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Race ganesa. 



Papilio ganesa, Doublcday, Grains Zool. Misc. 1842, p. 73 ; Moore, 



Cat. Lep. Mus. JE. I. C. i, 1857, p. 107 ; Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



1888, p. 428; Moore (Sarbaria), Lep. Ind. vi, 1903, p. 56, 



pi. 487, figs. 1, 1 a, J 2 



Papilio polyctor ganesa, Rothsch. Nov. Zool. ii, 1895, p. 383. 

 Papilio polvctor, subsp. triumphator, Fruhstorfer, Soc. Ent. 1902, 



p. 66. 

 Sarbaria triumphator, Moore, Lep. Ind. vi, 1903, p. 57, pi. 488, 



fifr.l 6- 

 Papilio polyctor, subsp. significans, Fruhstorfer, Soc. Ent. 1902, 



p. 66. 

 Sarbaria sisrnificans, Moore, Lep. Ind. vi, 1903, p. 57, pi. 488, 



fig.2,<?. 



c? $ . The sexes are very nearly alike, and the difference 

 slight between the dry-season and wet-season broods. Ujtperside 

 dull black thickly irrorated with golden-green scales. Fore wing : 

 a broad subterminal golden-green band that varies in length, but 

 In all specimens is more or less diffuse and obsolescent towards 

 the costal margin ; in specimens of the wet-season broods this 

 band is slightly broader than in those of the dry-season, also 

 broader in the $ than in the $ . Hind wing : the irroration of 

 golden-green scales less dense, turning to blue on the anterior 

 portions of the wing ; a broad bright blue upper discal patch that 

 stops well short of the termen, and has its outer margin uneven, 

 occupies the base of interspace 4 and the outer portions of inter- 

 spaces 5, 6, and 7 ; below, this patch is continued in interspaces 

 1 to 3 by much smaller diffuse quadrate spots of brilliant golden- 

 green scales, that are prominent in wet-season forms, more obscure 

 in the dry. The discal patch itself is variable in size ; in some speci- 

 mens there is only a trace of it in interspace 4. Tornus with a 

 conspicuous subterminal claret-red lunule, traversed inwardly by an 

 obscure blue line and edged above the Innule, narrowly, by velvety 

 black; indications generally of a similar lunule in interspace 2; 

 finally a terminal series of large velvety-black markings that form 

 on the tail broad borders to the green irroration down its middle. 

 Cilia broadly edged with white in the interspaces. Underside 

 chocolate-brown, somewhat thinly irrorated with yellowish scales, 

 which are absent however, from a more or less triangular patch 

 in the middle of the fore wing posteriorly, but coalesce and form 

 an ill-defined very short subterminal band just above the tornal 

 angle of that wing. Hind wing : a conspicuous subterminal 

 series of claret-red lunules each traversed inwardly by a line 

 of purplish blue, followed by velvety-black spots and broad 

 white terminal lunules. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen 

 brownish black ; the head, thorax and abdomen above, thinly 

 irrorated with green scales. 



Exp. c? $ 98-124 mm. (3-86-4-90"). 



Hob. The Himalayas from Kashmir to Kumaon ; Nepal. 



Larva. Dull green with some yellowish markings, thorax with a 



G 2 



