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side of the white spots suffused with brown, shaded with fuscous ; 

 some brownish markings in the discoidal area. Antennae blackish 

 brown ; head, thorax and abdomen dark brown above, whitish 

 beneath, the abdomen above banded with white. 



Exp. 6 2 80-87 mm. (3-18-3-4"). 



Hah. Sikhiin ; the hill-ranges of Assam and Upper Burma. 



259. Apatura parisatis (PL VII, fig. 50 $ ), Westwood, in Dblday. 

 Westw. # Hew. Gen. Hi. Lep. ii, 1850, p. 305 ; Moore (Rohana), 

 Lep. Ceyl. i, 1880, p. 27 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 54, pi. 20, 

 fig. 92 cJ $ ; Elwes, Trans. But. Soc. 1888, p. 340 ; Moore 

 (Rohana), Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 17, pi. 194, figs. 2,2a-2c, d $ . 



Race camiba. 



Rohana camiba, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1880, p. 27, pi. 14, figs. 1, 1 a- 

 1 c, $ <$, larva & pupa : de N. (Apatura) Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, 

 p. 54 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 19, pi. 194, fig. 3, larva 

 & pupa. 



<5 . Upper side deep velvety black, with one minute snow-white 

 preapical spot on the fore wing ; the cilia of both fore and hind 

 wing alternately black and white. Underside dark purplish brown, 

 shaded at base of wings and along costal margin and apex of fore 

 wing with dark ferruginous ■ both fore and hind wing with two 

 black spots in the discoidal area, followed by an auriform mark 

 and an irregular median band, crossing both wings, of dark brown 

 markings outwardly obscurely and interruptedly bordered with 

 lilacine ; beyond the discal area both wings are shaded trans- 

 versely with dark brown, succeeded by a subterminal dark line 

 bordered inwardly w T ith purple; fore wing with the white 

 preapical spot larger ; hind wing with a black white-centred 

 minute subtornal spot. Antenuae black ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen velvety black, dark brown beneath. — 9 . Upperside 

 yellowish brown. Fore and hind wings : basal half shaded and 

 marked with brown, with an angulated transverse broad brown 

 median fascia and a postdiscal transverse brown shading ; on the 

 hind wing traversed by a series of obscure dark spots ; on the 

 fore wing with three, sometimes four, minute subapical white 

 spots ; a transverse series of dark lunular markings on both 

 wings, followed by a subterminal dark line. Underside yellowish 

 brown ; markings somewhat similar to those in the <$ , but more 

 clearly defined. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen light 

 brown, yellowish beneath. 



S 2 Exp. 46-52 mm. (1-8-2-04"). 



Hah. The Himalayas from Kumaun to Sikhim ; the low hills of 

 Assam, Burma and Tenasserim, extending to China and Siam. 



Bace camiba, Moore, is absolutely identical except for the con- 

 stant minute difference of the fore wing on the upper and under 

 sides ; this has in the 3 three, in the $ five subapical white dots. 



Exp. $ $ as in A. parisatis. 



Hah. Southern India, Ceylon. 



