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tlie entire basal and lower area ferruginous-scaled, the discal band whiter and 

 narrower than on upperside, the portions being o£ more uniform length ; sub- 

 marginal lunules prominent and broad, the cilial lunules distinct. BoAij dark brown ; 

 front of thorax, collar, and palpi black, spotted with white ; abdomen with a lateral, 

 sublateral, and ventral row of white spots ; antennge and legs black ; femora white 

 beneath. 



Female. Upperside dark ochreous-brown. Foretving darkest basally; cell- 

 streaks and veins dark brown ; a prominent white large spot at lower end of the 

 cell, a submarginal excurved row of large white posteriorly-decreasing conical spots, 

 and a marginal row of small dentate cilial spots. Hindwing with a discal transverse 

 row of sullied-grey lanceolate spots, the upper one short and irregular shaped, the 

 next two large and broad, the othei's narrower and decreasing in size ; beyond is a 

 submarginal series of prominent white broad dentate lunules, of which the two upper 

 are broadest and the anal one a straight bar ; cilial lunules white and slender. 

 Underside similar to upperside. Foreiuing with larger white spot at lower end of 

 the cell, large submarginal spots and small marginal cilial spots. Hindwing with 

 discal grey lanceolate spots, submarginal large white lunules, and marginal slender 

 lunules, as on upperside. 



Expanse, cJ 4 to 4f , ? 5 inches. 



Habitat.— Lower Burma ; Upper Tenasserim. 



Distribution. — We possess a male from Palon, Pegu, taken in August. Mr. H. 

 Grose-Smith's types are from Tounghoo. He has also since obtained males from the 

 Tounghoo Hills, taken by Mr. J. A. Hauxwell in March. 



MiMiCRT. — The female of this species has a fair resemblance to the Papilionine, 

 Chilasa Owpape, 



Our illustrations on Plate 498 are taken from the type specimens in Mr. H. 

 Grose- Smith's Collection. 



TAMERA MAHALEVA (Plate 499, fig. 1, la, S, lb, c, ?). 



Papilio Mahadeva, yLooTS, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 840, pi. 51, fig. 1, cJ. Wood-Mason, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1880, p. 144. Eothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 35y (1895). Fruhstorfer, 

 Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1902, p. 176. 



Papilio (Charus) Maliadtva, Elwes and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1887, p. 437, cj ? . 



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

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

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

 in some specimens also a lower submarginal series of three or four similar small 

 dentate spots are present. Hindtcing with the cell and lower outer area irrorated with 



