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wing ; a narrow marginal waved line : hindwing also with a submarginal ochreous 

 band, narrowest in the male. Underside pale ochreous, blotched with dark 

 brown strigte, except on the basal streak of forewing and transverse band of 

 both wings. 



Expanse, $ 1|, ? 1| inches. 



" Principally a low country insect, difficult to capture perfect as it always 

 frequents the vicinity of thick thorny Acacias. Found at all times, but mostly in 

 March and April " {Maclcwood). 



" Western and Central Provinces ; commonest in the Plains, but found up to 

 3000 feet, in forest land, at all times. Shy, flutters about bushes, alighting on the 

 leaves with wings opened" {Hutchison). 



Genus APATTJRA. 



Apatura, Fabricius, Iliiger's Mag. vi. p. 280 (1807). 



Hypolimnas et Esoptria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 45 (1816). 



Diadema, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 135 (1832). 



Forewing broad, triangular, costa much arched, apex convex, exterior margin 

 slightly oblique and concave below the middle, waved ; costal vein extending more 

 than half length of the margin; first and second subcostal branches emitted at equal 

 distances close to end of the cell, third at one-third beyond it, fourth and fifth at 

 two-thirds beyond its end ; cell very broad, truncate at the end, less than half 

 length of the wing ; upper discocellular short, bent outward close to subcostal and 

 then curved inward, lower slender and slightly curving outward, radials from angle 

 and end of upper discocellular ; middle median emitted at a short distance before end 

 of the cell, lower at half length of the cell ; submedian nearly straight : hindwing 

 broad, exterior margin very convex, waved ; costal vein extending to the apex, with 

 a short outwardly-curved basal spur thrown off at some distance above base of the 

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

 discocellular short, curved outward, lower long and curved obliquely outward, radial 

 from their middle ; two upper median branches emitted from end of the cell, lower 

 from opposite second subcostal ; submedian vein slightly curved, internal deeply 

 curved at the base. Body moderately stout, abdomen short ; palpi porrect, second 

 joint long, projecting half its length beyond the head, sqiiamose beneath, second 

 joint slightly pilose at upper and inner end, third joint short, pointed ; legs slender ; 

 antennge somewhat short, with a well-formed short club. 



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