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P. bootes. Very similar to the preceding species, principally distinguished by the red basal area of the 
under surface not being continued at the abdominal margin of the hindwing. Assam and West China. — bootes bootes. 
Westw. (27 b), from Assam, has always a reddish white double spot at the tip of the tail. — In nigricans Rothsch. 
(= echo Ehrm.) (see vol. I, 3 a), from West China, the tail is black. Examples frcttn Tse-kou are ab. rubicundus 
Fruhst.; do they really differ from the very variable nigricans ? 
3. Gloss-Papilios. 
The upperside of the body and wings with green or blue metallically glossy scaling; in some forms this 
dusting is almost uniformly distributed over the whole upper surface, but most species have a large metallic 
patch or a band, and in others the greater part of the upper surface is glossy blue or green. The under surface 
is always dark (protectively coloured). In the larvae, so far as known, the thoracic segments are thickened, 
scutellated. 
Paris-Group. 
The upper surface of the wings dusted with green, forewing with or without thin green or yellowish 
band; hindwing without metallic patch or anteriorly with thicker metallic scaling or with metallic patch, which 
is sometimes prolonged into a posteriorly thin band. The submarginal spots of the hindwing beneath red or 
yellow, ornamented with aTcurved blue mark. 
P. elephenor Dbl. (84 a). Head pale ochre-yellow, the sides of the abdomen yellow-grey; <$ and $ tailless, elephenor. 
<$: forewing with hair-streaks, and like the hindwing sprinkled over with green-blue scales; hindwing narrower 
than in protenor, with red anal eye-spot and sometimes a red submarginal lunule between the two median veins. 
Under surface of the forewing blackish grey, with black stripes on and between the veins; forewing black, with 
a row of red submarginal lunules. $ quite similar to the -—-Assam: Khasia and Naga Hills, Cachar, Sadiya, 
Jorehat. Eare, especially the $. 
P. dialis. Body black as in the following species, above dusted with metallic scales. Upper surface 
of the wings dusted with green, hindwing with blue tinge in the costal region, but without metallic patch, at 
the anal angle a red ring; the tail is absent, or is stunted, or as long and broad as in P. bianor, with all the 
intermediate stages. The under surface similar to that of bianor, but the forewing always less extended dark than 
in the respective form of bianor from the same country. The scent-streaks of the $ always narrow and widely 
separated, of much more uniform width than in P. polyctor, in which the stripes are likewise separated. The $ is 
less densely metallically scaled than the U and has on the upperside of the hindwing a red submarginal spot behind 
the 2. median. The earlier stages are unknown. The butterfly is rare in collections. Fruhstorfer is the only 
collector whoVaptured even a small series. He found the insect near the native habitations on refuse-heaps before 
and among the huts, as well as on the moist sand of a river-bank. Though the butterfly is very shy, yet when 
driven away it frequently returned again to the same place. When feeding it always keeps the wings closed. 
During its circling, hovering flight it presents a fine spectacle by its graceful movements (Fruhstorfer). Distributed 
from the Shan States to Central China and Formosa. The genitalia of most species of this group are so similar 
that scarcely any distinct differences can be shown. — schanus subsp. nov. upper surface of the hindwing schanus. 
somewhat less blue than in the next subspecies, with 1—8 red submarginal spots besides the anal eye-spot, and 
very short stumpy tail, which projects less than in the other forms. Beneath the forewing only blackish to the 
base of the lower median and the submarginal spots of the hindwing more yellowish. The scent-stripes 
very narrow, no stripe on the submedian fold. Southern Shan States: 1 $ in the Tring Museum, a second 
in the^Museum at Calcutta*(coll. De Niceville). — doddsi Janet (= megei Oberth .) (34 a). Tail either quite doddsi. 
short or long, broad and spatulate, with all the intermediate stages. U only with red anal eye-spot on the 
upperside of the hindwing, $ in addition with red submarginal spot. The black basal area on the underside 
of the forewing reaches in the to the base of the upper median, and in the $, which I only know from the 
description, probably does not extend quite so far. Tonkin. — caialeucas Rothsch. (= cataleuca Fruhst.). A cataleucas. 
small form, of which only a few UU are known, which were taken by the late J. Whitehead in the Five-Finger 
Mountains of Hainan. Forewing with 2 very thin distinct pilose stripes and one indistinct one; the black basal 
area of the under surface is very strongly reduced and remains at a distance from the lower median. The tail 
short and narrow or longer and spatulate. Hindwing above with 3 red submarginal spots. — dialis Leech. Tailed; dialis. 
the black basal area of the forewing beneath reaches to the lower median, the scattered light scales on the under 
surface of the hindwing are almost all green, upper surface with 2 red submarginal spots. West China, U in coll. 
Leech; a second, slightly different J from Kiatim, North-West Fokien, in the Tring Museum. — andronicus andronicus. 
