PAENASSIUS. 493 
Male. Creamy white, rrimaries are blackish at the base and narrow ly 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 composed 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 ; 
the abdominal third of the wing is black, its outer edge deeply indented ; submarginal band 
composed of black lunules. Wings of the ground-colour, chequered with black at the 
extremities of the nervnles, where they are preceded by linear spots on the primaries, and 
roundish ones on the 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 baud, outwardly edged with 
black ; there is a pale red spot near costa outlined in black, a similar one beyond the 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. ejJajihiis, also 
with P.jacqiiemonii, Gray, and IMauch&rd'sjacquemonti, fig. 3. 
Var. poeta, Oberthiir. " Poefa 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'entici-ement couvertes par un semis d'utomes noirs. Le fond des ailcs 
dans jmeta est un peu jaunatre comme ches! mercurius. Epajphus-cachemiriensis autre forme, 
sans doute issue de la merae souehe originelle, reste ge'ne'ralement d'un blano assez pur et 
assez eclatant. 
" Dans poeta, les antenncs sont, comme chez cpaphus, annele'es de blanc avco la massue noire ; le 
corps est tres vein ; les polls sont blanchatres, tres longs et reoouvrent la base des ailes et le 
bord anal des infericures ; les taches rouges sont ge'ne'ralement tres doveloppees, mais variant 
comme nombre de 1 a 3 aux ailes superieures. La tache rouge pros du bord costal persist© 
dans tous les exemplaires que j'ai sous les yeux. 
" Aux ailes inferieures, la tache rouge basilaire existe ])arfois comme chcz epaplms type on est 
absente comme ehez epaphus-Mchemiriensis. La frange est tres entrecoupee de blanc et de 
noir ; mais, aux ailes infe'rieures, il y a tendance a ce que le noir marginal soit retrcci et a 
ce que la frange soit blanche sauf au point de contact de la nervure. 
" La tache rouge mediane de I'aile inferieure est quelquefois pupillee de blanc. Thibet." 
(OhertMr, Etud.-s.v\.) 
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 ]jlateau near the Thibetan 
