LEPTOCIRCITS. TEINOPALPUS. / 



Exp. <5 ? 44-50 mm. (176-nearly 2"). 



Hab. Burma ; Tenasserim ; extending into the Malayan Sub- 

 region as far as Java. 



In October 1892, on the Taungjah Pass over the Dawnat Eange 

 in Tenasserim, the late Mr. de !N"iceville and I found a $ of this 

 form ovipositing on the underside of the leaves of a creeper with 

 compound leaves, each leaf consisting of three leaflets. This plant 

 was subsequently identified by Dr. David Prain as Illigera burm- 

 anica, King, family Combretacece. The eggs, of which we collected 

 t\vo or three, were spherical, smooth, pale green, almost trans- 

 parent, and of the usual papilionid form. 



Genus TEINOPALPUS. 



Teinopalpus, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xix, 1843, p. 131 ; 

 Moore, Lep. Ind, v, 1901-1903, p. 127. 



Type, T. imperialis, Hope, from N.E. India. 



Eange. Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Assam ; "Western Upper Burma ; 

 Tenasserim ; C. China. 



c? $ . Fore wing broadly triangular ; costa arched ; apex acute, 

 slightly produced and falcate in the J ; termen slightly concave in 

 <S , straight in $ ; tornus rounded ; dorsum straight, about three- 

 fourths the length of the costa ; cell rather short, not quite half 

 length of wing ; upper discocellular very short, not half length of 

 middle ; middle long, concave, about twice length of lower ; vein 9 

 from apex of cell or from a little beyond ; 10 and 11 free. Hind 

 wing, d 1 : costa arched ; termen scalloped or zigzag, broadly toothed 

 at apices of all the veins except vein 4, at apex of this it is 

 produced into a long slender non-spatulate tail ; dorsum slightly 

 incurved, without an abdominal fold; $ differs from the <3 as 

 follows : the termen produced at apices of veins 2, 3, and 5 into 

 short tails, and at apices of veins 4 and 6 into long narrow non- 

 spatulate tails ; cell short, upper discocellular much longer than 

 middle. Antennae short, about one-third length of fore wing ; club 

 short, broad, somewhat abrupt; head produced in front, tufted, 

 palpi porrect ; viewed sideways the projecting front and palpi have 

 somewhat the appearance of a bird's beak ; legs slender. 



Key to the forms of Teinopalpus. 



n. Upperside of hind wing : discal yellow fascia 



extended into apex of cell .............. T. imperialis, p. 8. 



b. Upperside of hind wing : discal yellow fascia 



not extended into apex of cell .......... T. imperatrir, p. 9. 



$$ 

 a. Upperside of hind wing : upper discal patch 



grey or violet-grey .................... T. imperialis, p. 8. 



/>. Upperside of hind wing : upper discal patch 



diffuse dusky black ................... , T. imperatrix, p. 9. 



