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Mule. Creamy white. Primaries are blackish at tho base and narrowly along the costa : a black 

 or oblong spot in the discoidal cell, a curved one at end of the cell, and two, frequently united 

 and sometimes with red centres, beyond the end of the cell ; submarginal band comjjosed of 

 black lunules ; marginal band greyish black ; a black spot about the middle of the submedian 

 interspace. Secondaries have three red spots encircled with black, the first is at the base, 

 the second just below middle of the costa, and the third rather beyond the centre of the wing ; 

 tho abdominal third of the wing is black, its outer edge deeply indented ; submarginal band 

 composed of black lunules. AVings of the ground-colour, chequered with black at the 

 extremities of the ncrviiles, wliere they are preceded by linear spots on the primaries, and 

 roundish ones on tlu> secondaries. Under surface of primaries rather glossy ; all the spots as 

 above, but, with the exception of those of discoidal cell, obscured: secondaries have the base 

 blackish and four whitish-centred red spots forming a subbasal band, outwardly edged with 

 black ; there is a pale red spot near costa outlined in black, a similar one beyond tho centre 

 of the wing, and two others above anal angle (some specimens have a smaller pale red spot 

 between the anal pair and that beyond centre of the wing) ; submarginal band composed of 

 black lunules ; fringes and spots on margins as above. 



Female. Similar to the male, but the wings are sometimes slightly powdered with black ; sub- 

 marginal lunules are edged internally with greyish black, and the greyish-black marginal 

 band is broader. 



The foregoing description is made from specimens in my collection which 

 agree in all important characters with Oberthiir's figure of P. ejJajjhus, also 

 with F. jacquemonti, Gray, and VA?iu.c\mxd\ jacquemonti, fig. 3. 



Var. poeta, Oberthiir. " Poeta est beaucoup plus obscur ; les parties uoiratres sont plus etendues 

 et les ailes superieures, a part les parties blanches de I'espace cellulaire, sont, dans certains 

 exemplaires, presqu'entiei'cment couvertes par iin semis d'atomes noirs. Le fond des ailes 

 dans poeta est un pen jaunatre comme chez mercuHus. Ejiaphus-cachemiriensis autre forme, 

 sans doute issue de la meme souehe originelle, reste generalement d'un blanc assez pur et 

 assez eclatant. 



" Dans ^octe, les antenncs sont, comme chez epaphus, annelces de blanc avec la massue noire ; lo 

 corps est tres velu ; les poils sont blanchatres, tres longs et recouvrent la base des ailes et le 

 bord anal des inferieures ; les taches rouges sont generalement tres developpees, mais variant 

 comme nombre de 1 a 3 aux ailes superieures. La tache rouge prcs du bord costal persiste 

 dans tous les exemplaires que j'ai sous les yeux. 



" Aux ailes inferieures, la tache rouge basilaire existe parfois comme chez epapyJms type on est 

 absente comme chez epajilms-cacliennriensis. La frange est tres entrecoupee de blanc et de 

 noir ; mais, aux ailes inferieures, il y a tendance a ce que lo noir marginal soit retrcci et a 

 ce que la frange soit lilanche sauf an point de contact de la nervure. 



"La tache rouge mediane de I'aile infe'rieurc est quelquefois pupillee de blanc. Thibet." 

 (Oherihiu; Blvd. xvi.) 



Mr. Pratt met with a single example of this species at a great elevation in 

 the neighbourhood of Ta-chien-lu, and I received a long series of specimens 

 which were taken by a native collector on the high plateau near the Thibetan 



