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costal interspace. Underside similar to tlie upperside, except tliat the large 

 discal spot and upper lunule are outwardly-edged with crimson, the lower lunules and 

 tail spot being pale crimson, and the anal marginal patch partly crimson tinged. 



Expanse <? 4 to 4i-, ? 4 to 4f inches. 



Habitat, — Western Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Mr. P. AY. Mackinnon records it as "common in Tehi'i Garhwal, 

 N. W. Himalaya, in April and May" (Journ. Bombay N. H. S. 1898, 592). Capt. 

 Graham Young took it in Kulu (H. J. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 424). AYe 

 possess specimens from Garhwal, taken by Col. Buckley, and from Nepal, taken by 

 General G. Ramsay. Mr. E. T. Atkinson (MS. Notes) remarks that " Eavana, 

 Philoxenvs, and Dasarada fly together at Naini Tal, Kumaon, in September." 



BYASA NEVILLI (Plate 429, fig. 1, (J). 



Fapilio Ncvilli, Wood-Mason, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1882, p. 105, c?. KothschilJ, Nov. Zool. ii. 



p. 263 (1895). 

 Pajntio (Panosmia) Nevilli, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 374, 



pi. 15, fig. 2, 2a, S- 

 Papilio Chenfsong, Oberthur, Etudes Ent. xi. p. 13, pi. 1, fig. 1 J (1886). Leech, Butt, of China, 



ii. p. 543 (1S93). 



IjtAGO. — Male. Upperside. Forewivg fuliginous-black, with a black longi- 

 tudinal streak between the veins, and others within the cell. Eindiciiig paler 

 fuliginous basally, black posteriorly ; with two large upper-discal pink-white spots, 

 placed in the subcostal interspaces, followed by the three lower submarginal bright 

 crimson lunules, and a less-apparent dull crimson streak from the anal angle ; a 

 portion of the crimson spot of the underside being also visible at end of the 

 abdominal fold ; tail broad, not spatulate, entirely black. Underside. Similar. 

 Hiriclwing with the two large pink-white spots as on the upperside, and with a very 

 small upper pink spot in the costal interspace ; the three lower bright crimson 

 lunules larger, and a crimson broken patch crossing the submedian and lower 

 median from the marginal anal angle. 



Thorax and abdomen above black ; streaks on thorax above, collar, front of 

 head and palpi, and abdomen beneath crimson ; abdomen beneath with black 

 segmental cross-bands. 



Female. Upperside paler. Eindiving with the two upper patches white, the 

 upper submarginal lunule either white or very pale crimson. 



Expanse, 6 4^, ? 4 inches. 



Habitat. — Cachar ; W. China. 



Distribution. — The type specimens of B. Nevilli are recorded from the " vicinity 

 of Silchar, in Cachar" (W. Mason, I.e. p. 105). 



