Eiiommm. 
175 
whitish. Underside much paler and more white, of a uniform clear colour, with the 
veins of both wings black, the median vein of the forewing prominently black. 
Female. Upperside coloured like the male, but the black sparsely spread 
irrorations in the clear interspaces give it a duller appearance, all the veins with black 
bands. Forewing with the costal band and outer marginal band black, the latter with 
a sub-marginal row of pale spots, connected more or less with the narrow pale streaks 
in the interspaces, these streaks narrowing upwards, two pale blackish streaks inside 
the cell, and one rather indistinct along the middle of the internomedian interspace. 
Ilindwing with the outer third black, some pale sub-marginal spots which become 
obsolete hindwards, the upper four more or less connected with the pale streaks on the 
interspaces. Underside as in the male, but the veins are more broadly blackish 
Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen of both sexes dusky-brownish black. 
Expanse, $ $ inches. 
Dry —season Biood ^Digs. Id, le, 
Male. Coloured like the other form, only the median vein of the forewing black, 
the costal and outer marginal bands much narrower. Hinclwing with the outer 
marginal band reduced to a black line, connecting small angular black marks on the 
vein ends. Underside veins less pronounced. 
Female. Upperside with all the interspaces of both wings more broadly bluish- 
white, the black vein bands being much narrower, and the outer marginal bands very 
narrow. Underside with the veins paler. 
Expanse, $ £ 2 T \ to 2 T %- inches. 
Habitat. —Sikkim, Assam, Bhutan and Burma. 
Distribution. —We have received it from the Khasia Hills, Buxar in Bhutan, 
Tongou and Sikkim ; it is in the B. M. also from Burma and Tenasserim; some of the 
Tenasserim examples are somewhat darker than usual, but are otherwise not separable 
from the typical form. 
PARERONIA HIPPIA. 
Plate 607, figs. 1, <£, la, $, lb, $, lc, 9 (Wet-season Brood), Id, le, $ (Dry-season Brood = 
Gaea), If, <j> (yellow hindwing variety), lg, <j> (Extreme Dry-season Brood), lh (Larva), 
li (Pupa). 
Papilio Hippia, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 55 (1787). Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 25, fig. 1, $ (1800). 
Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 193 (1819). 
Ei •onia Hippia, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 388. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 419. 
Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 535. 
Nepheronia Hippia, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 139. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. 
Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 573. Watson, id. 1897, p. 670. Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 
1898, p. 591. de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1902, p. 492. Eruhstorfer, Iris, 1902, p. 299. 
