122 PAPILIONID.E. 



d" Upperside: creamy-white. Fore wing: base and costal 

 margin densely irrorated with black scales ; a broad short velvety 

 black bar across middle of cell, another along the discocellulars 

 and a third beyond apex of cell, this last with superposed spots of 

 crimson where" the bar crosses the bases of interspaces 5 and 8 ; a 

 crimson-centred black spot in middle of interspace 1 ; an irregularly 

 curved prominent postdiscal series of dusky-black spots, so arranged 

 as to leave a narrow edging of the creamy-white ground-colour 

 beyond, which is traversed by the black veins ; the upper four spots 

 of the postdiscal series fused to form a broad, continuous, but short, 

 curved band ; the terminal margin broadly dusky black ; the cilia 

 white. Both the dusky-black band and the postdiscal dusky-black 

 markings subhyaline. Hind wing : base and dorsal margin broadly 

 dusky black, the inner margin of the black coloration on the latter 

 deeply but irregularly bi-emarginate ; a crimson-centred black 

 spot near base of interspace 5, another just beyond the middle of 

 interspace 7, followed by a very conspicuous curved postdiscal series 

 of five dull blue ocelli ringed with black and centred with white, 

 and a narrow diffuse dusky black terminal band ; cilia as in the 

 fore wing. Underside : similar, with a glassy appearance. Fore 

 wing : with the markings of the upperside visible by transparency ; 

 the white scaling of the upperside replaced by scale-like hairs of 

 the same colour ; the only scaled markings are the medial and apical 

 transverse black bars in cell, three small crimson spots beyond and 

 the black-encircled crimson spot in middle of interspace 1. Hind 

 wing : the white scaling along the basal half of the costal margin 

 nearly as on the upperside, the rest hair-like as on the underside of 

 the fore wing ; a broad basal band of four crimson or vermilion-red 

 spots followed by a discal irregular series of five similarly-coloured 

 spots, the lower three formed into a short obliquely transverse band 

 above the tornal angle ; all the crimson spots encircled more or less 

 obsoletely by black rings, and the following prominently centred 

 with white : the spot in interspaces 2 and 5 and the basal and medial 

 spots in interspace 7. ? . Similar ; the dusky black irroration on 

 the upperside of the fore wing more extensive and formed into a 

 narrow irregular band below the cell, which runs between the 

 crimson spots beyond the cell-apex and the crimson spot in inter- 

 space 1 ; the crimson spots are larger, with an additional spot in 

 interspace 6 of the fore wing and a pretornal spot on the hind wing. 

 Underside: similar to that of the d but all the red spots much larger 

 and with white scaling in the centre. Antennae nearly black, with 

 only a few white specks, head with brownish-yellow pubescence ; 

 rest of the thorax and abdomen covered densely with long white 

 hairs which also clothe, more or less narrowly, the dorsal margin 

 of the hind wing. 



Eacp. <S $ 60-66 mm. (2-3S-2-6"). 



Hob. The Himalayas from Kashmir and Kulu to Nepal and 

 Sikhim, at from 7500 to 15,000 feet. 



Like all forms in the genus this is largely variable ; the black 

 irroration and crimson markings are, in many specimens, much 



