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iiTorated with blue scales, and the posterior half with green scales ; a deep I'ed anal 

 ocellus with a large black centre and anterior violet-scaled lunule, followed by three 

 lower submargin'al red lunules. Underside. Forewing greyish-black with black veins 

 and streaks, the outer intervening spaces being paler grey. Hindwiiuj deep black, the 

 base and abdominal margin speckled with dull green scales; a subinarginal complete 

 series of six deep red lunules each bearing anteriorly a violet-scaled sti'eak ; a 

 similar coloured coalesced anal and subanal ocellus with black centre ; cilia slenderly 

 alternated with white. Head, thorax, and body above black, speckled with green 

 scales ; anteun^ and legs black. 



Expanse, <S 5 inches. 



Haiutat. — South Shan States, Burma ; Tonkin ; Hainan, 



Differs from P. Eleplienor in the hindwing being broader, the outer margin 

 produced into a very short and blunt tail-like point at end of the middle median 

 veinlet. 



Our illustration on Plate 489, fig. 3, is copied from Mr. de Niceville's published 

 figure. 



Genus ACHILLIDES. 



AchilUdes, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 85 (1816). Kirby, Allen's Nat. Libr. Butt. ii. p. 297 



(1896). 

 PapiUo (part), Doubleday and Hewitson. 



Pa2)ilw (sect. 64, pt.), Felder, Verb. Z. B. Ges. Wien. 186i, pp. 323, 371. 

 Papilio (group 24), Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 383 (1895). 



Imago. — Male. ForewiiKj broadly triangular ; costa much arched, exterior 

 margin oblique and very slightly scalloped ; tomentose streaks not present. 

 Hindwing short, broad ; exterior margin oblique, scalloped, with a broad large 

 spatulate tail. AntenuEe with a lengthened slender club. 



Laeva. — (Arjuna). Somewhat limaciform ; anterior segments scutellated, the 

 shield raised in front of the head. 



Pdpa. — Curved backward, the head projected and slightly bifid in front ; thorax 

 dorsally convex. 



Type. — A. Paris. 



ACHILLIDES ARCTURITS (Plate 490, fig. 1, ^). 



Papilio Arcturus, Westwood, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1842, p. 37 ; id. Arcana Entom. i. p. 101, pi. 27 (1843). 

 Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 11 (1846). Gray, Catal. Lep. B. M. i. p. 21 (1852). 

 Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 108 (1857) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 757. Felder, 

 Verb. Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, p. 323. Butler, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 377 ; id. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1888, 



