112 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



also records this species from the Khasias (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1897, 5G8). 

 Col. C. H. E. Adamson remarks "males are common on beds of streams and damp 

 places in the Tenassei'im Province, in February and March, but I have not met with 

 it in Upper Burma" (List, 1897, 49). We possess males from the Thoungyeen 

 forests, Tenasserim, taken in February by Col. C. T. Bingham. Mr. H. J. Elwes 

 records " many males from Ponsekai and the Hills on the Siamese frontier " (Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. 1887, 433). Males, from Bankasoon and Malawoon, Tenasserim, 

 taken by Mr. H. 0. Hume, are in Mr. F. Goodman's Collection, and males, from 

 Muong Gnow, Shan States, are in Mr. W. Rothschild's Collection. 



Of our illustrations on Plate 515, figs. 2, 2a are from male and female Kliasia 

 specimens, and fig. 2b from the Khasia type ? described by Mr. Rothschild. 



PARANTICOPSIS PHRONTIS (Plate 516, fig. 1, S, la, ?). 



Fapilio {Parantieopsis) Phroniis, de Niceville, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1897, p. 568, ^ ? . 

 Papilio Xenodes, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 430, ^ ? . 

 Papilio {Parantieopsis) Xenoclcs, de Niceville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 173. 



Papilio Xenodes Phrontis, f. temp. Xenocrates, Frulistorfer, Soc. Ent. 1901, p. 145 ; id. Berl. Eat. 

 Zeit. 1902, p. 229. 



Imago. — Upperside similar to tlie same sex of typical P. Xenodes, except that 

 on the h indwing the lower submarginal spots are less distinctly dentated, these latter 

 generally being small and rounded, the lower pair more or less obliterated, and the 

 large yellow anal spot spreading more or less into the lower median interspace. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing witli the ground-colour, and the markings, 

 entire, as in the male. Hindiving witli the ground-colour either darker or of a more 

 reddish chestnut tint, the basal markings somewhat broader, tlie cell-area usually 

 entire, but sometimes slenderly divided ; the lower submarginal spots are either 

 lunularly dentate, or small and rounded, or obsolescent, the anal chrome-yellow spot 

 very large and spread out into the lower median interspace. 



Expanse, <? 4 to 4|-, ? 4 to 4| inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim; Bhotan. 



DisTEiBDTiON. — Mr. L. de Niceville records his types from " Sikkim and Bhotan " 

 (I.e. 568). Mr. H. J. Elwes says it is " a common species in the lower valleys of 

 Sikkim, up to 3,000 feet elevation, from April to November. Females are rare " 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 430). Mr. L. de Niceville writes, " flies in Sikkim from April 

 to November, from the level of the Terai up to about 3,000 feet. The males are 

 fairly common, the females very rare " (Sikkim Gaz. 94, 173). Mr. G. C. Dudgeon 

 obtained it in Bhotan, in May. 



Our illustrations on Plate 516, figs. 1, la, are from Sikkim male and female. 



