18G LKPIDdl'TERA lyolC'A. 



Habitat. — Cacluu- ; Assam. 



Distribution.— ]\lr. J. Wood-i\Iason records " five males taken at Silciiri, 

 Irangmara, and Doorband, Cacliar, from May to Jul}'. It has a musk-scented body " 

 (J. As. Soc. Bengal, 188G, 377). Mr. W. Rothschild has it from Dullabcherra, 

 Cachar. 



LOSAEIA SAMBILANGA. 



Papilio Bonhleilayi, var. Samhikmga, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 263. 

 Papilio Ddiih/eclayi. subsp. Samhilaiuja, Rothschild, Nov. Zciol. ii. p. 254 (1895). 



Tmaoo. — " Intermediate between DouhJedayi and Bhodifer. The tail is black in 

 Donblednyi. Of the discal semicircle of whitish spots on the hindwing, that on the 

 abdominal margin is very short, those between the middle median and the radial are 

 generally absent above and quite rudimentary below. The anal orange spot is large, 

 the marginal one at the end of the middle median is joined with the submarginal one 

 between the two upper medians, both above and below, very much as in Bhodifer. 

 The female is similar, but the wings are wider and the tails much shorter and 

 broader." 



Habitat. — Great Nicobar Island. 



Distribution. — Mr. Dohertj^ states that it is " rather common on Great Nicobar 

 Island " (/.'•.). We have not seen specimens of this species. 



LOSARIA EHODIFER (Plate 440, fig. 1, J, la, ? ). 



Papilio Bhodifer, Butler, Entoni. Monthly JIag. xiii. p. .57 (1876). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lonil. 

 1877, p. 592. Oberthiir, Etudes Ent. iv. p. 45 (1879). Wood-Mason, Journ. A.s. Soc. Bengal, 

 1880, p. 240 ; de Nicuville, ih. 1881, p. 253. Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 6, fig. 3, ^ (1884). 

 Haase, Untersuch. lib. Mim. p. 26, pi. 6, tig. 40 (1893). Rotlischild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 254 

 (1895). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forcicinij long and narrow ; fuliginous-black, with 

 ])ale fuliginous-grey short broad streaks bordering the outer veins and longitudinal 

 streaks within the cell. Hindn-hnj black ; abdominal margin brown ; with a central 

 white vein-divided patch extending across half the cell to near its apex, and within 

 the basal interspaces of the outer veins to the submedian interspace below the cell, 

 the portion in the lower median interspace being small and narrow, that in the 

 middle median minute or absent, very rarely one is also present in the upj)er median 

 interspace ; beyond are three submarginal whitish lunules, the upper one being' much 

 the smallest or obsolescent, and then two lower marginal larger lobed-lunules 

 extending upward from the inner angles, the two latter being pale crimson and 

 slightly speckled anteriorly with white and black scales, and posteriorly with pale 



