50 NYMPHALID.E. NYMPHALIN.E. APATURA. 



of frequenting moist spots. In Europe A, iris shows a partiality for carrion, I am unaware if 

 its Indian allies possess a similar depraved taste. , o .u a •.,„ ;« 



The genus V^"- is very wide-spread, and occurs in both North and South Amerrca, n 

 the West India Islands, throughout Europe ai^d Asia, and in the Malay Arch.pelago. There 

 are about forty species known. 



Eo7 to the Indian species of Apatura. 



A. Males with a respletidant blue gloss on the upperside. 



329. A. NAMOUNA, Himalayas, Assam, Naga Hills. 



330. A. BHAVANA, N. E. Bengal. 



B Both sexes black on the upperside. with white bands and spots ; the male very faintly blue glossed. 



331. A. CHEVANA, Sikkim, Assam- 



C. Both sexes brown on the upperside. 



a. With a white discal oblique band and apical spots on the forewing. 



332. A. soBDiDA, Sikkim. 



b. With obscure ferruginous markings on both wings. 



333. A. PARVATA, Sikkim, Bhutan. 



D. Males purple-black ; females brown. 



a, Male with one minute apical white dot on forewing. 



334. A. {Kokan^) parvsatis. N. E. Bengal, Upper Tenasserim. 

 6. Male with three minute apical white dots on forewing. 



335. A. (Rohana) camiba, South India, Ceylon. 



329. Apatura namouna, Doubleday. (Plate XX, Fig. 91 S ). 



A «/T»w«;z^, Doubleday, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., vol. xvi. p. 178 (1845);^. amlica. Kollar. 

 HugeVs Kaschmir, vol. iv, pt. ii, p. 431. ". i. pl- vlii, figs. 3. 4 (1848) ; id., Horsfield and Moore. Cat. Lep. Mas. 

 E.I. C, vol i, p. 201, n. 411 (.857) ;id., Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc Lond., 1865, p. 765 5 A. zanca, Hewitson, 

 Ex. Butt., vol. iv, pi. i, Apatura, figs. 7, S (1869). 



Habitat : Himalayas, Assam, Naga Hills. 

 Expanse : <J , 2-6 to 3-0 ; ? , 2*9 inches. 



Description : " Both wings swarthy black, shot with brilliant shining blue, with a broad 

 transverse band and some spots white. Underside silveiy-white, with rufous margins and 

 transverse line." 



Male ; " Upperside both idngs fuscous black, with a transverse pure white band slightly 



bordered with bluish, commencing by three rounded dots at the extremity of the discoidal cell 



of the forewing, afterwards widening and attaining the abdominal margin of the hindwing* ; 



beyond this band are three white dots towards the ape.\: of the foreiving, and one or two indistinct 



ones towards its anal angle ; on the himhoing a series of seven [submarginal] whitish dots ; the 



anal angle rufous. The whole disc and inner margin of the forrwinq, and the whole of the 



hindzuin'^, except [the abdominal margin], the pure white part of the transverse band and the 



white dots, are in certain lights of the most splendid metallic light blue. Underside, 



silvery white with pearly reflections, a faint indication of the band above ; the costa of the 



forewing except at the base, the outer margins of both wings, a transverse band beyond 



the middle much widened [and suffused with ochreous] towards the anal angle of the foretving, 



rufous. This band is marked at its widest part by a round black spot and bordered there 



externally with two sublunulate black spots, and an arrow-shaped one. In addition to this are 



two small black spots in the discoidal cell followed by two short black perpendicular lines, 



below this is a black spot and two black lunules, and on the hindiuing a black dot near the anal 



angle, preceded in the band by a similar one. Head swarthy ; the orbits of the eyes, the 



palpi below, and four spots on the vertex, white ; the antennce swarthy. Thorax and abdomen 



swarthy above, paler below ; legs silvery white." {Doubleday, 1. c.) " The female is 



distinguished from the male in being paler, and having none of that beautiful gloss on 



* This is not correct ; it stops short before the submedian nervure above the inner edge of the abdominal 

 fold. 



