1 70 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



Dilipa morgiana (Westwood) is another North Indian species, 

 much resembling Apatura in shape and size, but with hairy eyes, 

 and closed wing-cells. It is brown, with two oblique orange 

 bands on the fore-wings, and a very broad one on the hind- 

 wings ; as in Castalia, there are no eyes towards the hinder 

 angles of the wings. 



The largest species of the Apatura group is Apaturina 

 erminea (Cramer) from Amboina, which measures about four 

 inches across the wings. The fore-wings are longer than the 

 hind-wings, with the hind-margin only slightly concave, and 

 the hind-wings have a rounded and slightly dentated hind- 

 margin, and form a long broad oval, which is not contracted 

 or pointed at the anal angle, as is more or less the case, at 

 least, in the male, in most of the genera allied to Apatura. 

 It is brownish-black above, broadly purplish-blue at the base, 

 and with an oblique row of large pale yellow spots on the 

 fore-wings ; towards the anal angle of the hind-wings is a 

 large eye, most distinct beneath. This genus also has closed 

 wing-cells. 



The last genus of this group which we shall notice is Helcyra, 

 Felder, containing a group of white Butterflies found in the 

 Himalayas and in Amboina, with broad black borders to the 

 fore-wings and a few black spots scattered irregularly towards 

 the margins of the wings. The wings are broad, the fore-wings 

 short, with the hind-margin nearly straight, and the hind-wings 

 are dentated, with an angular projection in the middle of the 

 hind-margin. 



GENUS PROTOGONIUS. 



ProtogoniuS) Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 100 (1816); 

 Westw., Gen. Diurn. Lepid., p. 313 (1850); But!., P. Z. S., 

 1873, P- 773, 1875, i., p. 35; Schatz, Exot. Schmett., ii., 

 p. 171 (1888). 



The long narrow wings of this genus, and the distribution of 



