PAPILIONI I.).!-: 



Genus I. TEINOPALPUS Hope. 

 Hope, Trans, of Linn. Soc. xix. 131. (1843). 



Head large, produced anteriorly. 

 Eyes oval, prominent. 

 Maxillce rather long. 

 Labial Palpi long, porrect, convergent ; basal joint short ; second long, clothed with scales and 



long hairs ; third joint about half the length of the second, pointed, slightly bent downwards, 



clothed with appressed scales. 

 Antenna; short, gradually clavate, arched ; the club short, slightly truncate. 

 Thorax stout. 



Anterior Wings triangular, slightly falcate ; the upper disco-cellular nervule very short ; the lower 



discoidal nervule curving upwards ; the third subcostal nervule thrown off precisely at the end 



of the cell ; median and submedian nervules united by a baseo-median nervule. 

 Posterior Wings dentate, caudate ; the precostal nervure two-branched, the inner nervule bent 



downwards, and united to the costal nervure. 

 Legs moderately robust. Anterior Tibia? with a short stout spur, covered by a tuft of hair. Tarsi 



spiny, the first joint about equal in length to the others combined. Claws simple, curved. 

 Abdomen of moderate length, curved in the male. 



This beautiful genus, of which one species only is yet known, may be distinguished at a glance from the others of 

 this family by its long porrect palpi. There is little else in its structure to separate it from Ornithoptera or Papilio, 

 though some of its peculiarities indicate an approach to Thais, a genus in which the palpi are more developed than in 

 any other of the PapilionidaB, with the exception of Teinopalpus. 



The posterior wings differ materially in the two sexes ; in the male they are dentate, one-tailed, in the female three- 

 tailed. 



Of the habits of this genus nothing is known beyond the fact of its inhabiting the highest ranges of the Himalayas, 

 especially towards the frontiers of Assam, and there it seems to be of very rare occurrence. 



TEINOPALPUS Hope. 



1. T. impehialis Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 131. (1843). 

 Westwood, Arc. Ent. t. 59. (1843). 

 ? T. Parryite Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 132. (1843). 

 Westwood. Arc Ent. t. 60. (1843). 



North-Eastern India. 



