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bark, others are uniformly green. It has been recorded from 

 ' Massuri " by Felder. 



256. Papilio (Panosmiopsis) bootes, Westwood. 

 lare in Tehri Garhwal in May. Mr. de Niceville has two males 

 only from Tehri Garhwal, both taken in May. One has the tail broad, 

 half as broad again as the other, and the red colour at the base of the 

 hindwing on the underside much restricted, not reaching to the origin 

 of the first median nervule, this being typical P 4 janaka^ Moore. The 

 other has the tail longer and narrower, the red colour extending along 

 the abdominal margin nearly as far as the anal red spot — this latter 

 specimen being, therefore, typical P. bodies, Westwood. As in all other 

 respects the specimens agree very closely, it appears probable that 

 P. janaka and P. bodies are really one and the same species, as 

 Mr. Rothschild suggests. He gives Assam as the only habitat for 

 P. bodies, and Sikkim only for P. janaka. 



257. Papilio (Laertias) sakontala, Hewitson. 



Originally desoribed from Sylhet, and recorded from the Naga Hills 

 by Mr. W. Doherty.* Mr. de NiceVille has seen a specimen from 

 Sikkim in the late Mr. Otto Moller's collection, now in the possession 

 of the Hon. Walter Rothschild. In the collection of the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, is a single male from Mussoorie, and in that of 

 de Niceville another male from Dehra Dun, which is the most 

 remarkable of the three, as it has the usual discal series of white spots 

 on the upperside of the hindwing almost entirely obliterated, they are 

 represented only by an irrorated clump of whitish scales in each 

 interspace where the macular band should be. Mr. de Niceville has but 

 little doubt that this so-called distinct species is only an atavistic form 

 of P. poli/tea, Linnaeus, but it is kept distinct in deference to Mr. 

 Rothschild's opinion as expressed in his paper in " Novitates Zoologicae," 

 vol. ii, pp. 343, n. 124 (1895), entitled " A Revision of the Papilios of 

 the Eastern Hemisphere, exclusive of Africa." 



258. Papilio (Laertias) folvtes, Linnseus. 



Very common in the low valleys near Mussoorie from April to 

 October, and in the Dun almost throughout the year. The females are 

 of three forms — I, like the male j II, which mimics P. aristolochice, 

 Fabricius; 111, which mimics P. hector, Linnasus, although that 



* Proc, Zool. Soc. Loud., 1891, p. 250. 



