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througli by semi-transpai-ency ; a black outer-marginal narrow band wbicb widens 

 posteriorly, including the tail, and ends upward at the abdominal angle in a broken 

 more or less bright crimson black-edged spot, this band is also posteriorly inwardly 

 bordered with grey scales and bears a triangular white anal spot below the crimson 

 one, a similar white marginal spot in the angle of the upper median interspace, two 

 grey-scaled lunules in the two lower median interspaces, and also a very slender 

 streak in the subcostal interspaces. Underside. Forewing with similar black bands 

 as on upperside, the basal and anterior interspaces olivescent tinted. Hindwing 

 pale olivescent tinted ; with a black basal, subbasal, and a medial band, coalesced 

 posteriorly above the anal angle, the latter traversed anteriorly and posteriorly 

 outwardly-bordered by crimson zigzag broken streaks, followed by a marginal black 

 band with markings as on upperside. Body above blackish, beneath and palpi 

 pinkish- white ; abdomen with a black lateral band ; thorax above laterally clothed 

 with long silky grey hairs ; collar and head above with a lateral pale crimson band ; 

 legs olivescent-grey ; antennse black. 



Female. Upperside duller white than in male. Forewing with the black medial, 

 cell, and oblique submarginal band somewhat broader, the medial band extending 

 to below the submedian vein. Hindwing as in male. Underside as in male. 



Expanse, <? 3, 9 2>^q inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Assam; Khasias ; Burma; Tenasserim ; Shan States. 



Distribution. — Mr. L. de Niceville records it as " occurring in Sikkim, in the 

 outer valleys, such as the Sivoke, in April and May. It is rare, and probably single 

 brooded " (Sikkim Gaz. 1894, 174). Mr. G. C. Dudgeon took it in Bhotan. Col. C. 

 Swinhoe has received " several hundreds, all males, from the Khasia Hills " (Tr. Ent. 

 Soc. 1893, 313). Col. C. H. E. Adamson obtained "two males in Burma, while 

 imbibing moisture from damp sand, in February and March" (List, 1897, 48). Col. 

 C. T. Bingham obtained specimens in Thoungyeen, Upper Tenasserim. TTe have 

 two males from the Upper Mekong, Shan States, taken by Mr. R. Roberts, C.E. 



Indo-Malayan Species.- — Deoris Iponus (Papilio Iponus, Fruhstorfer, Soc. Ent. 

 1002, p. 57). Pap. i^getes. Distant, Rliop. Malay, p. 4G9, pi. 42, fig. 8 (1886). 

 Habitat. Malay Peninsula. — Deoris inndaris (Pap. Agetes var. insularis, Staudinger, 

 Iris, vii. p. 349 (1895). Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 417 (1895). de Niceville, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1895, p. 524. Pap. Kinabalensis, Fruhstorfer, I.e. 1902, p. 58. 

 Habitat. Sumatra ; Borneo. — Deoris tenuiliueatus (Pap. Agetes subsj). tenuilineatu?, 

 Fruhstorfer, Soc. Ent. 1901, p. 90, id. Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1902, p. 199. Habitat. 

 S. Aunam. — Deoris Stratiotes (Pap. Stratiotes, Grose-Smith, Ann. Nat. Hist. 18S7, 

 p. 433. Honrath, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1883, p. 3 19, pi. G, fig. 3 (1888). Eimer, Artbild. 

 Schmett. p. 151, fig. P. (1889). Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 417 (1895). Habitat. 

 Borneo. 



