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form is reduced to a short point but little more acute tliau the anal angle, the 

 forewing is comparatively narrower, and the hindwing less convex and with less 

 acutely sinuous exterior margin. Upperside of a paler yellow. Foretving numerously 

 covered with yellow scales between all the markings ; cell-bars shorter transversely 

 and broader, the inner bar being regularly quadrate; the discal band also com- 

 paratively narrower, and with more slender intervening black veins ; the submarginal 

 row of spots is broader, and the intervening transverse discal area is narrower. 

 Hwdwing with the outer edge of the yellow basal area excavated between the veins, 

 the submarginal spots shorter and somewhat broader, the anal lobe-spot smaller and 

 broader." 



Female. Upperside similar to the male. Forewing with still broader cell-l)ars 

 and submarginal spots. Underside similar to the male. 



Expanse, 3J to o^ inches. 



Habitat. — Ladak. 



Distribution. — The type specimen was obtained by Dr. F. Sioliczka at Tarhsam, 

 Ladak. Specimens from Dras and Skoro La, Ladak, taken in June and July, are in 

 Mr. J. H. Leech's collection, and a male from Ladak, taken by Capt. F. B. S. 

 Adair, and a female from Lahul, Ladak, at 12,000 feet elevation, taken by Mr. G. C. 

 Dudgeon, are in the British Museum. Mr. L. de Niceville records it as having 

 been taken, during the Pamir Boundary Commission, on the ascent to Burzil 

 Pass, 11,000 feet elevation, and also near the Baroghil Pass, about 14,000 feet " 

 (/.(•. p. 43). 



Our illustration, Plate 482, fig. 2, is copied from a drawing of the type specimen 

 in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



PAPILIO SIKKIMENSIS (Plate 482, fig. 3, (J, 3a, ? ). 



Papilio Siklcimensis, Moore, Journ. Asiatic See. Bengal, 1884, p. 32. 



PapUio Machaon, Elwes, Trans. Ent. See. Lond. 1888, p. 437. de Niceville, Journ. Bombaj' N. H. 

 See. 1890, p. 387. Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1890, p. 520. Watson, Journ. Bombay 

 N. H. Soc. 1897, p. 671. Leech, Butt, of China, p. 516 (part), pi. 37, fig. 2, g (1893). de 

 Niceville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 175. 



Papilio Machaon Silikimensis, Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 276 (1895). 



Ijiago. — Male and female. Upperside. Differs from N.W. Himalayan and 

 Nepalese specimens of /'. asiafini in the much darker l)lack colour, and deeper tint 

 of yellow. Forewing with the yellow cell-bars quadi'ate in form, the discal band 

 composed of smaller and shorter portions, and the area intervening between the 

 band and the submarginal spots broader. Eindwing with the veins broadly black- 

 lined, the abdominal border is black and broader, leaving but a small subanal 

 yellow lunule ; the discal border of the yellow area has a more regularly scalloped 



