NYMPHALID^. NYMPH ALIN^. APATURA. 53 



an oblique discal band of white spots, adjoining which is a single and before the apex two 

 white dots. Hindioing with a dark-brown pale-bordered marginal line and submarginal spots. 

 Underside brownish grey, brown apically. Fore-Ming with the oblique discal band of white 

 spots, the lower spot having a black yellow-bordered ocellus ; apical spots and marginal 

 streaks white. Hhtdwin^ with a transverse discal brown line bordered anteriorly with white 

 spots, a marginal pale-bordered brown line, on the lower part of the disc is an ocellus having a 

 black pupil streaked with blue, yellow iride, and brown outer border. Female. Upperside 

 paler, with a broad oblique uninterrupted white band ; otherwise as in male. Underside 

 pale brownish grey ; the broad oblique band of forewing as on upperside ; the rest as in male." 

 {^Moore, 1. c.) 



This is a very rare species. There is a single male in Mr. Otto Moller's collection taken in 

 October at a low elevation, one female in Mr. A. V. Knyvett's collection, and a pair in Colonel 

 A. M. Lang's, taken by Dr. Jerdon, all from Sikkim. 



333- Apatura parvata, Moore. 



A, parvata, Moore, Horbfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. 0., vol. i, p. 202, n. 412, pi. vi«, fig. 

 6 (1857), male. 



Habitat : Sikkim, Bhutan. 



Expanse : i'9 to 2-3 inches. 



Description : " Male : Upperside dark ferruginous-brown, darkest at the base, and bright 

 about discoidal cell and along the exterior margin. Foreiving with blackish marks in the discoidal 

 cell ; marginal and submarginal lines, and indistinct narrow interrupted transverse series of pale 

 ferruginous spots from middle of anterior to posterior margin ; also a series of five small white 

 spots from anterior margin near the apex, below which is an indistinct black spot. Hindwino 

 with narrow pale ferruginous band from middle of anterior margin to near middle of abdominal 

 margin j also, near anal angle, a black spot encircled with ferruginous ; abdominal margin dull 

 ferruginous-brown. Underside ferruginous, brightest on the forewing ; markings disposed as 

 above. Foreiving with the transverse series of spots distinct and white, being bounded in- 

 wardly with blackish patches ; near the apex and posterior angle are some patches of black ; 

 the black spot on disc large ; also a black patch on posterior base of the wing j marginal line 

 ashy. Hindwing ferruginous-brown across the disc, with band as above white ; on the lower 

 part of the disc is a small black spot centred with blue and encircled with ferruginous ; a 

 marginal line and submarginal zigzag marks ashy." {Moore, 1. c.) Female : Duller coloured 

 than the male, the discal series of pale ferniginous spots on the forewing and discal line on the 

 hindwing absent, but replaced by an irregular ferruginous diffused band, which is inwardly 

 sharply defined. Foreiving with three subapical white dots only, the anal ocellus on the hind- 

 iving smaller and blind. Underside marked much as above, but paler, the discal band outwardly 

 marked with lilac, and a small patch of that colour below the apex of ih^ forrwiwr the 

 white dots larger. '^' 



This also is a rare species, the Indian Museum, Calcutta, has specimens from Sikkim and 

 Buxa, Bhutan {Moti Rani), ' 



The next two species have been generically separated by Mr. Moore in his "Lepidoptera 

 of Ceylon," p. 27, from the true Apaticras under the name oi Rohana. I can find no character of 

 sufficient importance in the perfect insect to give these species distinct generic rank, though had 

 the second subcostal nervule of the forewing been given off " beyond the cell, " as stat^ed by 

 Mr. Moore, instead of before it as it actually is, they might perhaps have been separated with 

 advantage. The larva (of A. caviibd), however, is most remarkably different from that of 

 typical Apatnra, being in fact truly Satyrid in appearance, it is smooth, and furnished with two 

 long spined black processes projecting forwards in front of the head, and other two short pointed 

 smooth greenish processes at the anal extremity. The males are deep purple-black above 

 p aler below ; the females ferruginous ochreo us. The description of ^^/w;w is given below.* ' 



cell, third and fourth at equal distances ; disco-cellular short, angled close to subcostal^ upper rad.al from Ihe 



