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with yellowish-brown scales. Fore wing : a small white spot on 

 middle discocellular and a subterminal and terminal row of small 

 white specks that do not extend to thecosta. Hind wing: markings 

 similar to those on the upperside but smaller, more widely divided 

 one from the other by the veins which are edged with black ; a 

 subterminal more or less well-defined series of small white lunules 

 and a terminal series of white specks. Antennae, head, thorax 

 and abdomen black ; beneath : a spot behind the eyes and spots and 

 specks on the thorax and abdomen white. $ . Upperside a duller 

 more opaque black than in the tf , but more densely irrorated with 

 yellowish- or reddish-brown scales. Fore wing : markings as in the 

 c? , with in addition postdiscal and terminal series of small white 

 spots that generally do not extend to the costal margin. Hind 

 wing : a discal series of diffuse broad whitish streaks in the inter- 

 spaces that extend into the apex of the cell, followed by a complete 

 transverve curved subterminal series of white lunules ; the ground- 

 colour beyond each lunule devoid of the irroration of yellowish- 

 brown scales ; this gives the appearance of a row of terminal 

 black spots impressed on the wing. Cilia black alternated 

 with white. Underside similar, the white markings larger and 

 more prominent. Fore wing : diffuse whitish streaks in interspaces 

 lr/, 1 and 2, and the subterminal and terminal series of \vhite spots 

 complete. Hind wing with diffuse whitish streaks that extend 

 up to the base of the wing. Antennae black ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen dull brown spotted with white. 



Exp. J $ 88-126 mm. (3-50-5"). 



Hab. Sikhim ; Assam ; Upper Burma, extending to Siam. 

 Found at low elevations in Sikhim at from 1000 to 3000 feet. 



Race meliala, Grose-Smith. <3 . Upperside velvety dark brown ; 

 a minute white spot on the middle discocellular and a series of 

 terminal white specks in each interspace. Hind wing : a discal 

 series of seven elongate, more or less inwardly conical, outwardly 

 emarginate cream-coloured spots, followed by a subterminal series 

 of lunular small white spots. Cilia black, alternated with white in 

 the interspaces. Underside brownish-black, markings similar. 

 Fore wing with the terminal series of white specks elongated 

 inwards. Hind wing : the markings somewhat larger. Antennae, 

 head, thorax and abdomen brownish black ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen speckled with white. $ . Similar to the c? , but on the 

 upperside a subterminal series of white spots on the fore wing, 

 sometimes with the anterior ones enlarged, sometimes with the 

 series incomplete. Hind wing as in the <$ . 



Exp. <$ $ 110-120 mm. (4-34-473"). 



Hab. Lower Burma ; Tenasserim. 



527. Papilio mahadeva, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 840, pi. 51, fig.'f; 

 .Eoihsch. Nov. Zool. ii, 1895, p. 359 ; Moore (Tamera), Lep. Ind. 

 vi, 1903, p. 77, pi. 499, figs. 1, la-lc, rf $ . 



d" . Upperside black, sprinkled somewhat closely with reudish- 



