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distinct, it may ultimately prove to be a mere local 

 variety. Godart confounds three species, conceiving 

 that P. Bianor was the female of P. Paris, and 

 P. Arjuna a variety. * The extension of the wings 

 in P. Paris is about four inches ; the surface dark- 

 brown, powdered with particles of golden-green, 

 which are condensed into two or three spots near 

 the extremity of the inner border of the upper wings : 

 the under wings have, towards the middle, a large 

 patch of very brilliant azure-blue, sinuated poste- 

 riorly, where it is on a line with a series of spots 

 formed by the union or condensation of the minute 

 golden atoms ; the anal angle with an ocellated spot 

 having a red iris surmounted by a very narrow violet 

 arc : tail black : under side brown, sprinkled With 

 grey particles, which are so condensed towards the 

 apex of the "upper wings as to form a broad trans- 

 verse band, interrupted by dark nervures : under 

 wings with a posterior row of seven ocelliform spots, 

 dark in the centre and having a yellowish-red iris, 

 divided anteriorly by a slender violet arc : body black, 

 powdered with particles, in the same manner as the 

 wings. 



The female differs only in the ground colour being 

 a little darker, and in having a transverse ray of 

 condensed particles, which reaches from the internal 

 border nearly to the middle. 



The caterpillar is probably very similar to that of 

 P. Arjuna, described by Dr. Horsfield. t 



* Eneyelop. Metliodique, Art. Papillaris p. 67. No. 116. 

 + Dcscrip. Catal. of Lepid. of Indian Company, pi. i. fig. 14. 



