( :534 ) 



(J ?. PapiUo akmmor Felder, Vnh. :. h. Gi». Wim p. 3-J4. n. 4(14 (18(J4) (mm. mul.) : id., Rrim- 



Xoaira. Lep. I. p. 12'.>. t. 20. f. d (^J) (1805) (Ind. sept ) ; Hanso. I'nt.,»i,rh. lib. .IZ/hi. p 54 



f. ( ? ) (1803). 

 (J ? . Pajiilir, rhiUniir. Standing. & Schatz, Ejtnt. Schmelt. I. p. 9 (1884) : Elwcs, 7>. £«/. .Soc. /,,/„(/. 



p. 428. n. 410 (1888) (Sikkim ; not uncommon in the lower valleys and up to oOOO or 6000 feet, 



from April to October) ; Manders, ihid. p. 535. n. 190 (189U) (Shan States) ; Leech, liutlerjl. 



of China, etc. p. 549 (1893) (Central and Western China) ; Haase, UnUrsuch. iib. Mim. p 53. 



t. 5.f.33(?). 34(cJ)(1893). 

 (J ?. Pajiilio (Panosminpsis) rhflenor, Wood-Mason & NictSv, Joum. As. Soi: Beng. p. 374. n. 174 



(188G) (Cachar ; " Panosininjjsis" nom. nud.'.): Xic^v., Gazetteer of Sil.kim p. 171. n. 468 



(1894) (Sikkim : from April to October, up to 6000 feet ; rare). 

 <J ?. Sninia rlit'tnm; Swinhoe, Tr. Eiit. Sw: l.oiitl. p. 312. ii. 378 (1893) (Kbasia Hills). 



c?. Fareiuings : the outer margin is sekloin convex, instead of straight or feebly 

 concave: the red mark at the base above is seldom entirely obliterated, a few red 

 scales being visible under a lens in almost every individual ; as Mr. Elwes (I.e.) has 

 already pointed out, many individuals have the hinder angle white. 



Hindwhigs : above, the anal ocellus has sometimes almost disappeared ; in in.anv 

 examjiles it is large, and white instead of red, or it is reddisli anteriorly, white behind : 

 in the lower median cellule there is often a white or reddish lunule, or a complete 

 ring. Below, there are usually two small black spots at the anal angle within 

 the red band along the abdominal margin ; the anterior of these sjwts disap^iears 

 sometimes (as in the type of Felder's P. «/cme?ior) ; the lower median cellule is in 

 certain specimens filled up with red, exclusive of three rounded spots; in other 

 individuals these black spots are so enlarged that there remain only three small red 

 markings; between the middle median and the ujiper discoidal nervules there stand 

 from to 3 submarginal red spots, of which that between the two ujiper median veins 

 is often ring-shaped. 



?. The red mark at the base of the forewings above is sometimes reduced to 

 a narrow streak situated along the subcostal nervure ; this streak reaches in one 

 of my Sikkim specimens half-way to the apex of the cell. The discal white patch 

 of the hindwings consists usually of five spots, of which the posterior one, standing 

 between the upper median nervules, is liable to obliteration ; the cellular spot is 

 sometimes very small ; the anal, submarginal, and marginal red spots are very variable 

 in size and shape; there are from 2 to 4 submarginal sjiots. The hindwings are not 

 constant in shape, some specimens having the tail much more prolonged than others. 



The Chinese individuals of tiie male sex never exhibit I lie white colour at the 

 anal angle of the forewings to such a degree as the Indian ones do; the bluish 

 scaling on the upper surface of the hindwings between the uiijier median and the 

 subcostal nervules is much sparser, often almost absent ; the hindwings are decidedly 

 narrower behind, more deeply scalloped, and at the end of the upper median nervule 

 often produced into a conspicuously prominent tooth. 



The Chinese females — of which two specimens only are known, one in Mr, Lei'ch's 

 collection, at present inaccessible, the other in my own collection — dift'er in the 

 dentation of the hindwings being sharper, in the white di.scal |iatch being rather 

 reduced or almost absent, and in the anterior of the two black spots at the anal angle 

 of the hindwings being enlarged and joined to the ba.sal black spot of the lower 

 median cellule; above, the hindwings have a minute red spot before the middle of 

 that cellule, nearly as in llaase's figure of the suj^posed female of P. alcmetior Feld. 

 (Hiuise, I.e.). 



Fekler's P. alcmenor is not worthy of being kept separate as an aberration. 



