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satisfied that the differences are constant. The Fabiician type agrees with examples from 

 Sylhet" (B Idler, T:xs.ns. Linn. Soc, Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 544 (1877); Minelra 

 gambrisius, Doubleday and Hewitson {nee Fabricius), Gen. Diurn. Lep , vol. u, pi. li, • 

 fig, 2(1850);/'. gambrisius, var. lilaeinus, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 143. «• ^> P'- ^i' ^S- 

 1,'jemale (1883) ; P. sylla, Donovan, Ins. China, pi. xxxviii (i799)- 



Mr. Butler records this form from Assam and Nepal {sic\ Penang and Malacca and m 

 Major Marshall's collection are numerous specimens from Upper Tenasserim. many o which 

 have the patch of blue on the upperside of the forewing on the inner margm and the two 

 similar subbasal bands on the hiadwing quite as distinct as examples fmm the Malay Penm- 

 sula in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, and others with this colour becommg gradually less 

 till they are almost as green throughout as the typical P. gambrisius Son.e specm^ens of P. 

 maeiZs from Upper Tenasserim also have the white discal band of the forewmg almos 

 o erielycontinu'oustothe costa. being occasionally only slightly broken at the subcos al 

 interspace where the white spot is divided by a diffused blackish Ime ; the discal band also 

 continued along the costa to the apex, but sordid-white and opaque, not semi-diaphanous, 

 which characters are distinctive of the form «//.«/». It appears therefore, from our speci- 

 mens that both P gambrisius and P lilaeinus occasionally assume the white apex to the fore- 

 w'g of i-. apiek and that though P lilaeinus may be quite const..t in the Malay 

 P Isula, it becomes gradually merged into the typical form P. gambr^s^us in Upp 

 Tenasserim. On this subject Mr. Distant writes :-" Many reasons advoca e the view that 

 lenajenm Butler, is but a slight local variety of P gambrtsms, Fabncius. 



(Rhop: mIT p. -44 ) Mr. W. Doherty has shown me specimens of P lilaeinus taken by 

 him on Great Nicobar. 



440. Parthenos virens, Moore. 



p. virens, Moore, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fourth series, vol. xx, p. 47 (1877)- 



Habitat : Calicut, Malabar coast ; South India. 



Expanse : 375 to 4'6o inches. 



Description : " Form and pattern of/', gambrisius; ground-colour of the wings light brassy 

 ereen Forewing with the white spots as in P eyaneus ; black markings not so prominent, 

 St somewhat confluent and leaving little interspaces between the marginal series, the sub- 

 xnarginal row on /«W«/m^ being very broadly conical." (Moore, \c.) 



P virens appears to be a sufficiently distinct species. The colouration of the upper- 

 ^ V ■ „ „^ii^,„f.,. flTnn in P o-ambrisius, and even more distinct from r. 

 side is of a different tone bem^^^^^^^ ^-^^ °f ^^^ ^-^^"^ ^" ^^^ ^^^^^^^ 



::«eareril';^^edintonecon^^ spot, thus giving the band a more conti- 



mterspace aie usua y j submedian interspace in this species and in 



r^riri^t^Slylbtler t^^^^^^ ^ack spots on the uppersicle of the hindwing 



tlamnd inwardly more convex than in P ^...^..•.•«.. and the whole outer border is 

 blacker" than in that species, very markedly so in some specimens. ^ , ,, r 



tLc are numeroL specimens of this species in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from 

 Calicut and Trevandmm ; it also occurs in the Wynaad and North Canara. 



441. PartHeaOS eyaneus, Moore. (Plate XXI, Fig. 95 $ )• 



P cy.nens, Moore, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fourth series, vol. xx. p. 46 (:S„) ; iden. id . Lap. Cey.. 

 vol. i, p. 46. Pl. xxiv, figs. I, vnaso; i«> larvce and /«/^ (iSSi). 



Habitat : Ceylon. 



EXPANSE : ^ , 3- 75 to 4-00 ; ? . 4-25 to 4-50 inches. 



« TT.rn. ^nd oattern of P gambrisius from Sylhet, but of larger size, the 

 Description: "Form and Pattern o ^ . .^„.,- ,,o„,i,,e„t, the ^ 



