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Wings above dark fuscous; anterior wings with a large oblong streak in lower portion of cell, 

 the greater portion of the space between the third median nervnle and the submedian nervure and a streak- 

 on inner margin bright shining violet-blue ; posterior wings with the lower portion of cell and the outer 

 cellular area of the same colour; a narrow greyish submarginal line from second median nervnle to anal 

 angle, where there h a black spot inwardly containing some greenish metallic scales ; tail-like appendages 

 dark fuscous, with their apices and their margins a little beyond base greyish. Wings beneath olivaceous- 

 brown, both wings with two dark disco-cellular lines at end of cell ; anterior wings with a very dark wavud 

 line crossing outer disk, commencing at bifurcation of third and fourth subcostal nervules and terminating 

 near third median nervule ; a similar line on posterior wings, commencing near costa, strongly fractured 

 at upper subcostal nervule, and continued to near abdominal margin ; three black marginal spots, inwardly 

 and broadly margined with resplendent metallic- green, the first small and transverse between the first and 

 second median iktvuIcs, the second and third spots largest) between which, and separated toy the third 

 median nervule and submedian nervure, is a large patch of greyish scales also inwardly margined with the 

 resplendent metallic-green, greyish marginal line as above near anal angle. 



Exp. wings,* 88 millim. 



Had. — Malay Peninsula ; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.) ; Singapore {coll. Godfery). — Sumatra (coll. 

 Hewits.)* — Borneo (Drace). 



Genus BINDAHAKA, 



Bimlahara, Moore, Lep. Geyl. vol. i. p. Ill (lSSlf. 



Anterior wings subtri angular, the costal margin arched and slightly convex, the outer margin almost 

 straight in the male and moderately convex in the female, the inner margin nearly straight. Costal 

 nervure extending a little beyond end of cell ; first subcostal nervule emitted a little beyond middle of cell, 

 second about midway between bases of first and third, the third from end of cell, third and fourth 

 bifurcating at about two-thirds the length of third ; disco- cellular nervules suberect ; first and second 

 median nervules with an apparently common origin just before the end of cell, third median nervule 

 emitted at about one-third before end of cell. Posterior wings elongately subovate, the costal margin 

 obliquely convex, the posterior margin obliquely convex and obsoletely waved to apex of second median 

 nervule where it is angnlated, with a very long tail-like appendage at apex of third median nervule and 

 with a short lobular tail- like appendage at anal angle. Costal nervure extending to apex of wing, subcostal 

 nervules bifurcating near middle of cell ; first and second median nervules with an apparently common 

 origin at end of cell, third median nervnle omitted a little beyond middle of cell ; submedian nervure 

 straight, internal nervure rounded and convex. Body moderately robust. Palpi with the apical joint 

 slender and about one-third the length of second in male and one half the length of second in female. t 



This is probably a truly Oriental genus. 

 1. Bindahara phocides. { (Tab. XX., fig. 25 3 *) 



Hesjm-ia Phaeides, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 282. n. 85 (1798). 

 Papilio Phoritfat, Donov. Nut. Eep, ii. t. 44, f. 1 (1824). 

 Mi/rintt Phocidea, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. lHS t n. 1 <18G9). 



* Oue Rpecimeu only examined. 



+ Mr. Moore, in lm diagnosis of this genus, has presumably given the length only of the apical joints of the palpi in 

 a male specimen. 



; This is not th* jrpecies found in Ceylon, and figured and described by Mr. Moore as B* phocitt€i t and of which 

 lie place* the B. aupriva, Horaf. t rr a synonym. Horsfit M'b species— found toth in Java and Ceylon— is, however, quite 

 drstiTit t. tint hir<:e ochracoouj* anal puteb ami ihe blue marginal fascia to the posterior wing» Iming alone well-marked 

 difference, whilst the type specimen of ii, phocides is contained in the Bankf<iaii collection of the British Museum, where 

 I have examined it with Mr. Uutler. 



