54 NYMPHALID.E. NYMPHALIN/'E. APATURA. 



334. Apatura parysatis, Westwood. (Plate xx, Fig. 92^ ? ). 



A. farisatis, Wtstwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 305, n. 20, ftaU (1850); id., Horsfield and Moore 

 Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 202, n. 413 (1857). 



Habitat : Sikkim, Sylhet, Assam, Upper Tenasserim, Java. 



Expanse : i"9 to 2'0 inches. 



Descriptiom : " Male, with the body above and both wings black, a minute white dot 

 towards the apex of the forewing excepted. Underside ferruginous, clouded with fuscous, 

 with two small black dots in the discoidal area [cell ?] and an ear-shaped spot before the middle 

 [of the forewing black], an irregular submedian streak and another subapieal greyish-blue, and 

 with small ocellus towards the anal angle [of the hindwing]. Female: Upperside obscure 

 fulvous, the discoidal area [cell ?] of 6a(^ tviitgs with two dots and a spot black ; an obscure 

 median angulate band, beyond the middle clouded with fuscous, and a submarginal series of 

 small blind ocelli. Underside as in the male, but much paler. " (Westwood, I.e.) 



"/4/rt/Mm^rt!MWiV may be distinguished by its small size, and by the uniform jet-black 

 colour of the upperside, the underside 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 undersides with markings 

 nearly similar to those of the underside of the male, and with a curved row of small white 

 dots near the apex of the forewing." {Moore, 1. c.) 



Males of A. parysatis are frequently seen at elevations of 5,000 feet and below in Sikkim, 

 the female being very rare. The Indian Museum, Calcutta, has specimens from Sylhet, 

 Sibsagar (JS. E. Peal), Naga Hills and Upper Tenasserim. 



The figure shows the upperside of both sexes of Sikkim specimens in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta. 



335- Apatura camiTsa, Moore. 



Sohana camiba, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 27, pi. .\iv, figs, i, wale; la, female; 16, larva; ic, pupa (iSSz). 

 Habitat : South India, Ceylon. 

 Expanse: <J, 17 to 21; ? , i-6 to i"9 inches. 



Description : " Male : Upperside dark purple-black. Forerving with a subapieal 

 linear series of three minute white spots. Cilia white streaked. Underside greyish purple- 

 brown, costal area beyond the cell on forewing and exterior border of both wings chestnut-red ; 

 a black-lined chestnut-red mark and two inner small spots within both cells, and a small 

 spot below the cell on forewing ; a slender black zigzag inner-discal line, followed by a 

 suffused black fascia and a submarginal row of purple-grey rings crossing both wings, the 

 latter ending at the apex in a more prominent continuous grey streak, and the inner line 

 bordered externally by purple-white spots which are less distinct on the hindwing ; the three 

 transverse subapieal small white spots distinct and followed by two other very minute spots, 

 and then a black spot, all visible on the blackish fascia j a subanal black spot pupilled with 

 white and circled with chestnut-red on hindwing. Female : Upperside ferruginous, darkest 

 basally ; markings as in male, but of a ferruginous-brown colour, the transverse discal white 

 spots and subanal ocellus distinct. Underside paler, markings less distinct, except the 

 white spots on forewing which are also purple bordered." 



"This species is closely allied to R. [^.] parisatis, of which a large series of both are 

 under examination, but differs in its slightly more acute angle below the apex of the forewing 

 in both sexes, and a more prolonged anal angle in male, the male also having three white 

 spots on upperside of forewing, one only being present in A. pai-isatis." 



angle and lower radial from its end ; cell open ; lower median branch emitted from opposite disco-cellular, the 

 two upper at some distance beyond ; submedian straight : hindwing triangular ; costal vein curved upward, 

 extending to apex, with a short basal curved spur ; subcostals and radial contiguous at base but divergent ; 

 cell open ; lower median branch emitted at a short distance from base of the two upper, submedian and inner 

 vein recurved Body short, thorax stout, palpi porrect, pointed, fl.it beneath, squaiaose, legs short, squamose, 

 antennx slender. Type, R, parysatU." {Aloore, 1. c ) 



