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other two crimson. Tail entirely black. Underside paler. Hindwing with, the 
discal patch composed of five portions, the upper portion small or united to the 
submarginal lunule of the same interspace, the anal portions and the veins being 
crimson edged, the three lower lunules larger and brighter crimson ; in the sub¬ 
costal interspace, above the discal band, there is also a narrow or broad white 
lunule. 
Female. Upperside. Forewing much paler; greyish-fuliginous. Hindwing 
greyish-fuliginous basally, black posteriorly; the discal patch and submarginal 
lunules white ; the patch composed of five portions, the upper portion united to the 
submarginal lunule of the same interspace; tails black. Underside as in the 
male. Findwing with the discal band white, as on the upperside. Thorax and 
abdomen above black; collar, front of head, sides of thorax beneath, and abdomen 
beneath, crimson ; abdomen beneath with black segmental cross-bands; anal valves 
crimson ; antennae and legs black. 
Expanse, S ? 3J to 4 inches. 
Habitat. —Upper Tenasserim ; Shan States, Burma. 
Distribution. —The type specimens were taken by Col. C. H. E. Adamson, 
Madras Staff Corps, near the Siamese frontier in January, 1880. Mr. J. Wood- 
Mason records 44 a male from Simbyoodine, and a pair from Ponsekai, and a male in 
Major Marshall’s collection taken in March, in the Thoungyeen forests, Upper 
Tenasserim ” ( l.c . p. 435). We possess males from Moulmein, and from Upper 
Mekong, Shan States, the latter taken by Mr. R. Roberts, C.E. 44 This species 
occurs apparently throughout Tenasserim, but is always rare. I have specimens 
from the Ataran Valley taken in March, the Thaungyin Valley taken in the same 
month, and the Daunat Range taken in January ” (de Niceville, J. Bombay U. H. S. 
1899, 334). 
BYASA BOOTES (Plate 432, figs. 1, la, lb, ?). 
Papilio Bootes, Westwood, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842, p. 36; id. Arcana Ent. i. p. 123, pi. 31, $ 
(1843). Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 9 (1846). Gray, Catal. Lep. B. M. i. p. 
15 (1852). Eelder, Verh. Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, p. 325. Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1867, 
p. 672. Eothscbild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 335 (1895). 
Byasa Bootes, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 312. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside. Forewing dark greyish fuliginous-black, blacker 
basally ; with a black longitudinal streak between the veins and similar streaks 
within the cell; a few minute crimson scales generally present at base of the cell; 
cilia alternately edged with white. Hindwing more prolonged posteriorly than in 
Janalca; greyish fuliginous-black basally, deep black posteriorly ; with a lower - 
discal white patch composed of two portions, the inner one, or both, very slightly 
