PAPILIO. 53 



others, P. demetriits, Cramer, and -P. macilentus, Janson, are recorded 

 from Japan and China. 



515. Papilio protenor, Cramer, Pap. J5.rot. i, 1775, p. 77, pi. 49, 

 figs. A, B ; Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i, 1857, p. 98 ; 

 Rolhsch. Nov. Zool. ii, 1895, p. 331 ; Mackinnon fy de N. Jour. 

 Bomb. N. H. Soc. xi, 1898, p. 592, pi. w,fig. 23 ; Moore (Sainia), 

 Lep. 2nd. v, 1901-1903, p. 188, pi. 444, figs. 1, la-Id, larva, 



d" . Upperside velvety indigo-blue black, duller on the fore wing 

 than on the hind wing. Fore wing with pale adnervular streaks 

 broadened along the terminal margin and extended well into the 

 cell. Hind wing : a broad pale yellowish-white subcostal streak ; 

 interspaces 4 to 6 irrorated with bluish scales ; tornal angle 

 marked with red. Underside : fore wing dull black ; adnervular 

 streaks distinctly grey and much broader than on the upperside. 

 Hind wing : ground-colour as on the upperside, a large irregularly- 

 shaped patch at the tornal angle that extends into interspace 2, 

 and subterrninallunules in interspaces, 2, 6, and 7 dull pinkish-red, 

 cell irrorated more or less with a sprinkling of blue scales ; the 

 tornal patch with a black, outwardly 

 blue-edged, round medial spot, and inter- 

 spaces 4 and 5 with subterminal irrora- 

 tions of blue scales. Antennae black ; 

 head, thorax and abdomen dark brownish 

 black. $ similar. Upperside : ground- 

 colour deep brownish black ; adnervular 

 streaks on fore wing yellowish; irroration 

 of blue scales on outer portions of hind 

 wing more dense ; no white subcostal 

 streak ; red patch at tornal angle large 

 with an oval medial black spot ; another 

 similar black spot subterminally in inter- 

 space 2 posteriorly bordered by a crescent- 

 shaped red mark. Underside similar to 

 that in the male, differs in the adnervular 

 streaks on the fore wing that are broader 

 and paler ; on the hind wing the torual 

 red patch is paler and larger, and is ex- 

 tended broadly anteriorly and outwards 

 towards the termen into interspace 2 : 

 in the latter it coalesces with a broad subterminal black-centred 

 red ocellus ; the irroration of blue scales in interspace 5 with a 

 small subterminal red lunule below it. Antennae, head, thorax 

 and abdomen as in the c? 



Exp. 6 ? 100-133 mm. (3-95-5-35"). 



Hob. The Himalayas, from Mussoorie to Sikhim in the low hot 

 valleys, but ascending up to 5000 ft. ; the hills of Assam, Burma 

 and Tenasserira, extending to W. China and Siam. 



Fig. 10. Hind wing of 

 Papilio protenor. 



