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costal interspace. Underside similar to the uppers!de, except that the large 
discal spot and upper lunule are outwardly-edged with crimson, the lower lunales and 
tail spot being pale crimson, and the anal marginal patch partly crimson tinged. 
Expanse S 4 to 4J, ? 4 to 4J inches. 
Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 
Distribution.—M r. P. W. Mackinnon records it as <c common in Tehri G-arhwal, 
N. W. Himalaya, in April and May” (Journ. Bombay N. H. S. 1898, 592). Capt. 
Graham Young took it in Kulu (H. J. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 424). We 
possess specimens from Garhwal, taken by Col. Buckley, and from Nepal, taken by 
General G. Ramsay. Mr. E. T. Atkinson (MS. Notes) remarks that “ Ravana, 
Philoxems , and Dasarada fly together at Naini Tal, Kumaon, in September.” 
BYASA NEVILLI (Plate 429, fig. 1, <J). 
Papilio Nevilli, Wood-Mason, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Plist. 1882, p. 105, <y. Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. 
p. 263 (1895). 
Papilio ( Panosmia) Nevilli , Wood-Mason and de Nieeville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 374, 
pi. 15, fig. 2, 2a, 
Papilio Chentsovg, Oberthiir, Etudes Ent. xi. p. 13, pi. 1, fig. 1 £ (1886). Leech, Butt, of China, 
ii. p. 543 (1893). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside. Forewing fuliginous-black, with a black longi¬ 
tudinal streak between the veins, and others within the cell. Hindwing paler 
fuliginous basally, black posteriorly; with two large upper-discal pink-white spots, 
placed in the subcostal interspaces, followed by the three lower submarginal bright 
crimson lunules, and a less-apparent dull crimson streak from the anal angle ; a 
portion of the crimson spot of the underside being also visible at end of the 
abdominal fold; tail broad, not spatulate, entirely black. Underside. Similar. 
Hindwing with the two large pink-white spots as on the upperside, and with a very 
small upper pink spot in the costal interspace ; the three lower bright crimson 
lunules larger, and a crimson broken patch crossing the submedian and lower 
median from the marginal anal angle. 
Thorax and abdomen above black ; streaks on thorax above, collar, front of 
head and palpi, and abdomen beneath crimson; abdomen beneath with black 
segmental cross-bands. 
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Female. Upperside paler. Hindwing with the two upper patches white, the 
upper submarginal lunule either white or very pale crimson. 
Expanse, S 4J, $ 4 inches. 
Habitat. —Cachar ; W. China. 
Distribution. —The type specimens of B. Nevilli are recorded from the “ vicinity 
of Silchar, in Cachar” (W. Mason, l.c. p. 105). 
