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black with adnervular pale streaks ou either side of the veins beyoiid 

 the cell ; cilia short, black, alternated with pale buffy white in the 

 middle of the interspaces. Hind wing : the abdominal fold, the 

 apical half obliquely of interspace 1, the termen broadly, the base 

 of the cell and the costal area up to and including the basal half 

 of interspace 7 velvety black, the rest of the wing rich silky 

 yellow ; the veins prominently but narrowly black ; the inner 

 margin of the terminal black border produced inwards into promi- 

 nent cone-shaped markings in the interspaces. All specimens 

 have one or more postdiscal black spots in the interspaces, but 

 never a complete series ; in interspace 2 and sometimes also in 

 interspace 3 these spots coalesce with the cone-shaped projections 

 of the terminal black border. Underneath the abdominal fold is 

 a dense mass of buffy-white scented cottony pubescence. Underside 

 similar, the adnervular pale streaks on the fore wing broader and 

 more prominent. Hind wing : dorsal margin broadly black, with 

 an edging of long soft black hairs ; interspace 1 with a large oval 

 posldiscal and a terminal black spot ; interspace 2 with the post- 

 discal black spot generally separate from the cone-shaped pro- 

 jection of the black terminal border ; the apical and lateral margins 

 of interspaces 2-6 pale yellow irrorated with black scales. 

 Antennae, head and thorax black, the collar narrowly crimson ; 

 abdomen yellow, shaded above with black ; beneath : the thorax 

 with a large lateral patch of crimson, the anal segment promi- 

 nently buff -coloured. $ . Upper and under sides similar to those 

 in the J i but with the following differences : Fore wing : the 

 adnervular pale streaks broader and more prominent. Hind wing : 

 the black at base and along the costal margin broader, occupying 

 fully one-third of the cell, the area above it and above vein 7, 

 interrupted however, in interspace 7 near the apex of wing, by a 

 transverse yellow mark which is sometimes subobsolete ; a post- 

 discal series of large oval black spots, those in interspaces 2 and 3 

 often joined on the upperside to the cone-shaped terminal black 

 marks ; dorsal margin also more broadly black, destitute of the 

 fringe of black hairs arid of course of the abdominal fold. Anteana?, 

 head and thorax as in the c? : abdomen dark brownish black above. 



Exp. d 1 ? 150-180 mm. (5-95-7'15"). 



Hob. Sikhiru ; Bhutan ; Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; the 

 Audamans and the Malayan Subregion to Sumatra. 



Andaman specimens (Jieliaconoides, Moore) are often both rf 

 and $ darker, with the adnervular pale streaks on the fore wing 

 almost if not quite obsolete on the upperside. The insect, how- 

 ever, has not been sufficiently differentiated to form even a distinct 



480. ' Papilio seacus, Felder (Ornithoptera), Wien. Ent. Monats. iv, 



1860, p. 225, $ ; Rothsch. (Troides) Nov. Zool. \\, 1895, p. 223 ; 



Moore (Ornithoptera), Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 148, pi. 422, 



%s. ], lo, J $. 



Ornithoptera rhadamanthus, Bolsdui-al (nee rhadamantus, Lucas), 



