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Expanse, t? 5, ? 6 inclios. 



Habitat.— N. E. India. 



Distribution. — The tj^pe specimen of tlio male (fig. 1) was taken in tlie Jaintia 

 Hills, Assam, bj Col. Swinhoe's native collectors, and is now in the collection of 

 Mr. W. Rothschild at Tring. The female (fig. 2) was taken by Mr. James Rotliney, 

 in Barrackpur Park, near Calcutta, in March, 188G, and is now in our own 

 collection. 



ILIADES POLYMNESTOR (Plate 46l', fig. 1 larni and piq,a, la, <^, lb, ? ). 



Papilio Pohjmnestor, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. p. 83, pi. 53, fig. A, B, J (1775). Cloeze, Ent. Beytr. iii. 

 1, p. 83 (1779). Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 9 (17S1). Jablonsky, Nut. Schmett. ii. p. 11, pi. 7, 

 fig. 3, 4 (1784). Esper, Ausl. Schmett. p. 77, pi. 19, fig. 1 (1785). Donovan, Ins. of India, 

 pi. 20, fig. 2, $ (1800). Godart, Ency. Meth. ix. p. 29 (1819). Lucas, Lep. Exot. p. 21, pi. 12, 

 fig. 1 (1835). BoLsd. Spec. Gun. Lep. i. p. l'.»l (,1836). Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. 

 i. p. 10 (1816). Chenu, Ency. Hist. Nat. Pap. pi. 3, fig. 2 (1851). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. 

 E. I. Company, i. p. 101, pi. 3, fig. 1, UJana 2.nA pupa (1857) ; id. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 756. Butler, 

 Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 256 (lfc69). Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 8 (1884). de Niccville, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Bi;ngal, 1885, p. 51. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 430. Davidson and 

 Aitken, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1«90, p. 366. Betbam, ih. I.e. 1892, p. 325. Rothschild, 

 Nov. Zool. ii. p. 324 (1895). 



Iliades Pulymnesfor, Hlibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 88 (181G). Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 144. 



Pajnliu {Iliades) Pulyriumfor, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 51. Ferguson, Journ. 

 Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891, p. 446. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich blue-black ; cilia alternated with white. Fore- 

 whig with a transverse discal pale bluish-grey scaled interrupted band composed of 

 short longitudinal streaks between the veins, these streaks being most intense and 

 widest posteriorly, and decreasing both in width and length anteriorly, where thsy 

 obsolescently terminate at the lower subcostal branch. Hindwiug with the outer 

 area, from a fourth, or third, of the apex of the cell, pale greyish-blue, cro.ssed by a 

 curved discal series of seven black spots, situated between the veins, these spots 

 being either oval or broadly conical ; followed by a submarginal similar row of 

 spots and then a marginal row of angled spots, these latter being at the vein ends 

 decreasing anteriorly m width, and sometimes there partly coalesce with the opposite 

 submarginal spot. Underside duller blue-black. Forewing with a crimson basal cell 

 streak ; discal vein-streaks extending anteriorly to the costa, these being dull 

 ochreous-grey anteiiorly and bluish-grey posteriorly, nindwlug with crimson basal 

 patches ; the outer discal area, from beyond the cell, dull ochreous-grey, traversed 

 by the discal, submarginal, and marginal black spots, as on upperside. 



Female. Upperside. Foreicing duller black, in some fuliginous-black, with the 

 cell streaks and that between the veins black ; the discal streaks paler bluish-grey ; 

 base cf cell sometimes sparsely speckled with crimson scales. Ilindwing similar to 



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