NYMPHALIDiE. 



APATURA. 



APATURA PHAEACIA. 1,2. 



Upperside. Female, rufous-brown. Anterior wing with more than the apical half 

 dark brown, crossed from margin to margin by a band of white divided by the 

 nervures, having at the middle of its outer border a small white spot : two subapical 

 white spots, and a submarginal band of brown. Posterior wing with a submarginal 

 band of brown, and above it a series of brown spots. 



Underside pale, rufous, tinted with lilac. Both wings with a second sub- 

 marginal band of rufous-brown. Anterior wing with a black spot upon the white 

 band, and two spots of lilac-white between the band and the inner margin. Posterior 

 wins with a lilac-white band bordered above with rufous-brown, and followed below 

 by some spots of lilac-white, and a black ocellus bordered with pale yellow and brown, 

 the pupil blue. 



Exp. 2|§ inch. Hab. Darjeeling. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



This species comes nearest to A. Idyja of Hubner. It is from the rich Collection of Mr. Roberts. 



APATURA PAVONII. 3, 4. 



I had forgotten, when this figure was drawn to show the female of A. Pavonii, that it had been 

 previously published by Dr. Herrich Schaffer. 



APATURA LAURENTIA. 5, 6. 



Upperside. Female, rufous-brown. Both wings crossed near the middle by a 

 common band of white which commences at the second median nervure of the anterior 

 wing and is continued to the anal angle of the posterior wing ; both wings with two 

 submarginal bands of rufous-brown. Anterior wing with a large orange spot (part 

 of the transverse band), and touching it near the apex three small spots of yellow. 



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