PAPiLiOixiJsryE. is:) 



Imago. — Male. Forewinr/ fuliginous or grejish-black, with a black or blue-black 

 loiifritudinal streak between the veins and similar streaks within the cell ; cilia 

 alternately edged with white. Niruhring blue-black, with a broad longitudinal greyish- 

 white scaled streak below the costal vein ; outer discal area more or less irrorated 

 with scattered minute blue scales ; an ocellated crimson spot with black centre at the 

 anal angle, the crimson being outwardly edged with bluish-grey scales ; cilia 

 alternately edged with wliite. Underside. Foreunnr/ greyish-fuliginous, the black 

 streaks prominent. Hindivinr/ black ; with a large, duller crimson violet-scaled 

 ocellated anal patch which extends irregularly inward to or near the middle median, 

 and is posteriorly coalescent with a large lower anal ocellus with black centre ; 

 beyond, are either two upper marginal dull crimson incomplete ocelli speckled with 

 bluish-white scales, or a series of five lunules, the thi'ee lower being placed more 

 submarginally inward and decreasing in size posteriorly ; a few minute blue scales are 

 scattered inwardly contiguous to the latter lunules. 



Female. Upperside. Both wings paler. Hinihriitrj with the upper discal area 

 or the entire wing to the base irrorated with minute bluish-grey scales ; a large 

 anal dull crimson violet-speckled irregulai-shaped ocellated patch, and lower anal 

 ocellus, very similar to that on the uiulei'side of the male ; a small crimson sub- 

 marginal lunule is also sometimes present between the lower and middle median 

 vcinlet. Underside paler. ///H'/yy/;/^ with similar markings to the male; the anal 

 irregular patch and lower anal ocellus being larger and coalescent, the former some- 

 times extending outward to near the upper median, and is also occasionally followed 

 by a slender lunule beyond the upper median veinlet. Head, pali^i, thorax, and 

 abdomen, legs and antenna? black ; coHar and vertex with a few white-tipt 

 scales. 



Expanse, 6 Sg- to 5, ? 41- to 5 inches. 



Lakva. — Head small, anterior segments increasing in size to the fourth and 

 thence of nearly same thickness to near the end ; second and last segment each with 

 a pair of short blunt tubercles; colour green, with a yellow collar, and brown 

 lichenoid markings. 



Pupa. — Unknown. 



Habitat.- — ^W. and E. Himalayas ; Assam ; Khasia Hills ; Burma ; C. and A\'. 

 China ; Tonkin ; Hong Kong. 



Distribution axd Hauits. — " This is by no means an uncommon species in the 

 warm glens of the Masuri Hills, X.W. Himalaya, and it is common in the Dhun. 

 Its flight is somewhat heavy and unsteady " (Capt. T. Hutton, Tr. Ent. Soe. 1847, 

 49). "A considerable number seen together, in the Masuri Hills, floating and flapping 

 their wings lazily, and then settling on the blossoms in waste marshy ground over- 

 grown with Gomjwsitx (thistles). I have also seen a number congregated with Vap. 



