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Ujiper surface brownish-black ; a broad transverse bluish-green band, 

 common to both wings, narrowed at the extremities, and separated, to- 

 wards the apex of the primaries, into rounded spots. 



Secondaries obtusely dentate, a sub-marginal row of five irregular 

 bluish-green lunes ; expanse 4.13 inches. 



Below, paler, with the band and spots as above, and having a nacre- 

 ous reflection ; six red dashes on the posterior wings ; one transverse, 

 near the base, separated from the common band by a deep black line ; 

 four lunulate, on a darker ground color than the rest of the wing, mid- 

 way between the common band and the sub-marginal lunules; the sixth, 

 on the anal margin, extends from it to the end of the bluish-green band. 



Body black above ; cinereous below. 



Hah. — China, 9 (In niy collection.) 



China, Moluccas, Papua, Java, (Coll. Boisd.) 

 India, Penang, Sandwich Islands, (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 

 Northern India, Java, Canara, (Coll. E. I. Co.) 



Boisduval remarks "that specimens from Java are always much less 

 than those from the Moluccas." 



" At Masuri this is one of the commonest, but not the least beautiful, 

 of our butterflies; it appears early in May, and is found till the end of 

 the rains in September. It usually frequents the top of oak trees, 

 where it flits about with a jumping or jerking flight, and is somewhat 

 difiicult to capture from its quickness, and the height at which it keeps." * 



Var. a. Pap. Sarpedon. G. R. Gray, Cat. Lep. Br. Mus. Pt. I. p. 28. n. 135. PI. 4. f. 1. 



(1852). 

 G. R. Gray, List. Lep. Brit. Mus. Pt. L p. 39. (1856). 

 " With the oblique band on all the wings narrower." — Gray. 

 //./?>.— Ceylon, (Coll. Brit. .AIus.) 



Var. /i. Fap. Sarpedon. G. R. Gray, Cat. Lep. Br. Mus. Pt. I. p. 28. n. 135. (1852). 



" List. Lep. Brit. Mus. Pt. I. p. 39. (1856). 



Westw. Partingt. in Brit. Encyc. Butt. (1837). 

 " With the oblique band on all the wings extremely broad in the 

 middle."— (z'. R. Gray. 



The figure of this diflFers also from my specimen in having a black 

 anal spot encircled with a white iris. Lucas' figure is much less than 

 my specimen, and has but four sub-marginal lunules instead of five. 



«Capt. T. Hutton. Pruc. Ent. Soc. V. p. 51. (184b). 



