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in the British Museum. Mr. G. C. Dudgeon took it in Bhotan ; Col. C. Swinhoe 

 has received "a great number of specimens from the Khasia Hills" (Tr. Eut. Soc. 

 1893, 313). Col. C. H. E. Adamson " took two males in Akyab, in March. It also 

 occurs not nucommonlj at Katha in Upper Burma" (List, 1897, 48). Specimens 

 from Tenasserim are in the British Museum. 



PATHYSA NOMIUS (Plate 477, fig. 1, la, larva m\A pupa, lb, c, S, Id, e, ? ). 



Fapilio Nomim, Esper, Ausl. Schmett. p. 210, pi. 52, fig. 3 (1785-93). Boisduval, Spec. Geu. Lep. L 



p. 251 (1836). Bfirge, Schmett. 109, pi. 34, fig. 3 (1842). Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. 



Lep.i. p. 14(1846). Moore, Catil. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 115 (1857), id.V. Z. S. (1867), 



p. 678. Oberthiir, Etud. Ent. iv. p. 63 (1879). Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 9 (1884). 



Eimer, Artbild. Schmett. p. 164, fig. Q, et pi. 3, fig. 4 (18S9). Davidson and Aitken, Journ. 



Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 364, pi. E, fig. I, la, larva and pujja. Beetham, id. 1891, p. 330. 



Eothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 421 (1895). de Niccville, Journ. As. See. Beng. 1899, p. 223. 

 Pathysa Nomius, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 142, pi. 62, fig. 2 (1881). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Lond. 1893, p. 313. 

 Fapilio (Pathysa) Nomius, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1885, p. 51. Hampson, id. 1888, 



p. 364. Ferguson, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891, p. 446. 

 Princeps Heroicus Megcs, Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. i. pi. 106 (1806-24). 

 Jphidides Meges, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 82 (1816). 



Fapilio Niamus, Godart, Encyc. Meth. ix. p. 51 (1819). Swainson, Zjol. Illustr. ii. pi. 32 (1831-3). 

 Fapilio Orestes, Gray, Catal. Lep. B. M. i. p. 29 (1852). Batler, Catal. Eabr. Lep. B. M. p. 240 



(1869). 

 ? Fapilio Orestes, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 34 (1793). 

 Fapilio Orestes, var. Feld. Yerh. Z. B. Gas. Wien. 18G4, pp. 302-346. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside bluish-white. Forewing with six black transverse 

 bands and a broad outer-marginal band ; the first slender and at extreme base, 

 second and third extending to the posterior margin, fourth generally ending below the 

 cell, but not reaching to the lower median, fifth and sixth extending only across the 

 cell ; the marginal band broader than in P. Anticmtes, its inner-edge being excurved 

 between the veins, and submarginally traversed by a row of rounded white spots, 

 of which the apical second is placed obliquely outward. Hiudwing with a blackish 

 grey slender extreme abdominal marginal fold, fringed with grey hairs ; a black 

 transverse subbasal and an inner-discal band, both ending posteriorly in a cross 

 macular bar near and above anal angle ; beyond is a broad black marginal band 

 with excurved inner-edge between the veins, and traversed by a I'ow of white 

 lunules, the caudal inner-interspaces of the band and the lower lunules being 

 speckled with grey scales. In some specimens the two inner transverse bands, on 

 both wings, are narrower and more attenuated posteriorly. Cilia and edges of tail 

 slenderly alternated with white. Underside. Forewing bluish-white, with trans- 



