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ORIENTAL ENTOMOLOGY.
Cliaraxes with tho wings ou the upper side straw-white, the foi-e ones harág the costa, a conjoined spot at the
cxti'emity of the discoidal cell, and a broad apical margin of black, the latter bearing a single row of about eight
white spots ; tlie hiud wings bicaudate, with a subapical narrow fascia of bro^sh-black, in which are two rows of
small whitish lunules; the tails bluish-grey, the inner ones preceded by two blue-white spots ; all the wings beneath
pearly-white ; the costa of the fore ™igs (except at the tip) and two narrow fascice common to all the wings, and
more or less edged with black, as well as the apical mai'gin duU fulvous ; the hind wings with a submarginal row of
black dots ; abdomen brown.
Expansion of the fore wiugs 34 inches,
Inhabits Malwah in the East Indies. In the Collection of Captain Boys.
OBSEKVATIONS.—This pretty species is imiqiie in the fine collection recently brought home by
Captain Boys, who has kindly alloTrecl me to fig'ure it and other new species. It is closely allied to
the Assamese Char. Endamippns, Donbleday (Ann. Soc. Ent. France^ 1843, p. 218, pi. 8), which I
have received from Major Jenkins, but differs in its smaller size, the direction of the dark patch at the
apex of the discoidal cell^ the single row of white spots in the broad dark apical margin, the dark costa
of the fore wings beneath, the single minute black dot in the discoidal cell adjoining the costa, the
more regular- fascia at the extremity of the discoidal ceU^ tlie want of the black oblique line in the
anal area of the hind wings, and in the bro-mi abdomen, which is pure white in Eudamippus.
FIGUEE 3.
AMATHUSIA PHILARCHUS. WESTW.
Amathusia nigi-o-cceruleis viridi-tinctis apicibus anticamm late nigi-is pimcto albo snbapicali; fascia lata obliqua
pone medium argenteo-cfsrulescenti, Uneohs nonnuUis obscm-is prope medium alarimi; posticis concoloribus
ángulo anah caudato ; subtus fusco-griseis, fusco irroratis ; striga tenui fusca eommuni oceUisque duobus obscm-is
pone medium posticarum serieque submarginali fere indistincta punctorum alborum.
Amathusia with the wings of a blue-black colom- tmged with gi'eeu, the tips of the fore ones broadly black, with
a white dot near the apex; beyond the middle of the fore wings is a broad obHque silvery blue fascia, having several
dark blue-black obscure short lines near and below the tip of the discoidal cell; the hind wiugs are concolorous, with
the anal angle tailed; beneath, the wings are of an obscure gi-ejdsh-brown, freckled all over with mhiute brown
iiTorations; a slender brown streak extends across aU the wings (crossing the middle of the hind wings and
extending from the apical angle of the fore ™ g s to the anal angle of the hind ones, where there is also another
short broivn parallel streak) ; half way between the middle of the hind wings and the anal angle are two very
obsem-e oceUi siuTounded by whitish rings, and there is a very indistinct row of minute whitish dots, running
parallel with the apical margin of all the wings ; the body is entirely bromi.
Expansion of the fore wings 3 | inches.
Inhabits the Island of Ceylon. In the Collection of R. Templeton, Esq.
OBSEKVATIONS.—This species is nearly allied to Amathusia Paralekta of Horsfield (Lepid. Java,
tab. 6, fig. 4), a species which seems to range all over India*, as Dr. Eoyle brought it from the
Himalayas, figuring it in his work ou that part of India from a native drawing. The dull colours of
the underside of the wings of the present species, when closed, as well as of A. Paralekta, give the
insects all the appearance of so many withered leaves, which deception is greatly increased by the
dark streak which runs along the middle of the wings, and which may be easily mistaken for the
midi-ib of the leaf.
The insect before us is at once distinguished from A. Paralekta by its colours, and by wanting the
small talc like spots in the fore wings.
The plant figured is the Orchidaceous Cryptochilus sanguínea ofWallich, from Northern India.
* The continental specimens ai-e much more variegated in their markings, their fore wings more acutely pointed at the tips, and
the tails much longer, than in Dr. Horsfield's fig\u-e of the .Javanese specimens.
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