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Expanse, <$ 5, ? 6 inches. 
Habitat. —N. E. India. 
Distribution. —The type specimen of the male (fig. 1) was taken in the Jaintia 
Hills, Assam, by Col. Swinhoe’s native collectors, and is now in the collection of 
Mr. W. Rothschild at Tring. The female (fig. 2) was taken by Mr. James Rothney, 
in Barrackpur Park, near Calcutta, in March, 1886, and is now in our own 
collection. 
ILIADES POLYMNESTOR (Plate 452, fig. 1 larva and pupa, la, lb, $ ). 
Papilio Polymnestor , Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. p. 83, pi. 53, fig. A, B, £ (1775). Goeze, Ent. Beytr. iii. 
1, p. 83 (1779). Eabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 9 (1781). Jablonsky, Nat. Schmett. ii. p. 11, pi. t, 
fig. 3, 4 (1784). Esper, Ansi. Sclimett. p. 77, pi. 19, fig. 1 (1785). Donovan, Ins. of India, 
pi. 20, fig. 2, 7 (1800). Goclart, Ency. Metfi. ix. p. 29 (1819). Lucas, Lep. Exot. p. 21, pi. 12, 
fig. 1 (1835). Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 191 (1836). Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. 
i. p. 10 (1846). Chenu, Ency. Hist. Nat. Pap. pi. 3, fig. 2 (1851). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. 
E. I. Company, i. p. 101, pi. 3, fig. 1, la larva and pupa (1857); id. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 756. Butler, 
Catal. Eabr. Lep. B. M. p. 256 (1869). Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 8 (1884). de Niceville, 
Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 51. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soe. Lond. 1888, p. 430. Davidson and 
Aitken, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1890, p. 366. Betham, ib. l.c. 1892, p. 325. Rothschild, 
Nov. Zool. ii. p. 324 (1895). 
Iliades Polymnestor , Hlibner, Yerz. bek. Schmett. p. 88 (1816). Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 144. 
Papilio {Iliades) Polymnestor, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 51. Eerguson, Journ. 
Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891, p. 446. 
Imago. —Male. Hppersicle rich blue-black; cilia alternated with white. Fore¬ 
wing with a transverse discal pale bluish-grey scaled interrupted band composed of 
short longitudinal streaks between the veins, these streaks being most intense and 
widest posteriorly, and decreasing both in width and length anteriorly, where they 
obsolescently terminate at the lower subcostal branch. Hindwing with the outer 
area, from a fourth, or third, of the apex of the cell, pale greyish-blue, crossed by a 
curved discal series of seven black spots, situated between the veins, these spots 
being either oval or broadly conical; followed by a submarginal similar row of 
spots and then a marginal row of angled spots, these latter being at the vein ends 
decreasing anteriorly in width, and sometimes there partly coalesce with the opposite 
submarginal spot. Underside duller blue-black. Forewing with a crimson basal cell 
streak; discal vein-streaks extending anteriorly to the costa, these being dull 
ochreous-grey anteiiorly and bluish-grey posteriorly. Hindwing with crimson basal 
patches ; the outer discal area, from beyond the cell, dull ochreous-grey, traversed 
by the discal, submarginal, and marginal black spots, as on upperside. 
Eemale. Upperside. Forewing duller black, in some fuliginous-black, with the 
cell streaks and that between the veins black ; the discal streaks paler bluish-grey ; 
base of cell sometimes sparsely speckled with crimson scales. FLindwing similar to 
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