8 PAPIL1OXIDJE. 



483. Teinopalpus imperialis (PI. XI, fig. 80), HOIK, Trans. Linn. 



Soc. xix, 1843, p. 131, pi. 11, figs. 1, 2, <?; Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 



1901-1903, p. 128, pi. 414, figs. 1, 1 o-l c, <J 2 

 Teinopalpus parryise, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. xix, 1843, p. 131, 



pi. 11, figs. 3 &4, 2-- 

 Teinopalpus imperialis, race himalaicus, Rothsch. Nov. Zool. v, 1898, 



p. 002. 

 Teinopalpus himalaicus, Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 130, 



pi. 415, figs. 1, 1 , rf 2 . 



d . Uppers ide black, densely irrorated with green scales. Fore 

 wing : an outwardly oblique, slightly concave subbasal band and a 

 narrow terminal edging jet-black due to the ground-colour there 

 being devoid of the green scaling ; beyond the subbasal band the 

 irroration of scales is a much brighter greeu, especially along the 

 outer edge of the subbasal band itself ; but along obscure, broad, 

 convergent discal and postdiscal transverse bands and along a sub- 

 terminal much narrower band, the green scaling thins out and 

 the black ground-colour of the wing shows through ; in some 

 specimens, owing to the transparency of the wings, the rich 

 ochraceous-brown colour of the underside gives the black on these 

 bands a reddish tint. Hind wing : basal area margined outwardly 

 by a narrow irregularly sinuous band devoid of greeu scaling, 

 succeeded by an upper discal bright chrome-yellow patch that 

 spreads from base of interspace 3 across the apex of the cell and 

 bases of interspaces 4 and 5 to the costa ; this patch is bluntly 

 angulated outwards in interspace 5, stained with orange anteriorly 

 and bordered outwardly by black which is widest above : below the 

 patch a white line extends to the dorsurn ; the postdiscal area is 

 deep dark green, margined inwardly by diffuse dark grey- and 

 followed outwardly by a subterminal series of lunular markings, 

 the tornal and upper two or three of which are yellow, the rest 

 bright green ; tail tipped with yellow. Underside : basal area of both 

 fore and hind wing densely covered with green scales. Fore wing : 

 terminal two-thirds rich ochraceous brown, the green of the basal 

 area bordered by black : discal and postdiscal bands also black, 

 widened and diffusely coalescent posteriorly ; an incomplete, very 

 slender subterminal black line and broader black terminal edging, 

 neither of which reaches to the apex. Hind wing much as on the 

 upperside, but the yellow markings broader. Antennae dark red ; 

 head, thorax and abdomen black, covered somewhat densely with 

 green hairs and scales. $ much larger, differs also in coloration 

 and markings as follows: Upperside, fore wing: the irroration 

 of green scales on the terminal two-thirds restricted to a sub- 

 terminal moderately broad band diffuse along its inner edge, and a 

 medial somewhat ill-defined similar band that is bordered both on 

 the inner and outer sides by diffuse dusky black ; this is succeeded 

 by two broad diffuse transverse dark grey bands, the outer of the 

 two edged on its outer side narrowly with black, followed by a 

 subterminal green band and terminal velvety-black margin. Hind 

 wing: the upper discal yellow patch so conspicuous in the J, 



