LEPIDOPTEKA. 203 



c. d. ^ . Darjeeling. From Indian Collection, Expo- 

 sition Universelle at Paris, 1855. 



e.f. (^ ? . Darjeeling. From Messrs. Schlagint welt's 

 Collection. 



g. S • Java. From Mr. Argent's Collection. 



Apatura ParisaUs may be distinguished by its small size, and by 

 the uniform jet-black colour of the upper-side of the wings; its 

 under-side being varied with rich red-brown and chestnut, and with 

 a slight whitish macular fascia across the middle of the wings, and a 

 minute eye-spot near the anal angle. The female is dull-ferruginous ; 

 both upper and under-side with markings nearly similar to those of 

 the under-side of the male, and with a curved row of small white 

 dots near the apex of the fore-wings. Expanse of wings If to 

 nearly 2 inches. 



414. APATURA NAKULA, Moore. 



Apatura NaJcula, n. sp. — Female : TJppee-side dull pale reddish- 

 brown, darkest at the base : fore-wing with a broad transverse 

 whitish band from anterior to posterior margin ; two blackish reni- 

 form marks and a dot within discoidal cell ; a row of five small white 

 dots from anterior margin near the apex, the three first being en- 

 circled with black, and a small sixth spot wholly black; a narrow 

 marginal line blackish, and submarginal line dark brown : Mnd- 

 toing with a broad nearly straight white band from anterior margin 

 to near anal angle, where it is narrowest ; an oval and two small 

 black marks within discoidal cell; a narrow dark black marginal 

 line ; a submarginal row of dark-brown marks, bounded inwardly by 

 a row of zigzag white marks ; noar the anal angle, between tlie 

 middle and lower median veins, is a small black spot encircled witli 

 pale red ; abdominal margin pale. Under-side very pale ochreous- 

 brown, with markings as above, but less distinct ; the black spot on 

 the fore-wing is rather large, but on the hind- wing this spot is very 

 small. Expanse of wings 1-^ inches. 



a. ? . Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 



Genus SYMPHiEDRA, Hdbner. 

 Stmph^dra, Hiibner, Verz. hek. Schmett. (1816). 

 Stmphedra, U. Douhleday. 

 Lexias, JBoisduval, Fog. de VAstrolahe, Ins. pt. l.p. 125 (1832). 



