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PAPILIONID.E. 



Papilio helenus mooreanus, RntJtsch. Nov. Zool. ii, 1895, p. 286. 

 Charus mooreanus, Moore, Lep. 2nd. v, 1901-1903, p. 211. 



cJ ? . Upperside brownish black to rich velvety black. Fore 

 wing : four slender lines in cell and outer internervular hairy streaks 

 that vary in width brown, these latter give in many specimens 

 a golden-brown appearance in certain lights to the terminal half 

 of the wing. Hind wing : a more or less quadrate white spot in 

 interspace 7, with two more elongate similar spots in the inter- 

 spaces below that form a 

 conspicuous upper discal 

 white patch, the outer 

 margin of which is zigzag; 

 this is followed by a series 

 of admarginal more or 

 less imperfect claret-red 

 rings in interspaces 1 to 5 

 that enclose large intense 

 black oval spots. The 

 number of these rings is 

 very variable, the tornal 

 one is always present, the 

 rest partially or com- 

 pletely obsolescent. Cilia 

 black alternated with 

 white. Underside: duller, 

 more opaque black. Fore 

 wing similar to the upper- 

 side but the cellular and 

 internervular streaks formed of scales, not hairs, greyish white 

 in colour and more clearly denned, the latter anteriorly do not 

 reach the terminal margin but extend to the apex of the cell. 

 Hind wing : markings similar to those on the upperside, but 

 the upper spot of the discal white patch generally crescentic in 

 shape, the whole patch generally smaller and the spots that 

 compose it divided by the black veins ; the admarginal series of 

 rings are dull red and only the tornal and the ring in inter- 

 space 2 are more or less complete, the rest of the series is reduced 

 to a curved subterminal line of lunules that extends from inter- 

 spaces 3 to 7 ; in addition there is an inner broad red lunular spot 

 in interspace 2 in continuation of the inner portion of the red 

 ring at the tornal angle ; both the lunule and the inner portion 

 of the tornal ring traversed by a line of white scales. Antennae, 

 head, thorax and abdomen black ; the abdomen beneath touched 

 with grevish white along the sides. 

 Exp. J $ 1 00-140 mm. (3'96-5'52"). 



Hab. The Himalayas at no great elevation from Mussoorie to 

 Sikhim ; the hills of Assam, Burma and Tenasserim, extending 

 to Siam, China and the Malay Peninsula. 



Race daksha, Harnpson. Similar to the typical form, from 



Fig. 8. a. Papilio helenus, Linn. 



b. Venation of anterior portion of 

 hind wing. 



