PAPILIOXIX.E. 153 



Thorax moderately stout, densely hairy ; head hairy ; palpi very small ; abdomen 

 elongated, scaled; antennte moderately long, club slender and elongated ; legs long, 

 slender ; fore tibial spur covered with a lateral hairy tuft. 



Female. Both wings larger than in the male. Forewing broader. Hiada-iag 

 broader, more convex posteriorly ; the abdominal mai'giu longitudinally wrinkled 

 between the median and subraedian vein. 



TrPE. — P. Yaruna. 



PANGERANA ASTOKION (Plate 423, fig. 1, la, <?, lb, ?). 



Papilio Asforion, Westwood, Ann. & Mag. Xat. Hist. ix. p. 37, cJ (1842) ; id. Arcana Eat. if. p. 69, 



pi. 66, fig. l,cJ(18-14). Obenhur, Eiud. Ent. iv. p. 33 (1879). de Nieeville, Journ. As. Soc. 



Bengal, 1881, p. 59. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 422. 

 Papilio Chara, Westwood, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 37, ? (1842) ; id. Arcana Ent. ii. p. 69, 



pi. 66, fig. 2, ? (1844). 

 Papilio {Pcngtrana) Astorion, Wood-Mason & de Xice'ville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 387. de 



Niccville, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. 170. 

 Papilio Varuna, Moore, Catal. Lep. Miis. E. I. Compj', i. p. 98 (1857) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 



1865, p. 756. Obertbiir, Etud. Eat. xvii. p. 1 (1893). 

 Paiigerana Varuna, Moore, Proc. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, p. 51. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 



893, p. 312. 

 FaiiUio Varuna, subsp. Astorion, Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 260 (1S95). 



Imago. — ^lale. TJpperside. Both wings rich glossy blue-black, in some with a 

 slight greenish or purplish gloss in some lights. Forewing darkest basally, aud with 

 longitudinal pale streaks between the outer veins except belon^ the submedian, and 

 less apparent similar streaks within the cell, Hmdioing with the cell area intensely 

 black ; and when the marginal lappet is unfolded the abdominal area, from below 

 the cell to middle median, is dark greyish or sepia-brown, with a small paler anal 

 androconial patch, and a fringe of long fine hairs bordering the inner marginal 

 edge. Underside. Foreioing with paler bluish or bluish-grey longitudinal streaks, 

 palest posteriorly. Rindwing uniformly coloured. Thorax and abdomen above 

 black ; collar, frontal tuft and palpi, sides of thorax beneath, and abdomen beneath 

 rich crimson, the latter with black cross-bands aud lateral spots. 



Female. Both wings broader. Upperside. Foreioing with paler and distinctly 

 defined streaks within the cell aud bordering the outer veins, these streaks being 

 either bluish-grey of varying shades, or olivescent-grey, and are broadest and palest 

 in the lower median and submedian interspaces. Hindwing '^?i\ev aivX nioreolivescent 

 than in the male ; with the entire cell-area aud the outer interspaces of the veins, 

 medially and longitudinallj' to the margiii darkest. In an extreme aberration, from 



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