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NYMPHALIDjE. 



260. Apatura ulupi, Doherty (Potamis-Apatura), /. A. S. B. 1889, 



p. 125, pi. 10, fig. 2 S ; Moore (Dravira), Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, 

 p. 14, pi. 193, figs. 2, 2 a, J. 



Upper dele : fore wing black, a broad oblique bar from the costa 

 across apical two-thirds of cell to apex of vein 1, a second very 

 oblique discal bar from costa to tornal angle, angulated outwards 

 on vein 4 and traversed by black veins ; two preapical spots 

 and a blackish suffused streak along the costal margin, ochraceous 

 yellow ; a large very prominent postdiscal jet-black round spot in 

 interspace 2. Hind wing ochraceous yellow, shaded with fuliginous 

 on its posterior half; a postdiscal jet-black spot in interspace 2, 

 followed by a transverse row of small black angulated marks, de- 

 creasing in size posteriorly ; a subterminal black line widening at 

 the veins, and a terminal slender black line. Underside pale ochra- 

 ceous ; the jet-black spot in fore wing as on the upperside, on 

 hind wing centred largely with silvery white ; two white preapical 

 spots on fore wing and a silvery-white discal band, with silvery- 

 white spots beyond, on hind wing ; both fore and hind wing with 

 very obscure subterminal dusky brown narrow bands. Posterior 

 half of hind wing suffused with very pale greenish. Antenna?, 

 thorax and abdomen dark brown, the antennas subapically and the 

 head ochraceous ; beneath, head, thorax and abdomen white. 

 Female unknown. 



Exp. S 68 mm. (2-7"). 



Bab. Recorded only from Margherita in Assam. 



261. Apatura parvata, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i, 1857, p. 202, 



pi. 6 a, fig - . 6 <$ ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 53 ; Ehves, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 340; Moore (Narsenga),Zep. Lid. iii, 1896-99, 

 p. 15, pi. 194, figs. 1, 1 a, 3- 



cS . Upperside brown. Fore wing with three subbasal, and at 

 apex of cell a large transverse dark brown spot ; an angulated 

 discal series of ochraceous- white spots ; a subapicalrow of five pure 

 white dots ; a discal brown blind ocellus ; a more or less lunular 

 postdiscal transverse dark band, and a subterminal dark, somewhat 

 obscure liue, the border on the inner and outer sides of it paler. 

 Hind wing more uniform, the ochraceous-white discal series of 

 spots continued on from the fore wing ; an ochraceous-ringed blind 

 black ocellus in interspace 2 ; a postdiscal series of dark lunules 

 inwardly bordered with pale ochraceous, and a subterminal pale- 

 margined line as in the fore wing. Underside : fore wing more or 

 less ochraceous ; hind wing a very pale brown : markings on 

 both as on the upperside, but faint and ill-defined. Antennae 

 dark brown ; head, thorax and abdomen brown, paler beneath. — 

 2 • Upperside, similar, paler brown, the angulated discal series of 

 ochraceous spots merged into an irregular, outwardly diffused, 

 inwardly well-defined band, the subapical white spots reduced to 

 three. Underside similar to that of the S , but the wings sub- 

 terminallv lilacine. 



E.vp. S 2 51-55 mm. (2-04-2-3"). 



Bab. Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Assam, Khasi Hills. 



