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elevation" (Ent. Mo. Mng. 1S64, 101). In Mr. J. H. Leech's collection are 

 specimens taken in the Goorais Valley in May, June, and Septembei-; Kokser, 

 Lahul, Jnly, Kutjiar, 6,000 feet, April, Jalauri Pass, May, and Kala in June, taken 

 by Capt. H. McArthur. Major J. W. Yerbury obtained " a few specimens at 

 Campbellpur in June and July. It was common at Murree in August, and found 

 commonly on the lower slopes of Thundiani in September" (P. Z. S. 1886, 377). 

 The Rev. J. H. Hocking took it in the Kangra District at 6,200 feet. The larva 

 found on Parsnip on July 9th, the imago emerging August 6th. Also found on the 

 Samp, a kind of Fennel on March 20th (P. Z. S. 1882, 258). Mr. P. W. Mackinnon 

 records it as " very common all over the N.W. Himalayas, right up to the frontiers 

 of Tibet, where it meets and merges into the aberration P. LadaJcensis, and flies 

 from April to November, in the lower and warmer regions, being at least double- 

 brooded. In the cold and higher regions it is single- brooded. The tails of those 

 from the Nilung Valley vary greatly in length, some specimens have hardly any, 

 while others have them very long, as long as in typical Machaon. In Masuri the 

 larva feeds on a species of Heracleum, N. 0. Umbelliferas. The butterfly is also 

 found sparingly in the Dun " (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1808, 592). Mr. W. Doherty 

 found it " common from 2,000 feet in the Sarju and Kali Valleys up to 14,000 feet 

 in Bijans, and 12,500 feet in the Piudari Valley, Kumaon " (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, 

 136). Capt. T. Hutton found it " at Deyrah in the Valley of the Dhun. It is seen 

 on the wing as early as February, and in April its larvae are abundant on the 

 Carrot. At Masuri, in the Hills, it appears in the latter end of March, and 

 continues till October, its larva is green, with a black velvety transverse band 

 across each segment, bearing four spots of bright orange ; it possesses the orange- 

 coloured retractile process on the head, from which it exudes a liquid drop of a 

 strong: aromatic scent when it is touched. The food is the wild and the garden 

 Carrot, and the leaves and flowers of the Radish. I have taken the larvte at 

 Masuri early in May, and the pupjs on May 18th. It is also abundant at Simla, 

 and extends far into the interior " (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1847, 47). General G. 

 Ramsay obtained it in the " Hills and Valleys of Nepal " (MS. Notes). 



Of our illustrations on Plate 481, fig. 1, larvas and pupa3 are copied from 

 Major H. C. Hai'ford's original di-awings, made at Kausali in 1889; fig. la, b, S, 

 Ic, ? , f rom Kausali, and on Plate 482, fig. 1 is a male from Nepal. 



PAPILIO LADAKENSIS (Plate 4S2, fig. 2, S)- 



Papilio Ladaliensiif, Moore, Journ. Asiatic Soe. Bengal, 1881, p. 31. de Niceville, Report of Pamir 



Boundary Com. p. 43 (1898). 

 Papilio Maehaon Sphyriis, aber. Ladakensis, Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 275 (1898). 



Imago. — " Male. Distinguishable from N.W. Himalayan and Nepalese specimens 

 of P. asiutica by the absence of the elongated tail on the hindwing, which in this 



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