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the lower and outer part of the wing is varied with lilac- 

 white. At the end of the upper median nervule is a long, 

 slender tail, and a shorter one at the end of the lowest. The 

 female is much larger than the male, and is broadly banded 

 with green and lilac ; and the orange band on the hind-wings 

 is wanting. There are three long tails on the hind-wings, the 

 shortest in the middle, and the longest nearest to the anal 

 angle. 



This splendid Butterfly is found in the forests at Sikkim, at 

 a height of from 6,000 to 10,000 feet, and has also been met 

 with in Central China. The male flies, in the morning, about 

 high trees, but may be attracted by ordure, or may descend to 

 water, like Apaiura iris. The female is very rarely taken, as is 

 the case with many other Butterflies, of which the habits of the 

 males are well known. The pupa has been found attached to 

 the leaves of DapJme 7iipalensis, on which the larva no doubt 

 feeds. It is a shrub resembling the mezereon, which grows at 

 a height of from 7,000 to 9,000 feet in the mountain forests, 

 and is used for paper making. 



SUB-FAMILY III. EQUITIN.E. 



Palpi short; antenn?e generally long and slender, with the 

 club more or less gradually formed. Fore-wings with the 

 costal nervure nearly always five-branched, and with the upper 

 disco cellular nervule well developed. Median nervure with a 

 short cross-nervule near the base, which rarely extends as far as 

 the sub median; hind-wings, with the pre-costal nervure bifid (as 

 is also the case in the genera Sericinus, Westwood, and Teino- 

 palpus, Hope, but not in any other genera placed in the pre- 

 ceding Sub-families ; and with a cross-nervule connecting the 

 costal and sub-costal nervures near the base) Hind-wings often 

 dentated and tailed. 



