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THE RAVINDRA BUTTERFLY. 
Papilio Ravindra. 
PLATE XAIlIt. 
Mijena Ravindra, Horsfield’s Illus. Lep. Inst. Mus. East 
India Company, p. 117. pl. 1, fig 11, 11. 
Tue superior wings are brown above, being more 
saturated in the male; in which the lower wings 
are of a pulverulent glossy hue, changing by the 
play of light to sea green, deepening towards the 
lower margin ; the latter with a snow white fringe, 
extending to the paler inner margin. In the female 
these wings are nearly all brown, having only a 
few diffuse bluish crescent-shaped spots; the su- 
perior wings are grayish brown beneath, with a 
grayish white anal area ; the lower wings are white, 
and marked on the base and dise with oblong black 
spots. The body is brown above, and hoary under- 
neath; the antenne are brown, with a ferruginous 
tip, delicately crenulated with white along the 
lateral groove; the legs are white, having distant 
black bands on the tibiae, and numerous bands on 
the tarsi; the caudate wings white, with a medial 
black striga. 
The Rayindra butterfly inhabits India. 
