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prominent, extended well into the cell and nearly to the hase of 

 the wing ; at the apex they extend outward to the terminal 

 margin ; markings on the hind wing larger in proportion to the 

 size of the insects; only the posterior markings more or less 

 reddish-pink, the rest white, strongly irrorated with black scales. 

 Underside : markings similar to those of the typical form, but only 

 the spots in interspaces 1, 2 and 3 and on the tail in the hind wing 

 reddish pink, the others white, some. slightly tinged along the 

 outer edge with pink. This aberration is variable and unstable 

 and grades into the typical form. The two fly together at the 

 same season and in the same locality. 



Larva. " 2 inches long; pale purple-brown; head and legs 

 shining black ; head small, corneous, sparsely covered with black 

 hairs ; 2nd segment with two short tubercles on each side and a 

 nuchal, transverse, flattened, corneous, tentacular sheath in front ; 

 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th segments each with eight short tubercles, 

 four on each side, the subdorsal series longest ; 7th, 8th, 9th and 

 10th segments each with six tubercles, and llth, 12th and 13th 

 segments each with four shorter tubercles ; each tubercle is red at 

 the apex and purple-black streaked at the base; intervening space 

 between the tubercles with a transverse and a dorsal series of paler 

 purple-black spots ; these latter markings all with pale borders ; 

 7th and 8th segments each with a lateral, short, broad, oblique 

 white band." (Moore.) 



Pupa. " Reddish-ochreous, broad laterally ; head broad and 

 slightly cleft in front ; thorax convex above and beneath, angular 

 at the sides ; wing-cases dilated laterally ; abdominal segments 

 with lateral foliaceous appendages." (Moore.) 



" Occurs in Sikhim up to 8000 feet and is not uncommon in 

 the clearings in April and May. It, especially the female, has a 

 very strong disagreeable musky odour, which perseveres long after 

 the insect is dead and dry." (de Niceville MS.) 



In Tenasserim I got P. philoxenus at elevations of 2000 to 

 4000 feet on the Dawnat range. 



Race lama, Oberthiir. " Smaller than pliiloxenus, Gray ; the 

 wings are shorter and proportionately broader ; the red hairs of 

 the front of the head are rather densely intermingled with black 

 ones ; the prothorax is less red ; the abdomen is black underneath, 

 with the edges of the segments red ; the large white patch on the 

 hind wings between the discoidal veins and the spot at the apex 



of the tail are liable to obliteration In the shape of the 



hind wings this subspecies is less variable than pldloxenus. The 

 males have sometimes the paler ground-colour of the females." 

 (Rothschild.) 



Exp. <$ $ 119-129 mm. (4-69-5-10"). 



Hub. A $ recorded from Kashmir (Rothschild). Originally 

 described from Western China. 



I have followed Rothschild in treating this form as a race of 

 pjtilozenus, but in the Leech collection now in the British Museum 



