168 LEPIDOrTERA IXDICA. 



other two crimson. Tail entirely black. Underside paler. Ilindwing witli tlie 

 discal patcli composed of five portions, the upper portion small or united to the 

 submarginal lunule of the same interspace, the anal portions and the veins being 

 crimson edged, the three lower hinules larger and brighter crimson ; in the sub- 

 costal interspace, above the discal baud, there is also a narrow or broad white 

 lunule. 



Female. Upperside. Foreioing mucli paler; grejish-fuliginous. Ilindwing 

 greyish-fuliginous basallj', black posteriorly ; the discal patch and submarginal 

 lunules white ; the patch composed of five portions, tlie upper portion united to the 

 submarginal lunule of the same interspace ; tails black. Underside as in the 

 male. Eindioing with the discal band white, as on the upperside. Thorax and 

 abdomen above black; collar, front of head, sides of thorax beneath, and abdomen 

 beneath, crimson ; abdomen beneath with black segmental cross-bands ; anal valves 

 crimson ; antennae and legs black. 



Expanse, (? ? 3|- to 4 inches. 



Habitat. — Upper Tenasserim ; Shan States, Burma. 



DiSTBiBUTJOX. — The type specimens wei'e taken by Col. C. H. E. Adamson, 

 Madras Stafi" Corps, near the Siamese frontier in January, 1880. Mr. J. "Wood- 

 Mason records " a male from Simbyoodine, and a pair from Ponsekai, and a male in 

 Major Marshall's collection taken in March, in the Thoungyeen forests, Upper 

 Tenasserim " {I.e. p. 435). "We possess males from Moulmein, and from Upper 

 Mekong, Shan States, the latter taken by Mr. R. Roberts, C.E. " This species 

 occurs apparently throughout Tenasserim, but is always I'are. I have specimens 

 from the Ataran Valley taken in March, the Thaungyin Valley taken in the same 

 month, and the Daunat Range taken iu January " (de Niceville, J. Bombay N. H. S. 

 1899, 334). 



BYASA BOOTES (Plate 432, figs. 1, la, S, lb, ? ). 



Papilto Bootee, Westwood, Ann. and Mag. Xat. Hist. 1842, p. 36; id. Arcana Ent. i. p. 123, pi. 31, (^ 

 (1843). Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 9 (1846). Gray, Catal. Lep. B. M. i. p. 

 15 (1852). Felder, Verb. Z. B. Ges. Wion. 1864, p. 32.5. Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1867, 

 p. 672. Eothschild, Xov. Zool. ii. p. 335 (1895). 



Byasa Bootes, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 312. 



IiiAGO. — Male. Upperside. Foreicing dark greyish fuliginous-black, blacker 

 basally ; with a black longitudinal streak between the veins and similar streaks 

 within the cell ; a few minute crimson scales generally present at base of the cell ; 

 cilia alternately edged with white. Hindiving more prolonged posteriorly than in 

 Janalca ; greyish fuliginous-black basally, deep black posteriorly ; with a lower- 

 discal white patch composed of two portions, the inner one, or both, very slightly 



