PAPILIONIN^. 1G7 



upperside, as also is the carmine tip of the tail. Palpi, orbits, head, and thorax 

 anteriorly carmine ; thorax posteriorly and abdomen above black ; thorax and 

 abdomen beneath carmine; anal valves carmine; antennse and legs black." 



Female. Upperside much paler. Forewing fuliginous-brown ; vein streaks 

 black. Hindiving fuliginous-brown basally, black posteriorly ; discal white patch 

 similar to male, except that the upper portion is broader and shorter, its two lower 

 portions also shorter and not reaching inwardly to the base of the interspaces, the 

 lowest portion being extended for some distance into the submedian interspace ; the 

 portion within apex of the cell is also absent ; the submarginal lunules, edges of the 

 angles, and tail spot being sullied pinkish-white. Underside similar to the upperside. 

 Rindicinc] with the lunules a little brighter, and with a small white submarginal spot 

 in the subcostal interspace. 



Expanse, 6 5, ? 4| inches. 



Habitat. — N. Shan States ; N. China Hills, Upper Burma. 



Distribution. — Described by de Xiceville from a single male captured by 

 Major F. B. Longe, R.E., in the Kokang State, at 3500 feet elevation, in the North 

 Shan States, on the Chinese frontier east of Bhamo, April 5th, 1895. A worn 

 female in Mr. Walter Rothschild's collection, from which our description of this sex 

 is taken, was caught by Capt. E. Y. Watson in the North Chin Hills, Upper Burma, 

 at 5000 feet elevation. A male, taken by Col. C. T. Bingham at Bernardmyo, Shan 

 States, Burma, is also in the British Museum. 



Our illustration on Plate 429, fig. 2, is copied from Mr. de Niceville's figure of 

 the male. 



BYASA ADAMSONI (Plate 431, f5g. 1, la ^J, lb ? ). 



Pcqnlio Adamsoni, Grose-Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 149, c^ ; id. Rhop. Exot. 1, Pup. pi. 



5, fig. 3, 4 (J (1888). Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 262 (1895). De Nicuville, Journ. Bombay 



N. H. See. 1899, p. 334. 

 Papilio {Byasa) Minereoides, Elwes, and de Niccville, Journ. As. See. Bengal, 1887, p. 43-5, pi. '20, 



fig. 2, 2b cT.S ?. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewuig fuliginous-black, darkest basally ; with 

 a black longitudinal streak between the veins and others within the cell. Hind/ciug 

 black, palest basally ; with a lower-discal white patch composed of three portions 

 placed in the interspaces between the lower median and radial veinlets, or this 

 patch is pinkish-white and composed of five portions extending from the anal 

 marginal angle to the interspace above the radial, the upper portion being either 

 small and contiguous, or united to the submarginal lunular spot in the same inter- 

 space, and thus forming a transverse band crossed by black veins ; bej'ond are 

 three submarginal narrow lunules, the upper one being white or pinkish-white, tlie 



