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THE RAVINDRA BUTTERFLY. 

 Papilio Ravindra. 



PLATE XIII. 



Mijcna Ravindra, HorsfielcTs Illus. Lep. lust. Mus. Enst 

 India Company, p. 117. pi. 1, fig 11, 11. 



THE superior wings are brown above, being more 

 saturated in the male ; in which the lower wings 

 are of a pulverulent glossy hue, changing by the 

 play of light to sea green, deepening towards the! 

 lower margin ; the latter with a snow white fringe, 

 extending to the paler inner margin. In the female 

 these wings are nearly all brown, having only a 

 few diffuse bluish crescent-shaped spots; the su- 

 perior wings are grayish brown beneath, with a 

 grayish white anal area ; the lower wings are white, 

 and marked on the base and disc with oblong black 

 spots. The body is brown above, and hoary under- 

 neath; the antennae are brown, with a ferruginous 

 tip, delicately crenulated with white along the 

 lateral groove ; the legs are white, having distant 

 black bands on the tibiae, and numerous bands on 

 the tarsi ; the caudate wings white, with a medial 

 black striga. 



The Ravindra butterfly inhabits India. 



