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is easily known by its tliree-veined leaves and its unmistakeable 

 cinnamon-smell and is one of the prettiest trees in the evergreen 

 jungles where its yonng leaves sometimes light up large areas 

 with their brilliant reds of all shades from the palest yellow-pink 



to the brightest crimson. 



85. Papilio paris, L. — Male iqjperside : black, irrorated with dark-green 

 scales which, on the outer portion of the forewing, coalesce and form an 

 incomplete, postdiscal, narrow band. Hindwing : the irroration of dark- 

 green scales does not extend to the costal margin and is interrupted 

 posteriorly by a broad postdiscal area on both sides of which the green 

 scales coalesce to form narrow diffuse bands ; a conspicuous, upper, 

 discal, shining blue patch occupies the base of interspace 4 and outer 

 portions of interspaces 5 and 6 ; this patch is variable in size and in 

 many specimens extends narrowly below and above into interspaces 

 3 and 7 respectively, its outer margin is uneven, its inner margin evenly 

 arched ; a prominent claret-red, largely black centred ocellus at the torna' 

 angle, its inner margin with a transverse, short, violet-blue, superposed 

 line ; in many specimens an obscure, claret-red, subterminal lunule in 

 interspace 7. Underside : opaque black ; bases of both fore and hindwings 

 up to basal half of cell in fore and up to apex of cell in hindwing, with an 

 irroration of yellowish scales : also present, more obscurely, on the subter- 

 minal area in both wings. Forewing with a very broad, elongate triangii- 

 lar, pale area that does not extend to the termen, formed of internervular, 

 broad, very pale, ochraceous white streaks, short near the tornus, gradually 

 longer up to the costa. Hindwing : a prominent, subterminal series oi 

 ochraceous red lunules traversed by short violet-blue lines ; in interspaces 

 1 and 2 and sometimes in 3, these lunules are formed into more or less 

 complete, largely black centred ocelli by the addition of an admarginal 

 portion of the red ring. Cilia conspicuously white in the interspaces. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen black, the latter three sprinkled with 

 green scales above. Female similar, somewhat paler and duller. Uppe7'- 

 side : forewing with the green postdiscal band shorter and still more 

 incomplete. Hindwing with the upper discal patch smaller, often green 

 and not blue, the red, subterminal lunule in interspace 7 always present 

 and more prominent than in the male. Underside: similar to that of the 

 male, but the tornal and siibtornal markings generally formed into more oi 

 less complete ocelli. Exp. 106-132mm. 



The species does not seem to have been bred. It is found in the Hima- 

 layas from Kumaon to Sikkim ; Nepal and Bhutan ; the hills of Assam, 

 Burma and Tenasserim, extending to China, Siam and the Malay 

 Peninsula. As it is very common in some of the places where it exists 

 in the Himalayas it is mentioned here, being sure to attract attention 



