76 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



1894, 172). A male, from Bliotan, is in tlie Britisli Museum CollectioB. Mr. J. 

 Wood-Mason verifies examples in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from " Sikkim, 

 Silhet, and Cherra Punji, Ivhasia and Naga Hills " (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1880, 

 147). "Seventeen males taken at Irangmara, Cacliar, in July and August " {id. 

 I.e. 1886, 375). Col. C. Swinhoe records it from the Khasia Hills (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. 1893, 315). Capt. E. Y. Watson obtained "a single quite typical female in the 

 Upper Chindwin Hills, Burma, in April " (Journ. Bombay N. H. S. 1897, 672). 

 Col. C. H. E. Adamson " found males common on a jungle path near Shevegoo, in 

 the Bharao District, Upper Burma, in September, 1887. They, in company with 

 Pfljj. Chaon and Pu})^ Helenus, were to be found resting on damp, sandy roads under 

 lofty trees. No females were to be seen on the roads, but they could be found by 

 searching the dense undergrowth on the side of the road" (List, 1897, 48). Signer 

 L. Fea obtained two females at Bhamo, in October. Specimens of both sexes, 

 labelled " Mungpha, Burma, from Mr. W. S. Atkinson," are in the British Museum 

 Collection. 



MiMiCET. — The normal female of this species is probably a mimic of tlie 

 Euploeine butterflies Tirumala Limniace or Caduga melaneus, and also bears a fair 

 resemblance to the Papilionine Chilasa dissimilis. 



TAMERA MEHALA (Plate 498, fig. 1, la, J, lb, c, $). 



Papilio Meltala, Grose-Smith, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 150; Z(Z. Ehop. Exotica, i. Pap. 



pi. 2, fig. 1, cT,2 ? (1888). 

 Papilio Castor, subsp. Meltala, Eotbschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 358, ^ ? (1895). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich dark brown. Forewlng with the cell-streaks and 

 outer area numerously irrorated with minute ferruginous scales ; a minute white 

 spot at lower end of the cell, a marginal row of white small dentate cilial spots, and 

 very rarely also a submarginal lower row of minute spots. Hindwing with tbe cell 

 and lower basal area — and sometimes also the lower outer area — irrorated with 

 ferruginous scales, these scales in the outer area being occasionally greyish ; across 

 the disc is a prominent creamy -white broad band, its portions gradually decreasing 

 posteriorly, the upper portion being also small, in some specimens the portions are 

 of more uniform length, while in others the lower three portions are much the 

 smallest, and the two lowest tinged with pale ochreous, or, sometimes, obsolescent, 

 being feebly white-scaled ; beyond is an upper submarginal row of three or four 

 feebly defined small white-scaled lunules, or a complete row of distinct white lunules, 

 and then a marginal row of slender cilial lunules. Underside paler. Foreicing with 

 the cell-streaks and apical area ferruginous-scaled ; a prominent white small cell 

 spot, marginal dentate cilial spots, and lower submarginal spots. Hindicing with 



