25-^ Lionel de Niceville — On some New Indian ^Butterflies. [No. 3, 



Family PAPILIONID^. 



Subfamily Papilionin^. 

 7. Papilio paphus, n. sp., PI. XI, Fig. 6, d. 



Description. Male. Intermediate between P. glycerion^ Gray, and 

 P. tamerlanusj Oberthiir. Differs from the former in being larger, the 

 forewing less profasely marked with black on the outer margin, both 

 above and below, the hindwing having the disc crossed by a narrow black 

 line which is joined posteriorly to a continuous subbasal line, the wing 

 membrane between the discoidal nervule and the anal angle much 

 broader. On the underside of the hindwing there is in P. pajpTius a series 

 of six elongated streaks of the ground-colour divided by the nervules, 

 from the costal nervure to the first median nervule outside the cell, these 

 streaks being much shorter in P. glycerion, the ones in the costal, subcostal, 

 and second median interspaces of that species being divided in the middle 

 by a black bar into two spots, the anterior one in each instance being 

 yellow, in P.jpa^lius they are undivided and concolourous with the ground 

 throughout. It differs from P. tamerlanus on the upperside (no figure is 

 given of the underside of that species nor any detailed description) in 

 having the two black bands at the end of the cell of the forewing parallel 

 and conjoined in the middle as in P. glycerion, the black bands of the 

 hindwing much less prominent. It is also a smaller insect, but agrees 

 with it in the rounded apex of the forewing, and the width of the wing- 

 membiane at the anal angle of the hindwing. 



Expanse: 6', 3 inches. 



Hab. — Sikkim. 



P. glycerion has a very wide range, occurring as far west as Simla 

 at any rate, probably throughout the Himalayas eastwards, and in China. 

 P. tamerlanus was described from Moupin, Western China, P. paphus is 

 known to occur as yet only in Sikkim, specimens of it (including the 

 type) are in Mr. Otto Moller's collection, also in that of Mr. A. V. 

 Knyvett. For comparison, I have figured (fig. 5, ^ ) the underside of a 

 specimen of P. glycerion from Sikkim. 



Family HESPERIID^. 

 8. Halpe GUPTA, n. sp., PI. XI, Fig. 1, (f. 



Description. Male. Upperside, both wings dark brown. Fore- 

 wing with two small spots in the cell placed obliquely one above the 

 other, obsolete in one specimen, two or three conjoined subapical minute 

 spots, two on the disc divided by the second median nervule. Hindwing 

 with some long ochreous hairs in the middle of the disc. Underside, 



