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near their apices by a Hue of the ground-colour; fiually a complete 

 subterminal series of small whitish spots. Hiud wing rich chest- 

 nut-red ; cell filled by a trifid bluish - grey streak, followed at 

 the bases of interspaces 2 to 6 by elongate bluish-grey spots ; a 

 narrow streak of the same colour from base in interspace 1 ; 

 a postdiscal series of spots in interspaces 5, 6 and 7 and a more or 

 less obsolescent snbterminal series of dots also bluish-grey ; the 

 veins on the wing conspicuously paler than the ground-colour. 

 Underside : fore wing similar to the upperside except that 

 the ground-colour on the apical area is dull brown not black. 

 Hind wing also as on the upperside, but the ground-colour 

 on the disc of the wing of a darker deeper shade of chestnut; the 

 postdiscal series of spots more or less obscurely complete from 

 interspace 1 to 7 ; and the subterminal series of spots of the 

 upperside formed into lunules. Antenna?, head, thorax and 

 abdomen black, the head and thorax variegated with bluish-grey 

 spots, the abdomen with lateral transverse bars. 



Exp. 3 2 94-102 mm. (3- 7-4-0-1"). 



Hab. Sikhim ; Nepal ; Assam ; Burma; Tenasserim; extending 

 to the Malay Peninsula. 



Race govindra, Moore. d* $ . Very closely resembles the 

 typical form but can always be distinguished by the presence of a 

 complete series of postdiscal bluish-grey spots on the upperside of 

 the hind wing. It is generally also smaller in both sexes than 

 typical af/estor, and on the upperside of the hind wing the ground- 

 colour in the anterior interspaces is broadly centred along the 

 middle with very dark brown, almost black. The $ frequently has 

 the ground-colour of the hind wing a much brighter chestnut 

 {almost ochraceous) than in any specimen of $ of agestor that I 

 have seen. 



Exp. d $ 93-102 mm. (3'65-4"). 



Hab. The Himalayas from Kashmir to Kumaon. 



" The 2 lays her eggs on the young leaves of Macldlus 

 odoratissimus trees, Natural Order Laurince, about the end of 

 April. The larva is at first of a reddish colour but very soon turns 

 black and white, and lies on the upper surface of a leaf where it 

 greatly and protectively resembles a bird's droppings." Adult 

 larva : brown with two subdorsal and two lateral rows of fleshy- 

 pointed tubercles, each with a spot of red at its base ; anterior, 

 middle and posterior lateral patches of dull ochraceous, the latter 

 two meeting on the dorsum ; the rest of the larva spotted with 

 black and red. " Pupa dark brown with lines of dull ochraceous, 

 roughened, with the anal end truncate." (Described from plate to 

 Mackinnon & de Nice vi lie's paper.) 



-330. Papilio epycides, Hewitson, Exot. Butt, iii, 1864, pi. 6, fig. 

 Ehves, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 432, rf $ ; Rothsch. AOL: 

 ii, 1895, p. 361 ; Moore (Cadugoides), Lep. 2nd. vi, 1903, p. 104, 

 pi. 510, tigs. 1, la-ltf )t j. 



J. Upperside dull black, with the following somewhat dingy 



