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dark brown Butterfly, with a broad blue band running across 

 the central part of the wings between the middle of the fore- 

 wings and the middle of the hind-wings ; there is also a blue 

 spot towards the tip of the fore-wings. Bates remarks that it 

 " is found only in swampy and thinned parts of the forest that 

 clothe the delta-lands of the Amazons. ... It prefers 

 the humid cacao-groves on the islands, settling on fallen fruits ; 

 its flight is low, but exceedingly swift." 



GENUS KALLIMA. 



Kallima, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid., p. 224 (1850) 

 Schatz, Exot. Schmett., ii., p. 128 (1887). 



The species of Kallima are insects of considerable size. 

 They are allied to the Vanessa, with the wings very broad in 

 proportion to their length, the fore-wings pointed, and some- 

 times slightly hooked, and the hind -margin first concave and 

 then convex. The hind-wings are much produced at the anal 

 angle, within which the inner margin is concave. The projec- 

 tion usually takes the form of a short, broad, and rather obtuse 

 tail. The wings are usually either brown or blue above, with 

 a broad orange-yellow, blue, or white band running obliquely 

 from the middle of the costa of the fore-wings to below the 

 middle of the hind-margin. On its inner side there are generally 

 two transparent spots, but the under side of the wings is far 

 more remarkable, for it is always of a more or less varied brown 

 or grey,- exactly resembling a withered leaf both in colour and 

 markings, when the wings are closed. A darker line, corres- 

 ponding to the mid-rib of the leaf, runs from the tip of the 

 fore-wings to the tail on the hind-wings ; and there are some- 

 times lateral lines as well. The species of Kallima inhabit India 

 and the Malayan islands. One or two are found in Africa, but 

 they differ a little from the types of the genus, as the fore-wings 

 are less pointed, and the resemblance of the under side to a 



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