422 Mr. H. J. Elwes’ catalogue of the 
the case during the rainy season. I have seen and taken 
Teinopalpus as high as 10,500 ft. on the top of Tonglo, 
and also at Tendong and Rikisum, and I believe it 
occurs as far eastward as Buxa. The pupa has been 
found by Mr. Knyvett attached to the leaves of Daphne 
nipalensis, a plant which is used for making a fine, 
strong paper in Nepal, and a female has been bred by 
him from one of these pupe. This plant is probably the 
food-plant of the larva, and grows at 7—9000 ft. in the 
virgin forests where the insect occurs. 
393. Ornithoptera rhadamanthus. 
Ornithoptera rhadamanthus, Boisd., Sp. Gen., i., p. 180 
(1836). 
Common in the hot valleys at 2—3000 ft., where it 
flies with a slow sailing flight about the flowering trees, 
which it frequents from May to October. 
394. Ornithoptera pompeus. 
Ornithoptera pompeus, Cram., Pap. Ex. i., t. 25 a@ 
(1775). 
Not so common as the last, but has a wider range of 
elevation, and occurs during a longer period of the year. 
395. Papilio Astorion. 
Papilio Astorion, Westw., Ann. Nat. Hist., ix., p. 37 
(1842) ; Are. Ent., ii., t. 66, fig. 1 (1844). 
? Papilio chara, Westw., l.c., p. 37, l.c., fig. 2. 
2 Papilio varuna, White, Entom., i., p. 280 (1842). 
This species is not uncommon in both sexes at low 
elevations in Sikkim, and found up to 7000 ft. It occurs 
from April till December. The question of priority of 
nomenclature is doubtful, but, bearing in mind that the 
female of the Malayan form or species described by 
White differs from the Himalayan one, and has not 
been found at any intermediate point, I prefer to keep it 
under Westwood’s name, which was undoubtedly given 
to the Himalayan one. Seven females of the Malayan 
form varuna in the British Museum all have a distinct 
and well-marked whitish patch on the hind margin of 
the fore wing, which I have never seen in Sikkim speci- 
mens. ‘The male also seems to differ somewhat in the 
