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speckled with crimson scales posteriori}- ; in some specimens (from the same locality) 

 a very small but much shorter similar spot is also present, and in others, again, 

 an outer very small short rounded black-speckled white spot is occasionally also 

 present ; beyond are either two, more generally three, submarginal slender crimson 

 lunules, the inner one being above the anal angle, followed by four corresponding 

 outer-marginal broader and shorter crimson lunules, which latter are more or less 

 white-speckled and with white cilia, the upper incisions of the wing also with white 

 cilia ; tail with duplex white spot. Underside. Somewhat paler. Foreiving with 

 a crimson patch at the base. Hindtring with r. crimson basal patch, the lowest 

 portion of which is short and restricted to the base of the median and submedian 

 interspace; discal white patch as on the upperside; the submarginal and marginal 

 crimson lunules larger and broader than on the upperside. Thorax and abdomen 

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

 and abdomen beneath crimson ; abdomen beneath with black lateral spots and 

 segmental cross-bands ; anal valves black, narrow and pointed at the apex ; 

 antenniE and legs black. 



Female. Upperside somewhat paler than in male. Hindwing with the discal 

 white patch composed of three portions and an upper very small rounded black- 

 speckled spot ; the submarginal crimson narrow lunules and marginal short lunules 

 as in the male. Underside paler, Hindwing with markings as on the upperside. 



Expanse, c? ? 4^- to 4| inches. 



Habitat. — Assam. 



Dlsteibdtiox. — Col. C. Swinhoe records it {I.e. p. 312) from " Shillong and 

 Cherra Punji, Assam," and has also since received numerous specimens from the 

 Jaintia Hills. 



BYASA JANAKA (Plate 433, figs. 1, la, J, lb, 9 ). 



Papilio Janaka, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 97 (1857) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. LonJ. 



1857, p. 104, pi. 45, fig. 1, la, S- Felder, Verb. Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, p. 325. Elwes, Trans. 



Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 426. Haase, Untersuch. ub. Mim. p. 53, pi. 5, fig. 3(3, ? (IS'JS). 



EothschilJ, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 336 (1895). 

 Papilio (^Panosinioj)sis) Janaha, de Niceville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 171. 

 Papilio SiH-iniensis, Wood-Mason, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1882, p. 103, (J. 

 Papilio [Panosmiopsis) Bootes, Mackinnon and de Nict'ville, Jonrn. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1898, p. 593. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing dark greyish fuliginous-black, with a 

 black longitudinal streak between the veins, and others within the cell ; a more or 

 less apparent short dark crimson-scaled streak at base of the cell; cilia alternately 

 edged with white. Hindioing olivescent greyish-fuliginous basally, deep black 

 posteriorly ; with a lower-discal white patch composed of three poi-tions, which are 

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