1864.] 459 



cilia white ; posterior wings glossed anteriorly with blue ; this portion 

 irrorated with blue atoms ; near the external angle is a large brilliant 

 blue patch, slightly sinuated anteriorly, deeply so posteriorly, not con- 

 nected by any sinuous line with the abdominal margin ; near the mar- 

 gin is a series of from three to five red lunules, the one at the anal 

 angle divided by. the others margined with, a slender light blue line; 

 indentations margined with white; tail broad, spatulate irrorated with 

 green along the nervure. 



" Below : anterior wings black at the base, whitish beyond the dis- 

 coidal cell; the nervures, eight longitudinal striae between the nervures. 

 and the margin itself, fuscous; posterior wings black, more intense than 

 above, irrorated over the basal half, and sometimes beyond, with whitish 

 atoms; near the margin is a series of six red lunules, each divided lon- 

 gitudinally by a slender light blue line; indentations margined with 

 white, a little fulvous at the base; anal angle with an imperfect ocellus, 

 of which the pupil is black, the iris red, marked with a blue crescent. 



" Head, thorax and abdomen, black, irrorated with golden green. 

 (Exp. alar. 5 unc.)'' — E. Douhleday. 



"Most probably only a variety of Pap. Poli/ctot\ Boisd." — G. K. 

 Gray. 



Hnh. — Philippines, (In my collection.) 



Northern India, (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 

 Northern India, Darjeeling, (Coll. E. I. Co.) 



Var <i. Pap. Ganessa. E. Doubleday. 



Pap. Aliacmon, Boisd. MSS. 

 ILih. — Northern India, (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 



y. Pap. Paris. Linne. 



Pap. Paris. QXercV. Icoiies, t. 13. f. 1. (1759). 



Linn. Syst. Nat. II. p. 745. n. 3. (1767). 



Drury, I. t. 12. f. 1, 2. (1770). 



Cram., II. t. 103. f. A. B. (1779). 



Herbst, Pap. t. 14. f. 1, 2. (1784). 



Fab. Ent, Syst. III. i. p. 1. n. 1. (1793). 



Donovan, Ins. China, t. 23. (1798). 



Esper. Ausl. Schmett. t. 2. f. 1. (1801). 



Godt. Encyc. IX. p. 67. n. 116. (1819). 



Boisduval, Sp. Gen. I. p. 208. n. 22. (1836). 



E. Doubled., List. Lej). Brit. Mus. Pt. I. p. 4. (1844). 



Diurnal Lepidopt. I. p. 11. n. 52. (1846). 



