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species, as he gives all the localities for JE7. linncei that Mr. Forbes gives 

 for E. V an- dev enter i. The description as a distinct species of a slight 

 variety, if it is even that in this instance, of a well-known, common^ and 

 wide-spread species is, in our opinion, very much to be deprecated. 



9. EuPLCEA {Danise^pa) ehadamanthus. 



Papilio radamanthuSj Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. i, p. 42, n. 127, male 

 (1793). 



Common in Cachar from April to August. It occurs to the eastwards 

 as far as Nepal at any rate ; it is replaced in Burma and to the south- 

 wards by the closely allied E. diocletianus. The female is much rarer 

 than the male, three specimens only having been obtained ; as a rule in 

 this genus the sexes are of about equally common occurrence . 



Mr. Wood-Mason notes that " the eversible caudal rosettes of the 

 males are finely vanilla- scented." 



10. EuPLCEA (Pademma) klugii. 

 E. Uugii, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mns. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 130, n. 258 

 (1857) ; and in Anderson's Anat. and Zool. Researches, p. 922 (1878). 



Five males 6th and 7th April, five females 5th to 7fch April, four 

 males 18th May to 10th June, four females 1st to 21st June, in the 

 station of Silchar and the forests around. 



The Indian Museum, Calcutta, also possesses specimens from Sylhet, 

 and others obtained in Burma by the Yunan Expedition, the latter 

 identified by Mr. Moore. 



The blue shot in some of the Cachar specimens is very deep and 

 brilliant, and extends in the forewing to the marginal series of dots, in 

 others it is far less deep and vivid (in which cases it is more violet than 

 blue) and less extensive, only reaching to rather less than midway 

 between the end of the cell and the submarginal series of spots ; in 

 some specimens, indeed, it is hardly more developed than in examples of 

 E. hollari, Felder, from Calcutta, and from them these latter can hardly 

 be distinguished. In some specimens the marginal series of dots on the 

 forewing is complete to the apex, in others it is obsolete towards the apex, 

 and, in two specimens taken in Upper Burma by the Yunan Expedition, 

 it is altogether absent. So with the submarginal series of spots : the 

 full complement is eight, but in some examples this number is reduced to 

 four on the apical half : the spots are also equally variable in shape and 

 colour, some are small and round, others larger and oval, while others 

 again are produced into elongated streaks : sometimes they are almost 

 entirely violet, at others they are white-centred, and at others lastly they 

 are almost entirely white. In some specimens there is no discal series of 

 spots outside the cell, in others there are as many as five, the one in the 

 seco nd median interspace being sometimes obsolete. 



