PA PILI0NIPT2E. 
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(MS. Notes) remarks that Philoxenus , Dasarada, and Bavana % together at Naim 
Tal, in September. Mr. H. J. Elwes possesses specimens from Hazara in tlie 
extreme N. W. Himalaya ” (Tr. Eng. Soc. 1888, 426). A male taken at Murree in 
August, and a male from Dalhousie taken in May, are in the British Museum. General 
G. Ramsay obtained numerous specimens in Nepal, of which we possess examples of 
both sexes. Mr. Elwes records it as “ common in Sikkim at the same elevations 
and in the same months as Dasarcida ” (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 426). Mr. G. C. 
Dudgeon took it at Buxa, Bhotan. Col. C. Swinhoe has received many specimens 
from the Khasia and Jaintia Hills. Mr. Ossian Limborg obtained it on the roads 
from “ Moulmein to-Meetan, Upper Tenasserim, and from Moolait to Moolat at 4500 
feet elevation, in December ” (P. Z. S. 1878, 840). Dr. N. Manders found it 
“ abundant in the Shan States, Burmah, and widely distributed” (Tr. Ent. Soc. 
1890, 585). We possess both sexes from the Upper Mekong, Shan States, taken by 
Mr. J. Roberts, C.E. Mr. H. J. Elwes records a “single male from Ponkesai, 
Tavoy, Tenasserim” (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 435). It also occurs in Siam, Tonkin, 
Western China, and the Malay Peninsula. 
Of our illustrations on Plate 426, fig. 1 is from our drawing of the larva and 
pupa preserved by Mr. Hocking ; and la, b, c, d, from male and female specimens 
taken in Nepal. 
BYASA DASARADA (Plate 427, fig. 1, la, b, $). 
Papilio Philoxenus , var. Westwood, Cabinet of Oriental Entom. p. 82, pi. 40, fig. 5, 9 (1848). 
Papilio Dasarcida, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 96 (1857); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 
1865, p. 757. Obertlilir, Etud. Ent. iv. p. 43 (1879). Staudinger, Exot, Schmett. i. p. 9 
(1884). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 425. Oberthiir, Etud. Ent. xvii. p. 3 (1893). 
Papilio ( Panosmia) Dasarada, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 374. 
Pyasa Dasarada, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 312. 
Papilio ( Byasa ) Dasarada, de dSTiceville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 171. 
Papilio Philoxenus, aber. Dasarada, Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 266 (1893). 
Imago. —Both sexes larger than B. Philoxenus. Male. Upperside. Forewing 
rich fuliginous-black. Hindwing longer than in B. Philoxenus ; rich dark blue- 
black, darkest posteriorly; the outer marginal angles, anal angle, and the tail much 
broader; with a single discal white patch, which is larger and less quadrate; the 
sub marginal lunules narrower and recurved, the upper one being white, the lower 
one whitish anteriorly and sullied crimson posteriorly, the anal one crimson, the tail 
spot being more or less small and crimson, sometimes obsolescent or absent. Under¬ 
side. Forewing uniformly paler than the upperside. Hindwing with the large discal 
white patch as on the upperside ; a small white upper spot is generally present in 
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