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intelligent account of the life history of Camena cleohis, by Mrs, Robson, with a note 

 by de Niceville ; but amongst Moore's notes we have found one from de Niceville, in his 

 own handwriting, intimating that the species was wrongly identified, and that the life 

 history belongs to Tajuria diseus, Hewitson, where we have placed it. (p. 115.) 



Genus PRATAPA. 



Pratapa, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 108 (1881). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 338 (footnote), 



(1896). 

 Camena, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 47 (186.5), (pre-occupied in Coleoptera). Moore, Proc. Zool. 



Soo. 1883, p. 529. de Niceville, I.e. p. 338 (1890). Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 3.50 



(1893). 



Eyes naked. Forewing long ; the middle discocellular very short, less than half 

 the length of the lower, slightly outwardly oblique, the lower discocellular upright, 

 slightly concave, vein 2 from one-third before lower end of cell, 3 from a little 

 before the end, 12 ends on the costa opposite end of cell, 11 emitted from the middle 

 of the cell, 10 from one-third, 9 from middle of 7 ; wing triangular; costa more or 

 less arched at the base, apex pointed, outer margin convex below the apex, hinder 

 margin convex in the middle, and with a tuft of hair l^eneath, long and thick. 

 liindicing with the upper discocellular outwardly oblique, the lower of equal length, 

 straight, outwardly oblique, but less so than the upper ; vein 7 emitted at one-half 

 before upper end of cell, 3 at one-fifth and 2 at about one-half before lower end ; 

 submedian nervure straight, internal nervure much recurved ; wing broadly conical, 

 with a large circular glandular patch of scales at the base of the sub-costal nervure ; 

 costa much arched, outer margin sinuous, abdominal margin long, with two tails ; the 

 anal angle lobed. Antennae stout, body robust. 



Type, P. deva, Moore. 



PRATAPA CTESIA. 



Plate 730, figs. 2, <J , 2a, ? , 2b, $ . 



Camena ctesia, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 48, pi. 20, figs. 1, 2, ^ (1865). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1883, p. 530. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 394, pi. 8, fig. 6, 9 . Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. 

 p. 275, pi. 95, <J (1888). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 340, pi. 28, fig. 215, (J (1890). 

 Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 302. Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 351 (1893). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brilliant blue. Forewing with broad black marginal 

 bands, narrow on the costa to the end of the cell, where it is joined to a large black nearly 

 round patch outside the cell end ; the band broad at the apex, narrowing slightly down 

 the outer maro;in and extendina; in a buloed form to the middle of the hinder margin 

 and from thence to the base in a paler sufi'used form ; the veins between the black 



