350 LTaENID.E. 



Genus CAMENA. 



Camena. Hewitsoii, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 47 (1865) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, 



p. 529; de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 338 (1890). 

 Pratapa, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 108 (1881). 



'• Head large. Eiies smooth, the space between thera prominent, thickly clothed alternately with 

 black and white hair. Palpi smooth, very erect, long ; the second joint compressed, rising 

 above the head ; the terminal joint of the male as long as the second. AiHentice of moderate 

 length, with numerous short joints indicated by white on the underside. Bodi/ robust. 



" AxTEEiOR WING triangular ; costal margin nearly straight ; outer margin slightly curved out- 

 wards, shorter than the other margins ; inner margin slightly projecting near the base, where 

 it is clothed with a tuft of hair on its underside. Costal nervure extending to the middle of 

 the margin; subcostal nervure with three branches, two before the end of the cell, the third 

 at a distance from the apex ; the discoidal cell half the length of the wing, closed by two 

 discocellular nervules in a straight line ; the second three times as long as the first, joining 

 the third branch of the median nervure a little beyond its base ; the upper discoidal nervure 

 leaves the subcostal before the end of the ceil. 



" PosrEEiOK WING With two slcuder tails ; the abdominal fold and anal angle clothed thickly with 

 long hair ; the costal nervure continued to the apex of the wing ; the subcostal branched 

 before the end of the cell ; the cell short, closed obliquely by nervules of equal length joining 

 the third branch of the median nervule a little beyond its base." {Hewitson, I, c.) 



Camena icetas. 



loluns ici'tas, lie .vitsou, 111. Diurii, Lcp., Lycaimdce, p. 44, pl.'xviii. figs. 6, 7, ^ (18G9). 

 (■amena icetas, de Niceville, Butt. lud. iii. \\ 342 (1890). 

 Joltiiis contractus, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 39 (1890). 



"Male. Brilliant ultramarine blue, .interior wing with more than the outer half dark brown, the 

 tuft of hair at the meeting of the wings black. I'osterior wing with tlie costal and outer 

 margins brown. Underside grey, paler towards the outer margins. Eoth wings crossed 

 be3-ond the middle by a linear band of brown ; the outer margin rufous. Posterior wing 

 with the two black si)ots near the anal angle crowned M'ith orange. Expanse If'j- inch."' 

 (/feivitsoi), 1. c.) 



" Female. Both wings black. Fore wing with the lower basal and discal areas pale blue, rather 

 darker towards the base of the wing. Jlind wing with the disc more or loss pale blue ; some 

 indistinct black sultniarginal spots ; anal lobe bright ochreous, as in the male. Cilia wliilisli 

 throughout. Underside: botli wings as in the male." ('le Niceville, 1. c.) 



J. contractus, Leech.— .Vrt/e. Black, ornamented with bright dark blue, which 0!i the primaries 

 torms n patcli extending from the base to the middle of the disc between the median and 

 Bulimcdian nerves, sliglitly encroaching beyond each boundary. On tlio secondaries the blue 

 forms a l)road obii«iue abbrcvintcd hand, its anterior limit being tlio second subcostal norvuie, 

 and its posterior the first nir,|ian, ],nl ihvn-. is a small triangular mark beyond this latter 

 boundary, oxt^Miding to the orange spot at anal angle ; there are some black spots towards 

 the outer edge of the blue band; the abdominal margin is jialer, becoming whitish at the 

 base. Tliere are two tails (,f ciuul lengtli, both black witli while tips. Under surface of 



