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Hab. The Himalayas from Kangra and Simla to Sikhim ; 

 Assam ; Central and Southern India. 



The larva and pupa are stated by Mackinnon (t. c.) to resemble 

 closely the larva and pupa of P. agestor. Messrs. Davidson and 

 Aitken's description of them is as follows : 



Larva. " Not unlike the larva of the Ornithoptera group in form, 

 having similar rows of fleshy processes, but it is by far the 

 handsomest Papilio larva we know, being of a dark umber-brown 

 colour with a bright red spot at the base of each process, a dorsal 

 row of large irregular yellow patches and a partial lateral row 

 ending in a diagonal band which connects the two." 



Pupa " is unique, exhibiting one of the most remarkable 

 instances of protective resemblance we know. It exactly re- 

 sembles a dead twig about an inch long and less than a quarter 

 of an inch in diameter, broken off irregularly at one end. The 

 last segment is so modified that the pupa is not attached by one 

 point, but appears as if it had grown out of the branch to which 

 it affixes itself." 



Found on Tetranthera apetala and Alseodaphne semicarpifolia. 



Yar. casyapa, Moore. " Fore wings, besides the marginal and 

 submarginal markings, with a third discal series of one to five 

 markings." (Rothschild.) 



A 7 ar. papone, Westwood. " Fore wings black, with an obvious 

 bluish tint in certain lights ; the white spots absent from the 

 fore wings or only faintly indicated." (Rothschild.) 



Var. commivtus, .Rothschild. "Fore wings black or bluish 

 black, with a marginal, submarginal and a subdiscal series of most 

 t'eebly-jmarked spots, and with two faint spots behind the cell and 

 a streak along the inner margin Tdorsum] white ; the discal 

 markings are often indicated by a few white scales, or are entirely 

 absent. Hind wings with apical half of the cell, seven long discal 

 streaks reaching the bases of the respective cellules [interspaces ?] 

 (the first and the last reach the base of the wing) and a marginal 

 and submarginal series of spots white as in ab. ditsimilif, L. 

 This aberration and examples intermediate between it and clytia 

 I received from the Khasia HiDs." (RotJischild.) 



Race lankeswara, Moore. " Differs from P. clytia in the 

 umber-brown colour of the wings and in the small submarginal 

 spots of the fore wings ; from P. clytia panope, Linn., it is 

 distinguished chiefly by the longer discal sagittiform spots of the 

 hind wings. This subspecies has been described from slightly 

 aberrant specimens in which the submarginal spots of the fore 

 wings are partly obliterated ; in most individuals the series of 

 these spots is complete, and on such specimens Moore's clytioides 

 is based." (Rothschild.) 



The dimorph or dissimilis form of this race is identical with 

 that of P. clytia. 



Eacp. 6 ? 108-124 mm. (4-26-4-88"). 



Hab. Ceylon. 



