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transverse short bar near base of cell and seven spots beyond, two 

 and two except the apical spot which is single ; two spots beyond 

 apex of cell ; a spot at base of interspaces 1 a and 1, followed, by 

 two oblique short macular bands; a discal series of spots decreasing 

 in size towards the costa, and a postdiscal series of smaller spots 

 that begins with two in interspace 1 ; the spots in interspace 7 in 

 both series are out of line, placed outwards. Hind wing: three 

 series of similarly-coloured markings that run transversely across 

 the wing more or less parallel to the dorsal margin, the upper 

 markings . (i. e. those in interspace 7) white; a short greenish 

 stripe at the extreme base of the wing. Underside : fuliginous 

 brown or brownish-black, more or less suffused with pink along the 

 costal margin, on apical area and along the outer margin of the 

 discal markings on the fore wing, 

 broadly along the dorsal and 

 terminal margins and at base of 

 interspaces 6 and 7 on the hind 

 wing ; markings similar to those 

 on the upperside but less clearly 

 denned arid somewhat more grey 

 in tint. Hind wing black, in- 

 wardly red-margined spots super- 

 posed on the pink area in interspaces 

 6 and 7. Cilia very narrow, pale 

 pink. Antennae, head, thorax 

 and abdomen black, thorax above 

 and the abdomen on the sides 

 streaked with greenish grey ; 

 beneath : ochreous grey touched 

 on the thorax with pink. $ 

 similar, but with a streak of 

 greenish white along the dorsal 

 margin on both upper and under sides. 

 Exp. 3 $ 90-102 mm. (3-56-4-04"). 



Hob. More or less throughout our limits except in the desert 

 tracts and regions of scanty rainfall ; extending to China and 

 through the Malayan Subregion to the Philippines. 



The ground-colour of the underside is somewhat variable, this in 

 some specimens is much paler than in others and varies also in the 

 amount and the tint of pink suffusion. Burmese specimens gene- 

 rally have indications of a more or less complete curved series of red 

 spots on the underside of the hind wing in continuation of the red 

 spots at base of interspaces 6 and 7 ; in this they approximate to 

 the Andaman and Nicobar race. 



Larva. "Prom the head, which is moderately large, the body 

 increases in thickness rapidly to the 4th or oth segment and then 

 tapers gradually down to the tail. It has four pairs of spines. 

 The colour is at first smoky-black, but at the last moult becomes 

 a light clear green faintly marked with lines of a darker shade." 

 (Davidson $" Aitken?) 



Pupa. " Normally of a pale watery green, the horns being 

 broadly tipped with rusty brown which continues in an irregular 



Fig. 26. Pcqnlio agamemnon. 



