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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA 
CHARTJS ISWARA (Plate 458, fig. 1, g, la, ?). 
Papilio Iswara, White, Entom. i. p. 280 (1842). Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 11, pi. 2, 
fig. 1 (1846). Gray, Catal. Lep. B, M. i. p. 19 (1852). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 101 
(1857). Felder, Verh. Z. B. Ges. Wien. p. 320 (1864). Wallace, Trans. Linn. Soe. Loud. 1865, 
p. 51. Butler, ib. 1877, p. 553. Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 344, pi. 30, fig. 1, J', 2, $ (1885). 
Hagen, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 154; ib. Iris, 1894, p. 21. Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 288 
(1895). 
Charus Isivara , Moore, Journ. Linn. Soe. Lond. Zool. 1886, p. 51. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside rich brownish-black ; cilia slightly alternated with 
white. Forewing with slender longitudinal golden-yellow scaled cell streaks and 
hairy-scaled broader outer vein-streaks, the latter palest posteriorly; lower base of 
the wing also golden-yellow scaled. Hindwing with a large broad creamy-white 
upper-discal patch composed of four portions ; the outer edge of the lower portion 
not sharply-defined, but thickly white scaled, and with a decreasing cluster of similar 
scales extending from its low 7 er edge; an incurved anal and a lower marginal lunule 
dark crimson. Underside. Forewing duller coloured, bluish-black; cell streaks 
prominent and bluish-grey ; vein streaks short, broad, bluish-grey and uniformly 
restricted midway across the wing. Hindicing blue-black ; upper basal area speckled 
with grey scales; cell streaks and base of the veins grey-scaled; the upper-discal 
white patch as above, but not so broad, and followed by two lower small more-or-less- 
defined v r hite or greyish-white scaled lunular spots placed in the median interspaces ; 
a large dark red anal incomplete ocellus and a red lower marginal complete ocellus, 
the former being inwardly bordered with blue scales, and followed by three lower- 
cliscal blue-scaled lunules; outer margin with a slender white cilial-lunule between 
the veins, the upper being somewhat wider. 
Female. Upperside. Forewing brownish-black, the cell and vein-streaks paler, 
the latter more distinct, and fuliginous-grey posteriorly. Hindwing with similar 
large discal wFite patch as in male, but w 7 ith its anterior portion shorter, the lower 
decreasing cluster of white scales prominent ; a large dark crimson anal and a low r er 
marginal ocellate-spot. Underside. Forewmg paler; similar to the male. Hindiving 
also similar to the male, except that the two lower-discal white-scaled lunules are 
larger, and the red anal and lower marginal ocellate-spot complete, their black 
centre being smaller. Body brownish-black; front of thorax and head white 
spotted; abdomen with a lateral row of white dots and longitudinal whitish scaled 
streaks. 
Expanse, d 5 to 5f, ? 5f inches. 
Habitat.- —Lower Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula; Sumatra; Banka; Billiton. 
Distribution. —Within our area, specimens were obtained by Dr. J. Anderson in 
