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1897, 47). Capt. E. Y. Watson found it " oommon in Rangoon, and Beeliug, Upper 

 Tenasserim" (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1888, 26). Dr. J, Anderson obtained it in 

 " Mergui in December and ^larcli ; at Timing, King Island, in February', and on 

 Elpliinstone Island in IMarcli " (Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1830, .50). It also occurs 

 in Siam ; Malay Peninsula ; Hainan; Hong Kong ; Formosa; S.China. 



The larva of this butterfly does not appear to have yet been found in India or 

 Burma. The larva of the allied species (T. Memnon) feeds on Citrit-^ (Order 

 Rutaceaj). 



ILIADES MAYO (Plate 450, fig. 1, la, S ; 11^.?)- 



rapilio Mayo, Atkinson, Proc. Zool. S-'c. Loud. 1873, p. 736, pi. 03, fig. 1, ^ . Moore, P. Z. S. 1S77, 



p. 592. Ohertlnir, Etudes Ent. iv. ji. 3t (1879). Wooil-Miison and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. 



Bengal, 1880, p. 237, g ; id. 1881, p. 252, c? ?• Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 8 (1884). 



Haase, Untersucb. ub. Mim. p. 55, pi. G, fig. 38, ? , 39, cj (1893). Rjoliscbild, Xov. ZjoI. ii. 



p. 322, S § (1895). 

 Fapilio Charicles, Hewit^on, Ann. and Mag. Xat. Hist. 1874, p. 350. $; id. Esot. Butt. v. Pap. 



pl. 14, fig. 45, ? (1875). 



iM.-iGO. — Male. Upperside. Both wings rich purpurescent blue-black ; cilia 

 alternated slightly with white. Forewing generally with a more or less slightly- 

 defined submartjinal row of very short longitudinal ocLi'eous-grey scaled streaks 

 between the outer veins. Bindu-ivg with a short tooth at end of the upper median 

 veitdet ; a transverse curved discal conspicuous cobalt-blue band, which is narrowest 

 and bi'oken at the costal end and extends to the abdominal margin above the anal 

 angle, the band varying in width posteriorly from five-tenths to seven-tenths of an 

 inch in its widest part, and is intersected by the black veins, its inner edges being- 

 curved and the outer edges sinuous. Underside. Fureicing paler purpurescent 

 blue-black ; the crimson streak at base of the cell either slightly defined or absent ; 

 the submarginal short longitudinal streaks between the veins distinct and bluish- 

 grey. Hindivhuj deep black; the crimson basal spots small and either slightly 

 defined or distinct ; with a transverse-discal curved row of blue-grey scaled luuules, 

 the lower sometimes being more or less speckled with scarlet scales ; an anal black 

 spot either partly grey or scarlet bordered, and generally one, or two, lower- 

 submarginal scarlet lunules. Head and thorax black ; abdomen fuliginous-black ; 

 front of thorax white spotted ; legs black above, greyish-white beneath ; antennae 

 black. 



Female. Upperside. Cilia alternated with white. Foreaung fuliginous-black ; 

 with a large crimson basal cell patch ; longitudinal cell-streaks fuliginous, outer 

 vein-streaks paler fuliginous, broad, short, and extending from the median vein to 

 one-third the outer margin. Hindnniig intense black; with a large white cell-patch, 

 three outer contiguous upper-discal smaller white spots, the upper one smallest, and 

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