NYMPHALIN^E. (Cmu,, Asaryxiy.i.) 227 



Distribution. — '•' It is fairl}' coraraou at Shillong in June. Specimens are in the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta, from Clierrapuuji, Sibsagar, and others from Pousee in 

 Upper Burma, also taken in March by Dr. J. Anderson during the Yunan Expedi- 

 tion " (de Niccville, I.e. 132). " Abounds in the northern plateau of the Khasias 

 from May to August. Taken at Bhamo by Dr. Anderson" (W. S. Atkinson, 

 Notes). 



DRYAS MAJA. 



Papilio Maja, Cramer. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 2r), fig. U, C, ? (1775). 



Papilio Pandora, Denis and ScliifF, Wien. Verz. p. 17G (1770). Hiibner, Exot. Schmett. i. fig'. 71, 72 



(1793), id. fig. 606-7 (1823). 

 Argijnnis Pandora, de Niccville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 133 (188G). 

 Papilio Cynara, Eabr. Gen. Ins. p. 266 (1770). 



Im.vgg, — Male. Upperside greenish-fulvou.-. Fnrewiiig with two black bars 

 crossing the cell near the middle, another broader pair at its end, with an oblique 

 black line joining them ; a discal much angled band, a diffused subcostal spot, a series 

 of seven rounded spots, two submarginal series of oval spots, the outer series 

 touching each other on the interspaces ; the ttvo lower median veinlets for a portion 

 of their length clothed with raided modified t<cale8. Eiiidirivg more greenish; a 

 black duplex discocellular line, a discal irregular somewhat lunulated line from the 

 costal veinlet to the lower median veinlet, a series of five round spots beyond, a 

 series of seven submarginal spots, the three anterior rounded, the rest lunular, a 

 marginal series of joined lunules. Underside, Forcwinr/ rosy-red ; the costa, apex 

 broadly and outer margin decreasingly pale yellow ; the apical spots, as on upper 

 side, greenish ; other markings as above, but more prominent. Uindwing deep 

 green ; the costal lobe, a spot within from base of precostal along the costal veinlet, 

 a cm^ved spot from the costal veinlet to the point where the first subcostal veinlet is 

 given off, inwardly defined with black, a similar spot towards the cud of the cell — 

 all these spots often more or less wanting ; a discal irregular somewhat narrow 

 band, inwardly defined with black towards the costa, a series of five minute spots 

 placed on round diffused fulvous patches, and a submarginal narrow line, all 

 silvery. 



Female. Upperside darker than in male, all the markings more prominent. 

 Underside also with the markings more prominent, especially the silvery ones on the 

 hindwing. Cilia fulvous. 



Expanse, <S 2^^^ to o, ? 3i\ inches. 



Habitat. — S.E.Germany; S.Europe; Western Asia ; Gilgit. 



DiSTKiBUTiON. — Mr. L. de Niceville records " a single male, received from Mr. 

 J. F. Duthie, taken by a native botanical collector attached to Colonel Lockhart's 



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