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nearly straight ; costal vein extending to two-thirds the costal margin ; first sub- 

 costal veinlet emitted at about one-fourth before the end of the cell, second close 

 before the end of the cell, third at fully one-third beyond the end, fourth and fifth at 

 two-thirds ; discocellulars short, upper bent close to the subcostal, radials from the 

 angle and lower end; cell open; middle median veinlet beyond the opposite 

 discocellulars ; submedian straight. Hindwing triangularly-ovate, produced 

 posteriorly ; exterior margin convex anteriorly, scalloped ; abdominal margin 

 broadly grooved ; costal vein strongly arched from base of the subcostal ; precostal 

 vein excurved ; second subcostal veinlet emitted at one-fifth from below base of the 

 first, radial from close to lower subcostal ; cell open, Boihj robust ; thorax woolly ; 

 head hairy and tufted in front ; palpi obliquely porrected, approximate at the tip, 

 hairy above, densely scaled beneath, second joint projected half its length beyond the 

 eyes, third joint about one-fifth of the second, pointed at the apex ; antennae with a 

 rather long stout club ; eyes naked. 



Caterpillar. — Slug-shaped, surface minutely shagreened ; armed with two 

 lengthened erect divergent processes on the head and two short recumbent processes 

 on the anal segment. 



Chkysalis. — Somewhat boat-shaped, compressed laterally ; dorsum arched and 

 carinated ; head with two short divergent points. 



Egg. — " Large. Few. Hardly as high as wide ; ribs low, serrate, rather 

 numerous, not produced at the apex." 



Type. — P. Iris. 



POTAMIS AMBICA (Plate 191, fig. 1, la, b, c, d, e, S ? )■ 



Apatura Ambica, KoUav * in Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv., pt. 2, p. 431, pi. 8, fig. 3, 4, S (18^4). Moore, 

 Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Compy. i. p. 201 (1857); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 765. 



Apatura Namouna, Doubleday, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1845, p. 178, (J. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. 

 p. 50, pi. XX., fig. 91, S (1886). Staudinger. Lep. Exot. pi. 55, S (1885). 



Apatura Zanoa, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iv. Ap. pi. 1, fig. 7, 8, S (1869)— {variety). 



Apatura Blmvana, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 307. "Waterhouse's Aid, ii., pi. 127, f. 2(1882)— 

 {variety). 



Imago. Male. Upperside rich brownish-black, resplendently glossed in certain 

 lights with cobalt blue, except on the apex and the extreme outer margins of both 

 wings. Foreiving crossed by a discal white macular band composed of three 

 (sometimes four) more or less regularly superposed upper discal decreasing spots, 

 the upper one minute when present, and of three lower discal larger and more 



* Part 2 of vol. iv. of Hugel's Kaschmir is dated March, 1844, on its title page, and also on page 402— 

 not '' 1848," as erroneously quoted vvheu referred to. 



