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Polyctor on the damp sandy margins of streams in the Hills—on these occasions, if 
disturbed, they disperse, only to collect in groups again. Elevation 4000 to 7000 
feet” (Capt. A. M. Lang, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, 101). Mr. P. W. Mackinnon records 
it as “ very common, in the low valleys about Masuri, in company with Pay). Polyctor , 
from March to October. Specimens of the spring brood , which fly in March and 
April, are very small as compared with those of the rainy season . The larva feeds on 
Zanthoxylnm alatum (Order Rutaceas); it is green, with a yellow collar, and brown 
lichen-like markings. Some pup as are coloured like rough bark, others are uniformly 
green ” (Journ. Bombay A. H. Soc. 1898, 592). Mr. W. Doherty found it in 
“ Kumaon generally, from 2000 to 6000 feet elevation, though not very common” 
(Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 137). Mr. H. J. Elwes says, “Mr. O. Moller 
records this species as occurring in Sikkim from 2000 to 3000 feet, from April until 
October, but it occurs at much higher elevations in the N.W. Himalaya, and in 
the Khasias I have seen it up to at least 6000 feet. It is not, however, so common 
in Sikkim as in some other parts of the Himalaya, and the female is decidedly rare. 
I have never taken it myself in Sikkim ” (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 428). Mr. L. de 
Niceville records it as “ somewhat rare in Sikkim, and occurs from 2000 to 5000 feet 
elevation throughout the warm months” (Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 172). 
Col. C. Swinhoe records it from the Khasia Hills (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 312). Col. 
C. H. E. Adamson took “ two specimens at Tsinbo, north of Bliamo, Burma, in May ” 
(List, 1897, 46). We possess specimens from Simla, N.W. Himalaya, Nepal, Sikkim, 
and Loosliai. The British Museum has examples from Kumaon ; taken in May by 
Col. J. C. Pilcher; Nepal; Bhotan. taken in August by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon; 
Sibsagar, Assam, and the Khasia Hills. It is also recorded from Central and 
Western China, Tonkin, and Hong Kong. 
Of our illustrations on Plate 444, fig. 1 represents the larva—copied from 
Mr. Mackinnon’s drawing ; fig. la and Id, from a Nepal male and female; fig. lb 
and lc, male and female from Sikkim. 
China and Japan Species. — Sainia Formosana (Pap. Protenor subsp. Formosana, 
Kothschild, Nov. Zool. v. p. 602 (1898). Habitat. Formosa.— Sainia Demetrius 
(Pap. Demetrius, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 196, pi. 385, fig. E, F (1782). Jablonsky 
and Herbst, Nat. Schmett. ii. pp. 223, 289, pi. 20, fig. 1 (1784). Esper, Ausl. 
Schmett. p. 128, pi. 32, fig. 2 (1792). Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 199 (1836). 
De Haan, Verh. Nat. Gescli. Ned. p. 25, pi. 6, fig. 18,2 $ (1840). Pryer, Bliop. 
Niphon, p. 4, pi. 3, fig. 1 (1886). Leech, Butt. China and Japan, ii. p. 546 (1893). 
Kothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 332 (1895). Syn. Pap. Carpenteri, Butler, Ann. Nat. 
Hist. 1882, p. 318. Habitat. Japan ; C. and E. China, Loo-Choo Islands.— Sainia 
Macilenta (Pap. Macilentus, Janson, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 158, pi. 5, fig. 1 (1877). Pryer, 
Rhop. Nipon. p. 4, pi. 3, fig. 2, ? (1886). Leech, l.c. p. 547 (1893). Syn. Pap. 
