VADE MECUM. !)1 



(lenus ApATURA, pi. II, /i^. 9. 



Anlenna: rather long; knob oblong, rather tajjcring, tor- 

 niinatnig in a lateral point ; joints about forty. 



I'uliti longer than the head, curving downwards at the tip. 



Forelegs .spurious. 



Claws simple ; foot cu.shlons short. 



/flings scalloped ; pi'imari/ subtriangnlar, subfalcate; siroii- 

 ilary between round and triangular; grooved for the 

 abdomen. 



Egg imknown. 



('(ilcrpillitr fusifonn, spinose, homed at the head. 



^ '//)7/in/(.vsubangular, hunched, suspended, lioad-casebeak<'d.* 



Ililimvi- .Schmet. pi. xxv. E. C. 



APATURA IRIS, lU'RI'LE IJMPEROR. 



Lewiti, 1)1. 16. Donovan, v. 2, /;. 37. Vunciin, pi. 21. 



Butler^!/. Wings above l)lack, tinted a.s the light shifts 

 with a most boautifiil mazarine blue. The primary with 

 several white spots dispersed in a triple scries, 1 , 5, 2 ; the 

 secondary with a white angular hand, and an eyelet at the 

 anal angle with a narrow tawny iris, and black pupil. 

 Underneath tlie primary are variegated with brown, tawny, 

 black, and white, and the posterior margin is cmereous. An 

 eyelet witli a black iris, and Ijlueish pupil is placed between 

 the disk and the posterior margin. Tlie secondary wing.s have 

 a pyramidate angular white band, they are reddi.sh brown 

 and cinereous at the posterior margin, with a small eyelet, 

 coloured a.s in the i>rimary, at the anal angle. The wings 

 of the fennxle are not tinted with l>lue. 



• K. Diet, n'riisl. N.al. x.\iii. !ltl- 



