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remarkable shield-like covering projecting a little over the head 

 and marked with slender involute black lines ; 7th to the 12th 

 segments with lateral obliquely placed pale yellowish lines. 



Pupa. Pale green with yellow and white markings. Head cleft, 

 back strongly arched ; " sides flattened out with a hard sharp 

 ridge running longitudinally round the whole insect." (Harford, 

 as quoted by Moore.) 



Race ganesa, Doubleday. The Eastern race as a whole is 

 larger and typically differs as follows : Upperside : ground- 

 colour slightly darker, irroration of green scales not so dense. 

 Fore wing : the subterininal bright golden-green transverse band 

 very incomplete, often merely indicated from near the tornus to 

 not further than interspace 3. Hind wing : the upper discal 

 patch not continued to the dorsum, the red subterininal lunules 

 on the posterior half of the wing more generally present. Under- 

 side : ground-colour darker than in the Western race. Fore wing 

 with very prominent internervular whitish streaks on the outer 

 half, these streaks increase in length towards the costa but do 

 not reach the terminal margin. Hind wing : the irroration of 

 yellowish scales less dense and more restricted, the series of sub- 

 terminal red and of terminal whitish lunules as in polyctor but 

 variable, especially the latter series, in width and prominence. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in polyctor. 



Exp. c? $ 123-140 mm. (4-84-5-5"). 



Hab. Sikhim; Nepal; the hills of Assam, Burma and Tenas- 

 serim. 



The Assam and Burmese specimens have been separated as 

 subspecies or races by Fruhstorfer under the names triumpliator 

 and significans ; the points relied upon for distinguishing them are, 

 how r ever, eminently variable, such as the width or entire obsoles- 

 cence of the subterminal green band on the upperside of the fore 

 wing, the size of the upper discal patch and the presence or 

 absence of red subterminal lunules on the upperside of the hind 

 wing. These all vary greatly in Sikhim as well as in Assam and 

 Burmese specimens. The presence of a somewhat obscure shining 

 white spot on the upperside of the fore wing near the tornal 

 angle in significans^ if constant, may possibly entitle it to racial 

 separation. 



PARIS GEOUP. 



c? $ . In arrangement of pattern and in venation closely 

 resembles the Bianor group, but the males are devoid of the 

 cottony scent-streaks on the upperside of the fore wing. 



Key to tJie forms of tlie Paris Group. 



a. Fore wing underside : subterminal greyish- 

 white band sharply defined, narrow, of 'even 

 width throughout ." -P. krislna, p. 80. 



