118 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



Expanse, c? 2, ? Ij-o inch. 



Habitat. — Ladak. 



DiSTKinuTiox. — The type-spechiaens, in the British Museum, were taken by 

 Major Charlton at 1G,000 feet elevation, in Ladak, or Chinese Tartarj, as it. was 

 called in those days. A specimen in the IJewitson Collection, two others in Mons. 

 Oberthiir's Collection, and one female in Mr. H. Grose-Smith's Collection, all taken 

 by Major Charlton, are the only examples known. 



Our illustration on Plate 411, fig. 2, is from the female in Mr. H. Grose-Smith's 

 Collection. 



C. AsfAN Species. — Tadnmia Slmouins (Parn. Simonius, Staudinger, Stett. Ent. 

 Zeit. 1889, p. 16. Gr.-Gr. Rom. Mem. iv. pi. 21, fig. 3, a, b, c (1^90). Hahitat. 

 Turkestan. — Tadumia Simulator (Paim. Simulator, Staudinger, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 

 1S&9, p. IS). Eahitat. C. Asia. 



Genus KAILASIUS. 



IiiAGO. — Male. Foreioing more elongated than in ty|)ical Farnassius (Apollo) ; 

 snbtriangular, exterior margin more oblique ; cell longer ; second subcostal branch 

 arising from end of the cell and anastomosed to the first branch before its end ; 

 discocellulars outwardly-oblique, upper short, middle long and slightly concave, 

 lower short and bent inward, the two radials from their angles. Hindwuig 

 elongated ; exterior margin very convex and somewhat outwardly produced in the 

 middle ; precostal vein slightly bent near the tip. Antennas stouter, shaft smoothly 

 scaled, club thick. .Female with the anal pouch large, broad beneath, tubular, and 

 circularly horn-shaped. 



Type.— K. Charltonius. 



KAILASIUS CHAELTONIUS (Plate 411, figs. 3, J, 3a, b, ? ). 



Pctrnassius ChnrJtonitig, Gray, Cutal. Lep. Brit. Mua. Pap. p. 77, [il. 12, fig. 7, $, (1S52). Moore, 

 Second Yarkand Mission, Lep. p. .5, pi. 1, fig. 3, $ (1879). Elwes, IVoc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1886, 

 p. 43, pi. 3, fig. 5 (jMjtich). Austaut, Les Parnas, Siippl. p. 188, pi. 5, fig. 1, 2, c? ? (U 



Male. — Upperside yellowish-white ; fringe white. Body above black, densely 

 clothed with long fine grej^-tipped hairs; head and thorax in front and palpi above 

 interspersed with short olive-grey hairs ; collar, body and palpi beneath clothed 

 with yellowish-white hairs. Antennas black. Forcwlng with the base speckled with 

 black scales, these scales being thickly clustei'ed across the cell ; the cell and 

 discocellular bar dense black and broad; inner-discal transverse zigzag band 

 broadest at each end, more or less densely black scaled ; the two outer bands paler, 

 greyish black, the submarginal narrow, irregular and sinuous, the marginal broad. 

 Rindwivfj with the base, abdominal margin, and anal bar thickly black scaled and 



