CLEROME. 183 



Key to the forms of Clerome. 



a. Upperside of wings uniform ochraceous. 



a'. Underside of wings with ground-colour 



uniform, not paler towards apex of fore 



wing C. arcesilaus, p. 183. 



V . Underside of wings with ground-colour not 



uniform, distinctly paler on terminal half 



of fore wing C. assama S > P- 184. 



b. Upperside not uniform. Fore wing with a 



broad, oblique, preapical bright ochraceous 



band. 



a'. Upperside : ground-colour maroon C. eumeus, p. 183. 



b'. Upperside : ground - colour ochraceous 



brown C. assama $ , p. 184. 



215. Clerome arcesilaus, Fabr. (Papilio) Mant. Ins. ii, 1787, p. 28 ; 

 M. fy de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 313; Moore, Lep. hid. ii, 

 1893-96, p. 207, pi. 162, figs. 1, 1 a-\ c, J $ . 



d 2 • Upperside ochraceous, uniform in S ; apex of fore wing 

 and termen in fore and hind wings in 2 slightly darker. Under- 

 side slightly ochraceous brown ; subbasal and discal narrow dark 

 fasciae crossing both fore and hind wing, strongly curved on the 

 latter ; followed by a postdiscal line of minute yellow spots, six 

 on the fore, seven on the hind wing, on the latter posteriorly 

 abruptly curved ; lastly, a subterminal dark sinuous line. Antenna?, 

 head, thorax and abdomen concolorous with the upperside of the 

 wings. 



Exp. c? 2 72-82 mm. (2-85-3-23"). 



Hab. The hills of Assam, Burma and Tenasserim, extending to 

 Siam and the Malav Peninsula. 



216. Clerome eumeus, Drury (Papilio), 111. JExot. Ent. i, 1773, pi. 2, 

 fig. 3; Cramer (Papilio), Pap : Exot. ii, 1777, pi. 183, figs. C, B'. 

 Clerome aerope, Leech, Ent. xxiii, 1890, p. 31 ; id. Butt. China, 

 1892, p. 112, pi. 1, fig. 4 <5. 



S 2 - Upperside : fore wing maroon, with a very broad, oblique, 

 preapical, somewhat diffuse, bright ochraceous band extending 

 from costa to termen and along latter almost to the tornus ; this 

 band broader in the $ than in the d 1 . Hind wing brown, 

 shading to dark maroon anteriorly. Underside maroon-brown; 

 apex of fore wing broadly paler, dorsal margin of same dull brown ; 

 subbasal, discal and postdiscal dark, sinuous, continuous lines 

 crossing both wings ; between the latter two a series of prominent 

 round white spots, five or six on the fore wing (straight in tf , 

 slightly incurved in 5 ), six or seven on the hind wing, arched in 

 both sexes. Antenna?, head, thorax and abdomen brown. 



Exp. S 2 70-86 mm. (2-8-3-37"). 



Hab. Recorded within our limits from the Southern Shan 

 States, Upper Burma ; China ; Borneo, 



