88 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



Female. Upperside paler umber-brown, darkest basally. Foreicinr/ with small 

 bat not prominently defined normal submarginal and marginal whitisli-scaled spots, 

 of which the lower five of the snbraarginal sei-ies, in one specimen, are obliterated by 

 dark scales, Hindwlnfj with the outer markings less defined than in the male. 

 Underside. Forewhuj similar to the upperside. Eindwing similar to the male. 



Expanse, c? 4 to 41, ? 4|- inches. 



PIabitat. — Lower Burma ; Upper Tenasserim ; Siam ; Annam. 



DisTBiBUTiON. — "We possess specimens of this race from Rangoon and Magaree, 

 Pegu ; and from Thoungyeen Valley, Upper Tenasserim, taken in April by Col. C. T. 

 Bine-ham. Mr. W. Rothschild has males from Moulmein and Tenasserim. A male 



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is in Mr. P. Crowley's Collection, from Yunzaleen Valley, Upper Tenasserim, taken 

 in March. 



CHILASA PAPONE ((Plate 505, fig. 1, la, ^, lb, 9). 



Papilio Papone, Westwood, Trans. Eat. Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 94, pi. 3, fig. 2, ^ . Marshall, Jouin. As. 



Soc. Bengal, 1882, p. 4-3. 

 Papilio Clytia, aber. Papone^ Rothscliild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 367 (1895). Fruhstorfer, Berl. Eat. Zeit. 



1902, p. 180. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich purpurescent-black, flushed with blue in certain 

 lights. Forewing immaculate, or, in some specimens, with faint traces of very small 

 whitish-scaled normally-positioned submarginal and marginal spots. Eindwing with 

 five rather short discal sagittate whitish streaks varying in width, which are more or 

 less speckled with dark scales ; a submarginal row of narrow white lunules, and 

 generally a marginal row of slender ochi^eous lunules ; in some specimens a sixth or 

 upper-discal sagittate streak is feebly defined. Underside rich red-brown. 

 Forewing rich dark red-brown, purplish tinted in some lights ; cell and outer 

 interspaces more or less black streaked and blue flushed. Eiudu/ing with the discal 

 sagittate marks and submarginal lunules as above, and a marginal row of moderately- 

 broad ochreous spots. 



Female. Upper and underside similar to the male. 



Expanse, c? ? 3i- to 4^ inches. 



Habitat. — Lower Burma; Upper Tenasserim ; Shan States ; Siam; Annam. 



Distribution. — In the British Museum Collection are males of this form from 

 the Thoungyeen Valley, Upper Tenasserim, taken in November by Col. C. T. Bingham, 

 and a female labelled Burma. In Mr. W. Rothschild's Collection is a male from 

 the Yunzaleen Valley, Upper Tenasserim, taken in March by Col. Bingham. A 

 female from Tavoy, taken in February, is in Mr. P. Crowley's Collection. We 

 possess a male from the Upper Mekong, Shan States, Siam, taken by Mr. R. 

 Roberts, C.E. 



