PAPILIONINM. lis 



PAEANTICOPSIS XENOCLES (Plate 516, fig. 2, $, 2a, ?). 



Fajyilio Xenoeles, Doubleday, in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 74 (1842). Westwood, Arcana Ent. ii. p. 127, 



pi. 79, fig. 2, S (1845). Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 20, pi. la, fig. 2 S (1846). 



Gray, Catal. Lep. B. M. i. p. 71 (1852). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 90 (1857). 



Felder, Verb. Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, pp. 308, 354. Oberthiir, Etud. Ent. iv. p. 100 (1879). 



Staudinger, Exot. Schmetfc. i. p. 6, pi. 3, ^ (1884). Butler, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1885, 



p. 384. Eruhstorfcr, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1902, p. 229. 

 Papilio (Paranticopsis) Xenoeles, Wood-Mason and de Nicevilie, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1887, 



p. 376. 

 Paranticopsis Xenoeles, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 315. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black ; cilia very slenderly alternated with white. 

 Foreiuincj with a small greyish-white spot at base of the costa, four elongated 

 upwardly-oblique cell-streaks, and a spot between the upper pair at lower end of 

 the cell, four, or sometimes only three rounded spots — the lowest being absent — 

 outside end of the cell, followed by a discal series of broad streaks with indented 

 outer ends, the upper five being short, the others elongated, that between the lower 

 median and submedian divided by a black curved line ; beyond is a submarginal row 

 of nine rounded spots. Hindwing with greyish-white cell area, elongated broad 

 discal streaks, a submarginal row of two upper irregularly-oval spots and four lower 

 dentate-lunules, and a large quadrate chrome-yellow anal spot ; the abdominal 

 margin densely clothed with ochreous- white hairs, the fold when open displaying a 

 lengthened pale ochreous scent-organ. Underside dull ochreous-brown ; markings 

 as on the upperside, but less sharply defined. TJiorax, head, antenna3, and legs black ; 

 front of thorax, head, and palpi white spotted ; base of tliorax laterally clothed with 

 fine grey silky hairs ; abdomen dull black, with a broad lateral and sublateral white 

 longitudinal band; fore femora and tibiiB whitish beneath. 



Female. Upperside. Ground-colour either dark ochreous-brown or blackish- 

 brown, with the cell and discal streaks on both wings narrower. Forewing with the 

 costa and outer area blacker ; the inner portions of the cell-streaks obliterated, the 

 rounded spots outside end of the cell also more or less obliterated, the discal streaks 

 .much narrower and shorter, the upper two absent, the submarginal spots somewhat 

 smaller. Hindwing with the cell and discal streaks narrower, the cell streak and 

 that in the lower median interspace being broadly broken near the end, the sub- 

 marginal spots all prominent, the anal spot smaller and paler yellow. Underside. 

 Foreiving dull, or dark ochreous-brown ; markings as on the upperside, the lower 

 submarginal spots being somewhat larger. Hindwing dull, or brighter, ochreous- 

 brown, with the markings broader than on upperside. 



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



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