74 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



PgPA — " Head with processes like Pap. Eelenus, diverging considerably; thorax 

 running up into a short laterally-compressed process, rounded on the top " (T. R. 

 Bell, MS. Note). 



TypE. — T. Castor. 



Mimicry. — Tlie normal female of T. Castor is probably a mimic of the Euploeine 

 butterflies TirumaJa Limniace or Caduga Melaneus, and also bears a fair resemblance 

 to the protected Papilionine, Chilasa dissimilis. The female of T. Mehala, also, has 

 a similar resemblance to Chilasa Oiipape. Both sexes of T. Dravidarum are 

 excellent mimics of the Euploeine butterfly, Crastia Core, and have a resemblance 

 also to Chilasa Castjapa. The male of T. Mahadeva fairly resembles Chilasa Papone, 

 and the female the Chilasa Onjxtpe ; the female also probably being a mimic of the 

 Euplceine, Crastia Layardi. 



TAMERA CASTOR (Plate 496, fig. 1, la, b, S, Ic, d, e, ?). 

 (Plate 497, fig. 1, la, b, ?, Var.) 



Papilio Castor, Westwood, Ann. and Mag. Kat. Hist. ix. p. 37, c? (1842) ; ifJ. Arcana Entom. ii. p. 129, 

 pi. 80, fig. 2, 2a, (J (1845). Doubleday and Hewitson, Geu. D. Lpp. i. p. 12 (1846). Gray, Catal. 

 Lep. Brit. Mus. i. p. 21 (1852). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 93 (1857). 

 Semper, Wien. Ent. Monats. vi. p. 281, pi. 19 (gynandromorpliic Yar.). Felder, Verb. Z.B. Ges. 

 Wien. 1864, pp. 320, 367. Oberthiir, EtuJ. Entom. iv. pp. 49, 114 (1879). Wood-Masoo, Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beug. 18S0, p. 146, pi. 9, fig. 1, 2, (^ ? . Westwood, Proc. Zool. So^.. Lond. 1881, 

 p. 479, pi. 44, fig. 1, 2, 3, (J. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1S8S, p. 437. Eobbe, Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Belg. 1892, p. 124. Ilaase, Untersuch. ub. Mim. p. 46 (1893). Eotbscbild, Nov. Zool. ii. 

 p. 357, S ? (1893). Frnhstorfer, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1902, p. 175. 



Papilio [Charus) Castor, Wood-Mason, Jonrii. As. Sue. Bengal, 1886, p. 375, (J ? . 



Tamera Castor, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atkinson, p. 284, (J ? (1888). S^vinboe, Trans. Eat. Soc. 

 1893, p. 315. 



Papilio {Tamei-a) Castor, de Niceville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 172, (^ ?. Watson, Journ. 

 Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 672. 



Papilio PuUux, Westwood, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 137, ? (1842); id. Arcana Entom. ii. 

 p. 129, pi. 80, fig. 1, ? (1845). Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 21 (L846). West- 

 wood, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 479, pi. 44, fig. 4, ? . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich dark bro\Yn. Forewintj with the cell-streaks 

 and outer area irrorated with minute ferruginous scales; a marginal series of very 

 small white cilial dentate-lunules, and, more rai'ely, one or two lower submarginal 

 dots. Hiiidwinij with tho lower outer-area sparsely ferruginous scaled ; an upper- 

 discal prominent broad creamy-Avhite patch composed of either four or five portions, 

 the lowest being narrow and speckled with brown scales ; sometimes a few white 

 scales are clustered within apex of the cell ; generally, three or four very small 

 upper sub-marginal white-scaled incipient lunules are present, these latter, in some, 

 being more distinctly formed ; marginal intervening cilice white. Underside paler. 



