PAPILIONIN^. Ill 



Soc. Lond. 1865, p. 756. Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 6 (ISSi). Haaae, Untersueh. lib. 



Mim. p. 37 (1893). 

 PapiUo Xenodes var. Macareus, Gray, Catal. Lep. B. M. i. p. 71 (1852). 

 Papilio (subgen. Parantieopsis) Macareus, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 



1887, p. 376. Elwes and de Niceville, ii. 1887, p. 433. 

 Para7iticoj>sis Macareus, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 315. 

 Papilio Macareus Lioneli, Pruhstorfer, Soc. Ent. 1902, p. 74 ; id. Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1902, p. 226. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside similar to the Sikkim P. Polynices, except that the 

 cell and discal markings on both wings are much narrower. Underside ochreous- 

 brown. Foreunng blackish between the lower discal streaks. Both wings with the 

 markings, as on upperside, much narrower than in Polynices. 



Female. Larger than the male. Upperside brownish-black, but with narrower 

 markings than in the male. Foreiuiiig with the inner portion of the cell-streaks 

 and the apical upper cell-spot obliterated, the upper and lower spot outside the cell 

 also obliterated, the upper four discal streaks small and short, the lower narrow. 

 Eindwing with the cell longer than in the male ; all the streaks narrow, the cell- 

 streak very widely interrupted, the discal streaks longer, the lower median streak 

 with a spot, and the submedian streak with a dentate lunule beyond the end ; the 

 submarginal upper spots and lower lunules distinctly defined ; a small cluster of 

 ochreous-yellow scales at the anal angle. Underside. Forewing with the ground- 

 colour dark ochreous-brown, blackish between the outer veins ; markings, as on the 

 upperside, bluish-white. Hindwing ochreous-brown ; all the markings, as on 

 upperside, somewhat broader. 



Expanse, c? 3 to 3|-, 9 4 inches. 



DiMOKPHic Female. — Indicus ?, Rothschild. Size of male. Upperside. 

 Ground-colour pale greyish-black. Forewing devoid of all markings except a sub- 

 marginal row of small ill-defined whitish spots. Eindwing with the apical end of 

 the white cell-streaks only present, the discal streaks, two upper submarginal spots 

 and lower lunules, as in male, but less defined. Underside. Ground-colour pale 

 dull greyish ochreous-brown ; markings, as on upperside, but paler and less defined. 

 Body with a broad sublateral whitish baud. 



Expanse, ? 3 inches. 



Habitat. — Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; Shan States. 



Mimicry. — The male is a fairly good mimic of the Limnaine butterfly, 

 Parantica Melanoides, the female more resembling the latter sex of the Euploeine 

 genus Trejjsichrois. 



Distribution. — Col. C. Swinhoe records it from the Khasia Hills (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. 1893, 315). Mr. W. Rothschild's male and female are also from the Khasia 

 Hills, his type female being the dimorphic form we describe above. Mr. de Niceville 



