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rorated over the basal half, and sometimes beyond, with whitish atoms ; near 
the margin is a series of six red lunules, each divided longitudinally by a 
slender light blue line ; indentations margined with white, a little fulvous 
at the base : anal angle with an imperfect ocellus, of which the pupil is 
black, the iris red, marked witb a blue crescent. 
Head, thorax and abdomen black, irrorated with golden green. (Exp. 
alar. 5 unc.) 
Inhabits Nepal, Assam. Museo Britannico. 
Closely allied to P. Paris, but differs in the foim of the large blue patch, 
which is sinuated, not rounded anteriorly, and is not connected with the 
anal angle by a sinuous line. It also differs in the cottony clothing of the 
terminations of the posterior nervures of the anterior wings, in which it 
resembles P. Bianor and Polyctor. 
Papilio Polyeuctes, $ . Above : — Anterior wings black, deepest at base, 
striated in the discoidal cell and between the terminations of the nervures : 
posterior wings very much elongate, deeply dentate, with a rather short 
spatulate tail : between the two posterior branches of the subcostal nervure, 
and close to the discoidal cell, is a large nearly quadrate white spot ; at 
the anal angle is a broad sigmoid spot, crimson where it touches the mar- 
gin, dusky red internally ; a second spot of a dusky red is placed at the 
termination of the tooth, between the tail and the anal angle : preceding 
this, and nearly in front of the tail, is an oval spot, and near the outer 
margin, opposite the tooth preceding the tail, a larger quadrate one, both 
of the same dusky red : tail marked at the apex with a rounded crimson 
spot, slightly shaded with fuscous, and divided by the nervure. Below : — 
Anterior wings rather paler than above ; striee more distinct : posterior 
wings nearly as above, the red markings much brighter, the white patch 
preceded by a small rounded dot of the same colour, and followed by a 
white dash margined with pink : on the abdominal margin, above the sig- 
moid spot, is a narrow irregular bifid crimson spot. 
Head crimson : thorax and abdomen very hairy, black above, crimson 
below, the former marked anteriorly above with crimson, the latter with the 
incisures below, black : legs black. (Exp. alar. 4 unc. 9 lin.) 
Inhabits Silhet. Museo H. Doubleday. 
Closely allied to P. Philoxenus, Gray, but has the posterior wings much 
more elongate, their length without the tail being two inches, their breadth 
not averaging three-fourths of an inch. The abdominal fold of the male 
(the only sex I know) is broad and abruptly truncate, whereas in P. Phi- 
loxenus it is obliquely so. I may here mention that in the British Museum 
there are both sexes of P. Minereus and Philoxmus, and that no one who 
has ever seen them can doubt their distinctness. 
Papilio Xenocles. Above : — Anterior wings fuscous, with greenish-white 
markings, viz. in the discoidal cell four long oblique dashes, of which the 
second and third are confluent near the subcostal nervure, and the third 
and fourth have between them externally an irregular dot ; below the dis- 
coidal cell five broad dashes, the first close to the inner margin pointed at 
its termination, divided at its origin by the short branch of the radial ner- 
vure, the second bifid nearly to its base, the third and fourth resting at 
their origin like the preceding on the discoidal cell, the fifth short, preceded 
by small, somewhat oval spots : beyond the discoidal cell are two round 
spots, each followed by and united to a long dash, above which are three 
