PAPILIONIN.£. 63 



Plateau, Middlo Tenasserim, 4,000 feet elevation, in December " (J. Bombny N. H. S. 

 1899, 335). 



ACHILLIDES KRISHNA (PJate 490, fig. 2, ^). 



Papilio Krit-hna, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. East Ind. Company, i. p. 108, pi. 2a, fig. 6, (^ (1857) ; ih. 

 Prop. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1865, p. 757. FeKler, Verb. Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, p. 323. Oborthur, 

 Etud. Ent. iv. p. 39 (1879). Staudinger, Esot. Schmett. i. p. 8 (1884). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. 1888, p. 427. Eothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 384 (1895). 



Fajnlio {AchilHdes) Krishna, de Niceville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 171. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black. Foreioing irrorated with bright green scales ; 

 with a prominent transverse discal vein-divided narrow band conaposed mostly of 

 bright golden-green scales ; cilia white. Hindwhuj with the basal and lower 

 marginal area irrorated with bright green scales ; with a broad and outwardly- 

 angular bright blue apical patch, which is continued from below the apex of the 

 cell, in a narrow bright golden-green scaled streak, to the submedian vein and is 

 thence bent inward above the anal ocellus ; beyond are four lower submarginal 

 crimson lunules and an anal ocellus, each anteriorly traversed by violet scales ; cilia 

 alternated with white and inwardly edged by a narrow red lunule. Underside. 

 Dark sepia-brown. Forewing with black veins and streaks, the transverse discal 

 band creamy-white and slightly wider, the outer border of the wing to near the 

 margin being dusky-grey. Hindiving with a transverse discal creamy-white narrow 

 band decreasing from the costa to upper median veinlet and thence bent sinuously 

 inward inore narrowly to above the anal ocellus, followed by a submarginal complete 

 series of six crimson lunules, an anal ocellus, and cilial red lunules as on upperside. 

 Body black, green speckled above ; frontal tuft and palpi entirely black ; collar white 

 spotted ; legs and antennae black. 



Female. Upperside and underside similar to the male. 



Expanse, S ? 4 to 4|- inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim; Bhotan. 



DiSTRiUDTiON. — Mr. H. J. Eiwes records it as a " common species in Sikkim, in 

 some seasons at certain places, and found from 3,000 up to 9,000 feet elevation, but 

 difficult to catch in good condition. I have seen it most often on or about the bare 

 tops of hills, like Sinchul, wliich are clothed with dense Chestnut, Oak, and 

 Magnolia forest, in which it probably lives and breeds, and comes out on sunny 

 mornings into the openings, where alone it can be taken. The female is very rare 

 only one or two being known to us. Its season is from May to August " (Tr. Ent. 

 Soc. 1888, 427). Mr. G. C. Dudgeon obtained it in Bhotan, and in Sikkim at 8,000 

 feet elevation. 



