whitish fascia, followed by a dark brown speckled-edged lunular fascia ; 
the disc crossed by a row of red ocelli, five on each wing, each being centred with a 
white lunule, and having a black outer ring ; beyond are two submarginal ill-defined 
brown lines, the outer line sometimes being more or less broad, and both ending at 
the anal angle in a black speckled streak, the outer streak much dilated. Body 
beneath, legs, and palpi brownish-ochreous ; antenne dark brown, 
Female. Upperside as in the male, with the marginal markings broader. Un- 
derside as in the male. 
Expanse, 5 to 6 inches. 
Hasirat.—Sikkim; Assam; Khasia Hills; Cachar ; Manipur. 
Distripution.—‘‘Common in Sikkim, in June and July” (Mr. de Nicéville, J. A. S. 
Bengal, 1885, 2). Mr. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 333) records it as not uncommon, 
in Sikkim, in suitable localities, from May or June to October. I found it not un- 
common by the river at Choongtong, at 2500 feet, in July, but difficult to take in 
good condition, as it flies so close to the ground among thick vegetation that it is 
not easy to get a clear stroke of the net.” Major H. H. Godwin-Austen—who 
captured several specimens in the Jatinga Valley, N. Cachar Hills, during his Survey 
operations—noted that “‘ it affects the openings in forests ; having a lopping lazy sort 
of flight, flying about quite low down among the brushwood, during April, just after 
the rains set in.’ Mr. Wood-Mason (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 353), found it ‘ very 
common in the forests near Silcuri in Cachar, during May ; others also being taken 
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