£ 63 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



EXOTIC GENERA ALLIED TO APATURA. 



Various species of Apafura, brown, green, or blue, with 

 orange-tawny, or brown and orange-tawny, markings, are found 

 throughout Central Asia, as far as Japan, where insects almost 

 identical with the European A. ilia and its varieties occur. 

 Most of the other Apaturce also unmistakably resemble those 

 of Europe. Several species are found in Northern India, one 

 of which, A. namouna, Doubleday, resembles A. iris, but is of a 

 brilliant blue in the male, instead of being shot with purple, 

 and has a satiny-white under side, with an oblique tawny band 

 towards the margins of the wings. A. chevana (Moore) has a 

 very similar under side, but is brown above (though with a 

 purple gloss when fresh), with white markings like an Athyma, 

 to which genus Moore originally referred it. Most of the other 

 Indian species are much smaller, and duller coloured ; being 

 dull brown, or only suffused with dull purple. 



The genus Chlorippe, Boisduval, includes the South American 

 species allied to Apatura. The hind-margin of the fore-wings 

 is more concave, and the hind-wings are longer, and much 

 narrowed to the anal angle, which is sometimes pointed, and 

 is sometimes preceded by a slight tooth. The species are 

 rather smaller than in Apatura, and the males are purple, 

 with white or tawny spots towards the tips, or banded with 

 blue, green, tawny, or white; the females are brown, with 

 white bands or spots, and tawny markings ; in some species 

 the under surface of the hind-wings is of a most beautiful 

 silvery white. 



The North Amencan representatives of Apatura, which are 

 i laced in the genus Doxocopa, Hiibner, are brown and tawny 

 Butterflies, measuring two or two and a half inches across 

 the wings, with white spots on the fore-wings, and sometimes 

 a sub-marginal row of spots on the hind-wings. 



