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laxly raised scales below tlie cell : hindwing less produced liindward ; anal lobe sliort 

 and angular ; second subcostal emitted at one-third from tlie base ; discocellulars 

 very oblique ; antennse more slender. 

 Type^ P. Chromus. 



PAEATA CHROMUS (Plate 65, Fig. 1, a, V). 



Papilio Chrnmus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 284, fio;. E, $ (1782). 

 Goniloha Chromus, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. Lond. 1865, p. 777. 



Upperside dark vinaceous olive-brown, base of wings olive-green. Male : fore- 

 wing with suffused blackish subbasal patch traversed by an oblique curved black glan- 

 dular streak. Cilia greyish-brown. Head and thorax olive-brown ; abdomen brown. 

 Underside purpHsh-brown : forewing with blackish subbasal patch, pale posterior 

 border, and apex indistinctly speckled with blue-grey scales : hindwing with a narrow 

 transverse discal bluish-white band broken by a large blackish patch on anal lobe, 

 exterior to which the cilia has a short white line. Third joint of palpi and legs above 

 brown ; palpi and thorax beneath dull yellow. Female paler brown : forewing 

 with two yellowish semi-transparent discal angular spots, and a very small similar 

 spot before the apex. 



Expanse If to 2 inches. 



" Widely distributed. Plains and hills up to 6000 feet ; during S.W. monsoon 

 chiefly. Quick flier from bush to bush. Settles often and is not difiicult to catch " 

 ( Hutchison) . 



PAEATA ALEXIS (Plate 65, Fig. 2, a, b). 



Papilio Alexis, Fabritius, Syst. Eat. p. 533 (1775); Spec. Ins. p. 134; Mant. Ins. p. 87; Ent. Syst. 



iii. p. 336; Jones' leones, fig. . 

 Hesperia Alexis, Butler, Catal. Fabiician Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 269, pi. 3, fig. \, $. 



Upperside dark vinaceous olive-brown, base of both wings olive-green. Male: 

 forewing with a sufi^used blackish subbasal patch traversed by a curved oblique 

 black glandular streak. Underside vinous-brown ; costal border of forewing and 

 basal area of hindwing suff'used with purplish - blue : hindwing with a broad 

 well-defined transverse white band broken above large blackish anal lobe-spot. 

 Female : forewing with two small semi-transparent yellowish discal angular spots. 

 Underside as in male, the forewing also showing the discal spots and a whitish streak 

 along posterior margin. 



Expanse 1-| to if inches. 



Smaller than P. G/iromus, with broader and prominently marked band on 

 underside of hindwing. 



"Kandy" (Wade). 



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