PAPILIO. 23 



the last discal white spot reaches mostly to the suhmeclian nervui'e 

 (vein 1), the anterior one is very large in the cf , small or divided 

 into two spots, or obliterated in the 5 " (Itothschild, t. o.) 



Exp. <$ $ 102-114 mm. (4-02-4-5"). 



Hab. S. India : JYilgiri Hills ; Travancore. 



COON GROUP. 



c? . "Wings very long and narrow. Fore wing : costa slightly 

 arched, apex broadly rounded, termen S straight, slightly 

 convex, in both sexes very oblique ; dorsuin very short, less than 

 half as long as the costa ; cell long and narrow, considerably more 

 than half length of wing ; upper discocellular very little shorter 

 than the middle ; vein 10 from upper third, 11 from beyond the 

 middle of subcostal. Hind wing with long spatulate tail ; costa 

 straight, short ; termen very long, broadly scalloped ; veins 4 and 5 

 approximate at base. Antennae slightly less than half length 

 of fore wing ; club narrow, gradual. <5 abdominal fold narrow, 

 abrupt at apex ; anal valves conspicuous, with a parting on the 

 upperside. 



Key to the forms of the Coon Group. 



a. Hind wing upperside : spatulate portion of tail 

 black. 



'. Hind wing upperside : more than half apical 

 ortion of cell svhite 



P. doubkdayi, p. 23. 



b. Hind wing upperside : spatulate portion of tail ' ISIS} P' 



red P. rhodifer, p. 24. 



492. Papilio doubledayi, Wallace, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv, 1865, p. 42, 

 note ; Rothsch. Nov. Zool. ii, 1895, p. 253 ; Moore (Losaria), Lep. 

 Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 184, pi. 438, tigs. 1, 1 a, 1 b, rf $ . 



Race cachareusis. 



Papilio cacharensis, Butler, A. M. N. H. (5) xvi, 1885, p. 344 ; 

 Moore (Losaria), Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 185, pi. 439, figs. 1, 



Papilio doubledayi cacharensis, Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii, 1895, 

 p. 253. 



c? . Upperside dull black, paler on the fore than on the hind 

 wing. Fore wing with very conspicuous pale streaks, two in each 

 interspace that extend well into the cell, but do not reach the 

 termeu, where the dull black ground-colour forms a broadish 

 transverse band. Hind wing black, with in fresh specimens in 

 certain lights a beautiful blue gloss ; a central large white area 

 composed of a white patch in the apical two-thirds of the cell and 



