106 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Genus MENAMOPSIS. 



Papilio (subgen. Menamopsis) de ]!ficeville, Jouni. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1887, p. 433. 

 Fapilio (sect, 37, pt.), Felder, Verb. Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, p. 308. 

 Papilio (group 20, pt.), Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 359 (1895). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing elongated triangular ; costa very slightly arched, 

 ajjes convex, exterior margin oblique, posterior angle rounded ; cell long and broad ; 

 first and second subcostal branches free. Hindwing triangular ; apex obtusely 

 pointed, exterior margin somewhat convex and almost even ; cell long and rather 

 broad. 



Body rather long ; antennae with a slender club. 



Type. — M. Tavoyanus. 



MiMiCKT. — The sjjecies of this genus are mimics of the Euploeine butterflies of 

 the genus Menamia and Penoa. 



MENAMOPSIS SLATERI (Plate 513, fig. 1, la, b, S, Ic, d, ? ). 



Papilio Slaten-i, Hewitson, Bxot. Batt. ii. Pap. text, pi. 4 (1859). Westwood, Proc. Eat. Soc. Lond. 

 1864, p. 10. Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1865, p. 756. Oberthiir, Btud. Eut. iv. p. 100 

 (1879). Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 6 (1884). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, 

 p. 429, ^ 9. Haase, Untersuch. uH. Mim. p. 47 (1893). Eothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 362 

 (1895). 



Isamiopsis Slateri, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 314. 



Papilio (^Menamopsis) Slateri, de Niceville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 173. 



Fapilio Slateri Slateri, et aber. Jaintinus, Fruhstorfer, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1902, p;i. 177, 178. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Foreioing rich dark purpurescent blue-black, the 

 outer margin in some specimens being blackish browu ; a violet-blue scaled short 

 streak within upper end of the cell and sometimes eitlier one or two narrow streaks 

 below it, followed by a discal curved series of nine similar coloured elongated 

 streaks with truncate outer ends, each increasing in length, from near the base of 

 third subcostal interspace to the submedian interspace, in which latter space there 

 are two, both more slender than the others, and the lowest is sometimes partly 

 obsolescent, or obsolete. Hindwing purpurescent ochreous-browu, the basal area 

 within and below the cell and the outer marginal border being somewhat darker 

 brown ; with a prominent ochreous-yellow spot inwardly-bordered with black at 

 the anal angle. In some siDeciraens a submarginally-disposed series of short whitish- 

 scaled streaks are more or less faintly visible in pairs between the veins. Underside. 

 Both wings uniformly ochreous-brown. Forewing with more or less faintly-defined 

 sparsely whitish-scaled traces of the cell and discal streaks, disposed as on upper- 

 side. Hindwing unmarked, except by a white basal spot and the anal ochreous- 



