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markings ; in a few specimens with an inner postdiscal row of 

 dark diffuse spots on the white of the hind wing; the base of this 

 wing red, the terminal margin with a grey edging traversed by 

 the black veins. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brownish 

 black. 



$. Second form: tailless = ab. butlerianus, Eothsch. Upper- 

 side : fore wing as in the typical form but paler, often with a 

 whitish patch posteriorly. Hind wing indigo-green, streaks of 

 bine scaling as in the $ ; interspace 1 whitish, outwardly merged 

 into a reddish shading round a subterminal velvety-black spot. 

 Underside : fore wing as in the typical $ but paler. Hind wing 

 as in many of the males, bnt with a broad white streak nearly from 

 base in interspace 1. 



$. Third form: tailed = ab. alcanor, Cramer. Upperside, 

 fore w T ing : basal third of cell and a minute spot at base of inter- 

 space 2 vermilion-red ; a velvety-black patch at bases of inter- 

 spaces 1 and 2 ; rest of the wing brown or greyish-brown with 

 black veins and internervular black streaks. Hind wing black, 

 apical third to apical half of cell (ab. distantianus, Eothsch.) and 

 broad streaks at bases of interspaces 1 to 6 white, the latter 

 tinged outwardly with vermilion-red and very variable in length, 

 sometimes entirely absent in one or more of the interspaces 

 mentioned ; lastly a terminal series of vermilion-red admarginal 

 spots that decrease in size from interspaces 1 to 7 ; the red in 

 interspace 1 lengthened, occupying half the interspace but it 

 is generally interrupted by a large subtermiual black spot ; cilia 

 black alternated with white in the interspaces. Underside similar, 

 ground-colour of fore wing paler ; base of hind wing red, terminal 

 spots vermilion-red, markings paler, the anterior admargiual 

 spots ochraceous to greyish-white. Antennae, head, thorax and a 

 line on the abdomen above brownish black, a broad baud on the 

 sides of the abdomen bright ochraceous ; beneath, the palpi, thorax 

 and abdomen dusky black. 



Exp. J $ 120--16G mm. (4-T4-6-56"). 



Hab. India (excluding the North- West, Central India, and 

 Ceylon) ; Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; extending to the Malay 

 Peninsula ; China and Japan. 



Pound alike in the hills and the plains. In the Himalayas, 

 Southern India, Assam, Burma, and Tenasserim up to 5000 ft. 

 Both sexes are entirely inodorous. 



512. Papilio mayo, Atkinson, P. Z. S. 1873. p. 736, pi. 63, fig. 1 ; 

 W.-M. S> de N. J. A. S. B. 1880, p. 237, & 1881, p. 252 ; 

 Rothsch. Nov. Zool. ii, 1895, p. 322 ; Moore (Ileades), Lep. Lid. 

 v, 1901-1903,. p. 201, pi. 450, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 6, rf $ . 

 Papilio cliaricles, Hewitson, A. M. N. H. (4) xiv, 1874, p. 356 $ ; 

 W.-M. $ de N. J. A. S. B. 1880, p. 237. 



c? Upperside rich velvety black. Tore wing with a subter- 

 minal series of greenish-yellow irrorated internervular streaks, 

 sometimes more or less obsolescent. Hind wing : a very broad 



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