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p. 205. EUves, Traus. Ent. Soc. Lond. iSS8, p. 427. Leech, Butt, of Chinn, p. 53.3 (1893). 



de Niceville, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1899, p. 33.5. Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 383 



(1895). 

 Acliillideit AretuTus, Swinhoe, Trans. Eat. Soc. Lond. 1803, p. 311. 

 Papilio {AcMlKdes) Arctunis, de Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. 172. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing brownish-black, veins and intervening 

 streaks black ; numerously irrorated witli bright green scales ; with a transverse 

 narrow fascia, composed of densely-packed green scales, becoming more or less 

 obsolescent anteriorly. Hindiving black, the basal and lower outer area including 

 the tail irrorated with bright green scales; with an irregular-shaped bright blue 

 apical broken-patch extending upward from below apex of the cell and thence 

 outward below end of upper subcostal ; at the anal angle is a large dark red ocellus 

 with an anterior violet-scaled streak and black centre, this ocellus being inwardly 

 bordei^ed by a lengthened recurved prominent green-scaled streak ; the submargin 

 also bearing a series of violet-scaled deep red lunules of which the two lowest are 

 almost or quite obsolete. Cilia alternated with white. Underside brown-black. 

 Forewmg with the veins and streaks black ; basal area very sparsely irrorated with 

 grey scales ; a broad discal greyish fascia, traversed by the black veins and streaks, 

 narrowing and becoming paler or greyish-white hindward. Hindwhig black 

 outwardly between the veins ; the basal and lower discal area irrorated with grey 

 scales ; a prominent submargiual series of lai'ge deep red lunules, an anal and a 

 larger lower ocellus with black centre, all anteriorly bearing a violet-scaled streak ; 

 the white ciha inwardly bordered by a slight red lunule. Bodi/, legs, and antennJB 

 black ; thorax and frontal tuft green speckled ; head and palpi white spotted ; 

 abdomen and femora beneath, grey speckled. 



Female. Upperside similar to the male. Ifiinhviiig with the i-ed submargiual 

 lunules and anal ocellus more prominent. Underside similar to the male. 



Expanse, c? 4 to 5, ? 5 inches. 



Habitat. — N. -Western and Eastern Himalayas ; Assam; Khasias; Burma. 



Distribution. — Major J. W. Yei'bury records it as " common in the X.-W. 

 Himalaya, at Murree and Thundiani, in August" (Ann. N. H. 188S, 20o). A male 

 from Kala, N.-W. Himalaya, taken in June by Capt. H. McArthur, is in ]\[r. J. H. 

 Leech's collection. Gen, G. Ramsay took it in Nepal. Mr. H. J. Elwes records it 

 as being " found in 8ikkim, in snnilar places and at the same time of year as 

 P. Krishna. It has similar habits, but is less abundant as a rule. I have seen it in 

 the forest paths, where it occasionally settles " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 427). Mr. G. C. 

 Dudgeon obtained it in Bhotan, at 7,000 feet elevation in March. Col. C. Swinhoe 

 records it from the Khasia Hills (Tr. Ent. Soc. 189o, 311). A. male from Burma is 

 in Mr. W. Rothschild's collection. Mr. T. A. Hauxwell obtained it in the Taoo 



