PAPILIO. 01 



pale brown to blackish brown irrorated with scattered yellowish 

 scales, which, however, on the fore wing are absent from a large 

 triangular discal patch that lies betw-een the dorsuin, the median 

 vein, vein 5 and a line of white lunules that crosses the wing in an 

 outward curve from the upper third of the costa to just before the 

 tornus ; these white lunules are outwardly diffuse and merge 

 gradually into the brow 7 n ground-colour. Hind wing : the tornal 

 ocellus much as on the upperside ; an obscure ill-defined highly 

 arched postdiscal narrow whitish band from above the tornal 

 ocellus to the costa, ends near apex of interspace 7 in a broad white 

 lunule ; beyond this a double subterminal row of somewhat 

 straight ochreous-white lunules in the interspaces, each lunule of 

 the inner row bordered outwardly with blue, this bordering very 

 faint in many specimens. Cilia of both fore and hind wings brown 

 alternated with white. Antenna?, head, thorax and abdomen dark 

 brownish black ; the head, thorax, and abdomen above with a 

 sprinkling of glittering green scales. 



Exp. <j $ 100-116 mm. (3-98-4-6"). 



Hab. Lower Bengal; Central and Southern India ; Ceylon. 



Var. montanus, Felder, was founded on specimens devoid of the 

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



Larva. " Somewhat lirnaciform ; anterior segments convexly 

 scutellated ; furnished with a pair of short fleshy tubercles on 

 anterior and two on anal segments." (Moore.) 



Pupa. " Curved backward anteriorly ; head broad in front ; 

 green." (Moore.) 



PAYEXI GROUP. 



<$ 2 Fore wing more or less strongly falcate ; costa much 

 arched, apex acute or subacute, produced ; termen concave ; tornus 

 well marked, angular ; dorsum sinuous ; cell broad, upper disco- 

 cellular about half the length of middle, middle concave ; veins 9, 

 10 and 11 very close to each other, out of subcostal. Hind wing 

 subtriangular ; costa slightly arched, apex rounded ; termen slightly 

 convex to vein 4, prolonged into a long spatulate tail, slightly 

 curved upwards at vein 4 ; tornus oblique, not well marked ; dorsum 

 straight ; cell very long, more than two-thirds of length of wing 

 to apex. Antenna? comparatively short, not half length of fore 

 wing ; club well marked, oval. Anal valves in tf distinct. 



Key to the forms of the Payeni Group. 



a. Upperside ground-colour ochraceous yellow P. evan, p. 91. 



b. Upperside ground-colour brown P. gyas, p. 92. 



545. Papilio evan (PI. XIV, fig. 92), Doubkday, A. M. N. H, xvi, 



1845, pp. 235 & 304 ; Moore (Meandrusa), New Ind. Lep. Ins. 

 1888, p. 284 ; id. (Meandrusa), Lep. Ind. vi, 1903, p. 47, pi. 483, 

 figs. 1, la-le, cJ $ . 

 Papilio payeni evan, Rotlisch. Nov. Zool. ii, 1895, p. 401. 



c? . Upperside bright ochraceous, with a darker shade towards 



