MATAPIN^. 1C9 



vein 5 Ijeing emitted from below the middle ; 3 from close to lower end of cell, 2 from 

 before the middle ; costa gently and evenly arched ; apex produced, more in the male 

 than in the female, the outer margin very slightly convex in the male, more rounded 

 in the female, the outer and hinder margins being of about equal length. Hindwing, 

 vein 7 emitted about one-fourth before upper end of cell ; diseocellulars faint concave, 

 5 not traceable, 3 emitted very close to lower end of cell, 2 from about one-third 

 before the end, wing rather longer than broad in the male, more rounded in the 

 female, outer margin even ; no secondary sexual characters in the male. Antennae 

 long, more than two-thirds the length of the costa of forewing ; club slender, elongate, 

 with a short curved crook and pointed tip ; palpi erect, third joint obtusely conical, 

 short, almost entirely concealed by the thick hairs of the second joint ; hind tibitt with 

 two pairs of spurs. 



Type, Papllio adrastus, Cramer. 



HYAROTIS ADRASTUS. 



Plate 796, figs. 3, $ , 3a, 9 , 3b, ^ . 



Papilio adrastus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 319, figs. F, G (1780). 



Tagiades adrashis, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 109. 



Eyarotis adrastus, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 174, pi. 67, figs. 5, 5a (1881) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, 

 p. 267. de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 54. Wood-Mason and de Nicenlle, 

 id. 1886, p. 389. Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. 53. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, 

 p. 397, pi. 34, fig. 4 (1886). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 460. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. 

 Bengal, 1888, p. 367. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1888, p. 27; id. idem, 1891, p. 58. 

 Fergusson, id. p. 448. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 117 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 572. 

 Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 82. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 180 (1894). 

 J. J. Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 476. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, 

 p. 429; id. idem, x. 1896, p. 680. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 197. 

 Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 1897, p. 53. de Rhe-Philipe, id. x. 

 1898, p. 599. Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 143. Friihstorfer, 

 Iris, 1910, p. 97. Hannyngton, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xx. 1910, p. 372. Evans, 

 id. p. 389. 



Eyarotis adrastus meluchus, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 98. 



Eyarotis adrastus jmlawensis, Friihstorfer, I.e. 



Eyarotis adrastus mtiidanaensis, Friihstorfer, I.e. 



Eegperia prahlia, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 253 (1857). 



Plesioneura prahlta, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 790. 



Eesperia phanicis, Hewitson, Ex. Butt. Hesp. pi. 4, figs. 36, 37 (1869). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olive-brown, nearly Ijlack ; spots semi-hyaline, 



white. Forercing with three sub-apical dots in an outwardly oblique curve, a suIj- 



quadrate spot constricted at its middle, crossing the end of the cell, another below it, a 



little outwards, near the base of the second median interspace, a small dot outside them 



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