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Habitat. — Ts''epal ; Sikkira ; Bliotan ; Assam ; Cacbar ; Khasia Hills ; Burma ; 

 Shan States ; C. and W. China. 



Distribution. — A female from Nepal, from Gen. G. Ramsay's collection is in our 

 possession, and another in the British Musenm. Mr. H. J. Ehves records it from 

 Sikkim, " males being found not uncommonly in the lower valleys, and up to 5000 or 

 6000 feet, from April to October. The female is rare " (Tr. Eat. Soc. 1888, 429). 

 Mr. L. de Niceville says, " both sexes are rai'e in Sikkim, the female especially so. 

 It occurs from April to October, and from the level of the Tei-ai up to 6000 feet" 

 (Sikkim Gaz. 189-i, 171). Mr. G. C. Dudgeon took males in Bhotan, in July. 

 Capt. B. Y. Watson obtained it in Assam. Mr. J. Wood-Mason records " two 

 females, captured on Nemotha Peak, Cachar, in September, which were flying in 

 company with Pajh Dasarada " (Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 374). Col. 

 C. Swinhoe received " a number of both sexes from the Khasia Hills " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 

 1893, 312). A male, labelled " Barrackpur," near Calcutta, taken by the late Gen. 

 Hearsey, is in the British Museum. Col. C. H. E. Adamsou obtained both sexes in 

 the Arakan Hills, in April, and males in the Taoo plateau. Upper Tenasserim, in 

 March. Both sexes have also been taken at Moolai, Upper Tenasserim. Mr. 

 L. de Nic(5ville records " males only, taken by Mr. T. A. Hauxwell in the Daunat Range, 

 Upper Tenasserim, in February " (Journ. Bombay N. H. S. 1899, 335). Capt. Longe, 

 R.E., obtained "a single male at 2000 feet, on the Mauipur River, in February, and 

 Dr. Graves captured a male at 5000 feet during the rains " (Journ. Bombay N. H. S. 

 1897, 671). Dr. N. Manders records it as " apparently an uncommon species in the 

 Shan States, as I have only taken it at Fort Stedmau in October" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 

 1890, 535).^ 



Chinese Species. — Piow-rniiopsis Elircsi (Papilio Elwesi, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. 1889, p. 113, pi. 7, fig. l,c?; ih. Butt, of China, ii. p. 550 (1893). Watson, 

 Entom. News, p. 279, pi. 12, ? (1893). Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 335 (1895). 

 Habitat. C. China. 



Genus ILIADES. 



Jliades, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sehniett. p. 88 (1816). Jloore, Lop. of Ceylon, i. p. 147 (1S81). 

 Papilio (part), Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 5 (1846). 



Pa2nUo (sect. 6.5, siibsect. A, B, C), FelJer, Verb. Z. B. Ge.^. Wien. pp. 323, 371, 372 (1.S64). 

 Papilio (group x.), Eotlischild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. /il'i (1S95). 



Imago. — Wings large. Forcichn/ elongatedly-triangular ; costa much archeil, 

 exterior margin very oblique, posterior margin sliort ; cell long and broad; first 

 subcostal branch emitted at one-third and second at one-fifth before end of the cell, 

 third branch from its end, fifth at one-third from below the fourth ; discocellulars 

 of equal length, upper slightly oblique, radial from their angle ; median branches at 

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