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extended ends, and an anal ocellus, each traversed by violet-blue scales, followed 

 by more or less defined marginal ocbreous-red cilial-lunules, the two lower pair 

 generally being ocellated ; cilia alternated with white. Body, legs, and antenna 

 black ; body and thorax above, and frontal tuft, green speckled ; collar and palpi 

 white spotted. 



Female. Upperside and underside similar to the male, except that on the 

 hindwing, above, the green patch is somewhat smaller, the costal portion of which is 

 replaced by an obscure red lunule. 



Expanse, 4|- to 5 inches. 



Larva and Pupa. — Unknown. 



Habitat. — "Western, Central, and Eastern Himalayas; Assam; Burma; Shan 

 States; Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula; Siam ; Tonkin; B. China; Hong Kong; 

 Hainan. 



Distribution and Habits. — Mr. W". Doherty obtained it in the " Kali Valley, 

 Kumaon, W. Himalaya, at 2,000 to 3,000 feet elevation " (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, 

 136). Gen. G. Eamsay obtained it in Nepal. Mr. H. J. Ehves records it as "the 

 commonest of the green Papilios, in the low valleys of Sikkim, and found up to 

 5,000 feet elevation. It settles on flower heads and damp sand in river beds, and 

 flies rapidly up and down their banks. The female is very seldom taken " (Tr. Ent. 

 Soc. 1888, 427). Mr. L. de Niceville says it is " very common in Sikkim, from the 

 Terai up to 5,000 feet, and flies all through the year except during the three coldest 

 months " (Sikkim Gaz. 1894, 171). Mr. G. C. Dudgeon took it in Bhotan. Mr. J. 

 Wood-Mason obtained " two males in Cachar " (J, As. Soc. Beng. 1886, 377). Col. 

 C. Swinhoe records it from the Khasia Hills (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 312). Col. C. H. E. 

 Adamson says it is " rare in Burma. 1 have taken only three specimens, two at 

 Bhamo, and one in Tenasserim " (List, 1897, 47). Capt. E. Y. Watson obtained it 

 at Tilin in March, and at Choungkwa in May, during the Chin-Lushai Expedition 

 of 1889-90" (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1891, 54). Signer L. Fea obtained it in the 

 Karen Hills from July to October. Mr. Elwes records " a few males from Tavoy, 

 Ponsekai, and the Hills on the Siamese frontier" (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, 437). 

 We possess males from the Upper Mekong, Shan States, Siam, taken by Mr. R. 

 Roberts, C.E. Dr. N. Manders says it is a " common species everywhere in the 

 Shan States, and in Karenni " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 535). A male, from Thaiping, 

 Malay Peninsula, is in Mr. W. Rothschild's collection. 



ACHILLIDES TAMILANA (Plate 492, fig. 1, S, la, ? ). 



Papilio Paris, var. Moore, Catal. Lop. Mus. E. I. Company, i.p. 107 (1857). 



Fapilio Tamilana, Mooi-e, Trans. Ent. Sjc. Lond. 1881, p. 313. Davidson and Aitken, Journ. 

 Bombay Nafc. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 581. 

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