184 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



Syst. iii. 1, p. 10 (1793). Donov. Ins. lud. pi. 15, fig. 2 (1800). De Haan, Verli. 

 Nat. Gescli. Xed. p. 49, pi. 8, fig. 2 ? (1840). Hagen, Iris, p. 20, pi. 1, fig. 1 (1894). 

 Pap. (Men.) ^ntipbiis, de Niceville, J. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 510. Pap. 

 Aristolocbia, snlsp. Antipbns, Rotbschild, I.e. p. 251. Pap. Theseus, Butler, Catal. 

 Fabr. Lcp. B. M. p. 258, nee Cramer. Ilahitat. Sumatra; Nias ; Java; Borneo. 



Genus LOSARIA. 



Papilio (part), DouLleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 5 (1S4G). 

 Papi/io (group 2), Eothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 252 (1895). 



Male. Foreivinr/ extremely long and narrow ; apex convex, exterior margiu of 

 nearly parallel width from tbe costa tbrougbout its length, posterior margin very 

 short ; cell vei'y long and narrow. Hindwing short anteriorly, prolonged posteriorly ; 

 exterior margin deeply scalloped, and witli a lengthened broadly spatulate-tipt tail 

 at end of upper median veiulet ; abdominal margin sligbtly folded over and grooved 

 along tbe submedian vein, tbe groove furnished with long fine bairs. Body 

 moderately stout ; abdomen with prominent large anal valves ; posterior tibia 

 sligbtly incrassated towards the middle, densely clothed with very short fine spiny 

 scales. 



TvPE. — L. Coon. 



LOSAEIA DOUBLEDAYI (Plate 438, fig. 1, la, ^, lb, $ ). 



Papilio BouUedayi, Wallace, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxv. p. 42 (18G5). Jloore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lend. 1878, p. 840. Oberthiir, Etudes Ent. iv. p. 45 (1879). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 336, 



pi. 3.3, fig. 4, ? (1885). Kothscliild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 253 (1895). 

 Papilio (Menelaides) Douhledaiji, Ehves and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 435. 

 Menelaides Douhledayi, Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 18SG, p. 51. 



IiiAGO. — Male. Upperside. Forcwing very long and narrow ; fuliginous-black, 

 outer veins bordered with short pale fuliginous-grey streaks, and similar pale streaks 

 extending within the cell from base to the end. Hindwing rich dark bluish-black ; 

 ■with a large central vein-divided white or ochreous-white patch, extending across 

 fully tbe apical half of the cell, within the basal interspaces of the outer veins and 

 between the median and submedian below the cell, the portions between the medians 

 narrow, the upper or costal portion being either broad or narrovs^, the cell-ai'ea 

 traversed by two longitudinal faint blackish lines ; the abdominal margin and its 

 fringe of bairs being fuliginous-brown ; beyond are three upper-submarginal whitish 

 lunules, the lower being sometimes, and occasionally all three, crimson-tinted, 

 followed by a lower-submarginal bright crimson short lunule in the middle median 

 interspace, this latter being sometimes absent ; a marginal spot at end of the middle 



