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yellow spot ; generally there is also jDresent a submarginal row of more or less faintly- 

 defined white-scaled streaks in jDairs between the veins. Body black ; thorax and 

 head pale blue spotted ; abdomen with a subdorsal, two lateral, and a ventral row 

 of white spots; antennas and legs black. 



Female. Upperside similar to the male, except that on the /oren.smp' the discal 

 streaks are wider, a few blue scales also longitudinally disposed below the sub- 

 raedian vein, and there are three pale-blue scaled short longitudinal sti'eaks within 

 middle of the cell, and the spots at its apex more prominent. Hiudwing similar to 

 the male. Underside darker brown than in the male ; markings similar. 



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



Habitat — Assam ; Sikkim. 



Distribution. — Specimens have been received by Mr. Ernest Swinhoe from the 

 Khasia and Jaintia Hills, Assam. Mr. W. Rothschild has examples from Cherra 

 Punji, Assam. Mr. H. J. Elwes says "this is a very rare species in Sikkim. It 

 seems to occur in the outer hills at a very low elevation, and the few specimens 

 Mr, 0. Moller has procured were taken at Sivoke in May " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 188S, 429). 

 Mr. L. de Niceville records it as being " common at Sivoke, and a single-brooded 

 species, which flies, in April and May, in the low outer valleys only " (Sikkim Gaz. 

 1894, 173). A specimen from Bhotan, taken in September by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, 

 is in the British Museum Collection. 



MENAMOPSIS TAVOYANUS (Plate 514, fig. 1, la, b, c, d, S)- 



Papilio Tavoi/anus, Butler, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (iSTov. 1882), p. 373 (J. 



Papilio (snbgen. Menamopsis) Tavoi/anus, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1887, p. 433, J'. 



Papilio Slateri, subsp. Tavoyanus, Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 363, (J (1895). Fruhstorfer, Berl. 



Ent. Zeit. 1902, p. 177, S- 

 Papilio Clara, Marshall, Joviin. As. Soc. Beng. (Dec. 1882), p. 42, pi. 4, fig. 5, (^ . 

 Papilio Slateri, f, geogr. marginata, Oberthiir, Etud. Eut. xvii. p. 3, pi. 4, fig. 35, ^J (1803). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. i^^oremwp' either of the same rich dark purpurescent 

 blue-black, with the cell and discal pale blue streaks almost as prominent as in 

 typical Slateri, or, more generally, the black colour is less intense and is restricted 

 to the basal three-fourths, the outer margin of the wing being dark brown, the 

 discal blue streaks shorter and less defined, or these streaks are more or less 

 obsolescent ; in some specimens this wing is of a uniform dark ochreous-brown with 

 faintly defined blackish streaks at end of the cell and basally within the discal 

 interspaces, these dark streaks being very slightly speckled with blue scales. 

 Hindwing with a submarginal prominent row of white streaks in pairs between the 

 veins, these streaks varying in length in certain specimens from about one-tenth to 

 nearly three-tenths of an inch ; in some specimens the outer margin occasionally 



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