1897.] Indo- and Austro-Malayan Regions. 567 



Expanse : d 1 , 5*1 to 5*5 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings black. Foreioing a 

 little transparent, somewhat sparsely sprinkled throughout (except 

 narrowly along the outer margin) with rich deep green scales which are 

 highly deciduous and easily removed ; the usual three longitudinal 

 deep black streaks in the discoidal cell, and similar streaks on the disc 

 between the veins ; the outer two-thirds of the submedian nervure, the 

 first and second median nervules, and a similar streak in the sub- 

 median interspace bearing feather-like lengthened scales which are 

 certainly a male secondary sexual character. Hindwing with the an- 

 terior half rich dark purple sprinkled as in the fore wing with 

 green scales ; the outer half of the wing also similarly but more 

 thickly sprinkled ; an anal deep red ocellus with a large black 

 centre in the submedian interspace, bearing in the middle of the 

 red portion anteriorly an obscure violet line ; an exactly similar 

 lunule on the margin in the first median interspace ; and traces of 

 similar lunules in the second median and discoidal interspaces. Under- 

 side, forewing with the base black, the outer two-thirds whitish, 

 becoming black again narrowly on the outer margin and widely at the 

 apex; four prominent black streaks in the cell, with similar streaks 

 between the veins on the disc. Hindwing deep black, the base and 

 abdominal margin sparsely sprinkled with dull green scales ; a promi- 

 nent complete series of seven submarginal deep red lunules, each 

 bearing anteriorly a violet line, the two anal ones developed into ocelli 

 with large round black centres. Cilia black, but the internervular inci- 

 sions white. Head, thorax and body above black, sprinkled with green. 



Superficially resembling P. {P anger anopsis) elephenor, Doubleday, 

 of which I possess specimens from Jorehat and Cachar in the Assam 

 province, and from Manipur, from which P. doddsi differs in the hind- 

 wing being one-third broader, the wing- membrane being produced into 

 a very short and blunt tail-like projection at the termination of the 

 second median nervule, in P. elephenor the hindwing is quadridentate ; 

 on the underside of the hindwing in having a complete series of 

 submarginal red lunules, in P. elephenor the lunule in the second median 

 interspace is entirely absent (vide Westwood's figure in Cab. Or. Ent., 

 pi. xxxi, fig. 2*, male) or obsolete : and, most important of all, P. elephe- 

 nor has the palpi, the orbits and the head beneath dark ochreous, and 

 the abdomen at the base beneath and broadly along each side paler 

 ochreous, while all these parts in P. doddsi are black. P. doddsi is 

 almost precisely similar to P. dialis, Leech, from Western China, Butt. 

 China, p. 532, pi. xxxii, fig. 4, male (1894), but that species has a long 

 spatulate tail which in P. doddsi is reduced to a mere tooth. Though 

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