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a 2 . Colour upperside green and black. Size 



3" - 5 to 4" . . . . . . . . agamemnon. (PI. D5. 



fig. 29 6 ■) 



The tails are, perhaps, very slightly spatulate 



in this species. 



Jr. Colour upperside black and crimson. 



Size 3"-5 to 4"-7o hector. (PI. Dl, figs. 



23 6 , 23« $ .) 

 b. Tails well developed, broad, spatulate. 



a 1 . Very large ; colour black with large white 

 or yellowish patch on hindwing. Size 



4"25-to5"-5 .. daksha. (PI. D3,figs. 



26 6, 26«$.) 

 There is another species similar to this in size and aspect except that 

 the white patch is replaced by peacock blue-green ; this is called P. tami- 

 lana and is found in the Kanara Ghats. 



b l . Smaller; forewing black, hindwing black 

 with white discal spots and a row of sub- 

 marginal bright red ones, especially bright 



on the underside. Size 3" to 4" - o .. aristolochice . (PI. Dl, 



fig. 24 c?.) 

 c 1 . Size of aristolochice ; male black with a band 

 of white spots across hindwing from above 

 tail to apex, continued on to outer margin 

 of forewing as an edge ; females of three 

 forms : one like the male, one like P. aris- 

 tolochice but with brownish rose-colour 

 instead of the red, a third somewhat like 

 P. hector but the tails as in the male. 



Size 3"--5 to 4" polytes. (PI. D2, figs. 



25 cT , 25a and // 



?$■) 

 There is another species, P. demotion, found in the Western Ghats in 

 Kanara, &c, which is like the male of P. polytes except that it has two 

 white bands to the wings ; that is an extra one inside and parallel to the 

 sub-marginal one of that species. Size 4 / ' , 3 to 4" - 5. 

 d l . Colour above : black with a peacock-green 

 band across both wings. 

 cr. The green band very broad. Size 4' ;- 2 



to 4" - 5 . . . . . . . . . . budha. 



b 2 . The green band narrow. Size 4" to 4"*6. crino. 

 These last two will not probably be found away from the hills ; the first 

 is not uncommon in the Konkan, south of Goa. 

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