MORPHO. 



2. Thai'm. Diores. 



Tliaumantis Diores /?. Doullcday, Annals of Nat. Hist. 

 XVI. p. 234. (1845). 

 Northern India, Sylhet. B. M. 



3. TnAiM. Klugius. 



jMorpho Klugius Zinken-Summrr in Nova Acta, xv. p. 165. 

 pi. 15. f. 11. (male only). 

 Java. 



4. ThaUiM. Phaon. 



Drusilla Pliaon Erichson in N'ora Aria, xvi. Suppl. p. 

 401. t. L. f. 1, 2 a. 

 Manilla. 



5. Thaum. Lucipor Westu: nov. sp.* 



Borneo. 



6. Thaum. Noureddin Westw. nov. sp.f 



India. 



7. Thaum. Camadeva. 



B. M. 



B. M. 



Morpho (Thaumantis) Camadeva Westwood, Cabinet of 

 Orient. Entomol. p. 9. pi. iv. f. 1,2.; Douhl. Westw. &; 

 Hewitson, Diurn Lep. pi. 55. f. 2. 

 Sylhet. B. 51. 



8. Thau.m. Nourmahal Westw. nov. sp.:): 

 India. 



Mus. Saunders. 



Genus IV. MORPHO. 



Morpho Fabricius, Syst. Gloss. 



Morpho p. Gnd'. 



Megamede and Leonte Hiihner. 



Body very small; wings very large, variable in form, marked beneath (especially the hinder pair) with ocellated 



spots. 

 Head rather broad, slightly hairy, with a small conical tuft in front. 



Eyes large, prominent, naked. 



Antennce short, slender, formed of rather elongated joints ; tenninated by a very slender gradually formed club, 

 with short joints, finely carinated beneath. 



Labial Palpi small, obliciuely porrected, not elevated to the level of the top of the eyes, compressed, finely hairy 

 in front, not convergent ; the back of the second joint clothed with longer hairs in the middle ; terminal joint 

 minute, conical. 

 Thorax small, oval ; neck hairy, as well as the sides of the metathorax. 



Fore Wings very large, variable in form. Apical margin generally more or less emarginate. Costal vein 

 extending to about two thirds of the length of the costa. Postcostal vein with its first branch arising nearly at 

 half the length of the wing; sec'ond branch arising close beyond it, and before the anterior extremity of the 

 discoidal cell ; the third branch arising at about three fourths, and the fourth at about five sixths, of the length 

 of the wing ; all these branches free, the fourth extending to the tip of the wing. Upper disco-cellular vein 

 almost obliterated, arising at a little beyond the middle of the length of the wing; middle disco-cellular 

 long, and curved obliquely ; outer disco-cellular as long, or nearly as long, as the middle disco-cellular, less 

 oblique, uniting with the third branch of the median vein at a considerable distance from its base, and closing 

 the discoidal cell much beyond the middle of the wing ; this third branch strongly angulated where it receives 

 the lower disco-cellular vein. The median is furnished at its base with a short spur, thickened at its junction 

 with the vein, lint which does not appear to me to form a distinct connexion between the median and sub- 

 median veins ; neither can I perceive any distinct interno-median nervule represented in PL A. of Details, f. 3. 

 (fore wing of ]\Iorpho Perseus). 



Hind Wings large, and elongate, ovate-triangular, generally more or less repanded, that is, furnished Avith a series 

 of scallops between the veins ; not provided with tufts of hairs in the males. Precostal vein simple, curved 

 towards the body. Costal vein slightly curved, extending to the outer angle. Postcostal vein with its first 

 branch arising at about one third of the length of the wing. Upper disco-cellular forming the curved base of 



* Thaumantis alls rotundatis supra nigris, apice fuscescentibus, disco omnium nitidissime violascenti-csruleo ; alis infra fuscis purpureo parum tinclis: 

 anticis striga obliqua recta e medio costse fere ad angulum analem extensa, parum lilacina ; limbo comnnmi pallidiori et e disco striga obscuriori separate, puncto 

 luteo versus apicem marginis costalis posticarum, ocelloque parvo pone medium versus angulum analem uigro, semicirculo albo circuloque tenui nigro: antennis 

 ferrugineis. Expans. alar. unc. Si,. (Mas.) 



+ Thaumantis alis anticis sub apicem parum angulatis, anguloque anali posticarum in cauilam brevem lalam subproductis ; alis omnibus supra fuscis 

 margine apicali pauUo pallidiori, disco omnium purpureo vix tincto, singulo posticarum fasciculis duobus pilorum nigrorum instructo ; infra castaneo-fuscis, 

 fascia communi submarginali magis castanea, posticis ocellis duobus magnitudine fere ccqualibus, semicirculo albo circuloque nigro circumcinctis. Expans. alar, 

 unc. 3|. (Mas.) 



X Thaumantis alis supra castaneo-fuscis, anticis fascia latissima fulva obliqua pone medium ad marginem extensa, serie communi submarginali literarum v 

 fuscarum, alteraque lunularum ejusdem coloris, puncto albo subapicali anticarum ; alis infra badio-fulvis fasciis duabus angustis fere rectis virescenti-albis 

 obhquis, Ima per medium CL-llularum discoidalium extensa, 2nda fire e medio costie ad angulum analem extensa, singula intus linea nigra marginata; 

 margine externo lato pallidiori, in quo ocelli 2 in alis anticis, 3 in posticis, singulo puncto medio lunulari albo notato : lineis duabus valde flcxuosis et 

 dentatis nigris submarginalibus maculaqne nigra lilacino parum irrorata in angulo anali. Expans. alar. unc. 4]. (.\n fem. Th. Camadeva.'') 



