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Manders records having " several specimens taken in widely different localities. 

 It is common in Eastern Karenee, also in the forest belt between Burma and the 

 Shan States, and appears partial to thick jungle near water. I have taken it in 

 July, and also in January" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 525). A single male is recorded 

 from Sinbyoodine on the Siam frontier" (J. A. Soc. Beng. 1887, 422). 



Genus APATURA. 



Apatura, Fabricins, Illiger's Mag. vi. p. 280 (1807). Scudder, Proc. Boston Acad. Arts and Sci. x. 



p. 115 (1875). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 57 (1881). Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 



p. 109. 

 Hypolimnas, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 45 (1816) ; id. Samm. Exot. Schmett. ii. (1822-5). 



Distant, ELop. Malay, p. 164 (1883). de Xiceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 121 (1868). 



Staudinger and Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 131 (1887). 

 Esoptria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 4.5 (1816). 

 Biadema, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 135 (1832) ; id. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. p. 187 (1833). 



Doubleday and Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 279 (1850). Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 27. 



Felder, Xeues Lep. p. 25 (1861). 

 j^ola (part), BUlberg, Enum. Lis. p. 78 (1820). 



Imago. Male. Forewing triangular ; costa much arched, apex obtusely 

 convex ; exterior margin oblique, slightly angulated below the apex, concave below 

 the middle, and slightly scalloped ; posterior margin slightly recurved ; costal vein 

 extending to more than half the margin ; first subcostal branch emitted at one-fifth 

 before end of the cell, and second subcostal close to the end, third branch at one- 

 third beyond, fourth and fifth at two-thirds beyond ; cell broad, truncate at end, 

 less than half length of wing; upper discocellulur very short, outwardly oblique, 

 middle discocellular curved inward, lower discocellular long, very slender and 

 slightly curved outward ; radials from their angles ; middle median veiulet emitted 

 at some distance before lower end of cell, lower median at half the length ; 

 submedian nearly straight. Eindwing broad, somewhat rounded ; exterior margin 

 very convex, scalloped ; costal vein extending to the apex, much arched from the 

 base; precostal vein short, incurved, emitted at some distance above base of 

 subcostal ; the subcostal branch emitted at one-fourth before upper end of cell ; 

 upper discocellular short, curved outward, lower discocellular long, curved outward 

 and very slender ; radial from their middle ; two upper medians from lower end of 

 cell, lower median from opposite subcostal branch; submedian slightly curved, 

 internal vein deeply curved at the base. Body moderately stout, palpi porrect, 

 second joint long, projecting half its length beyond the head, compactly squamose 

 beneath, second joint slightly pilose at upper and inner end, third joint short, 



