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costal-end of the band with a black patch crossed by a crimson slender sinuous 
streak, and its lower outer-end from within apex of the cell to anal angle bordered 
with black patches crossed by crimson lunules ; abdominal margin with a grey 
streak, and in the male with a pale ochreous woolly-patch ; cilia from upper median 
to anal angle slenderly alternated with white. Body above greyish-black, beneath 
and legs greyish ; antennas black. 
Expanse, 3J to 4 inches. 
Larva.— <c Full-fed 1^- inch long. Head and neck contractile ; body widest at 
the fifth segment, from which it tapers gradually to the anal segment; the ridge 
over the head is furnished with two tubercles, black in front, white posteriorly ; the 
fifth segment has a yellow bar which projects on each side beyond the body, and has 
the appearance of a yoke, the points of this yoke are black. Colour green; the 
thirteenth segment is of a pale transparent blue-green ; a pale yellow subdorsal line, 
and an almost white spiracular line are the only markings; head greenish-yellow; 
legs, claspers, and abdomen blue-green ; the thirteenth segment terminates in two 
sharp points which join at the end, so that the division between them is apparent 
only on close examination” (Mrs. S. Robson, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1895, 
497). 
Pupa. —Conical; truncated in front; head slightly cleft in front; thorax angled 
in front and at the sides, and with a short dorsal frontal projected process. Colour 
pale green, with a lateral and a divaricated pale yellow dorsal line. 
Habitat. —North Western, Central, and Eastern Himalayas; Assam; Burma; 
Shan States ; ? Malay Peninsula. 
Distribution, Habits, etc. —We have a male from Kashmir, taken by the late 
Capt. R. Bayne Reed. Capt. T. Hutton records it as “ very common, at Masuri, in 
fine warm weather, flitting with great rapidity over the tops of the loftiest trees. 
It usually selects some lofty Oak, over the summit of which it continues to dance 
with a jerking flight, like that of P. Sarpedon , until its domain is invaded by another 
individual, when a rapid chase round and round the tree takes place, one-while they 
dart away from the tree down the side of the steep mountain, but ever and anon 
return to the favourite tree, until one is fairly driven off, when the other resumes its 
dance as before. It is difficult to capture, from its high and rapid flight. It 
appears at the end of April, and continues throughout the summer ” (Tr. Ent. 
Soc. 1847, 51). Capt. A. M. Lang says it is “equally rare with P. Sarpedon , 
affecting the same localities in the N.W. Himalaya, at altitudes from 5,000 to 7,000 
feet. I have taken both the species, sitting with closed wings by the moist margins 
of a trickling rill” (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, 101). Major J. W. Yerbury obtained it 
at ee Murree in August and September” (P. Z. S. 1886, 376). Mrs. S. Robson found 
the larva at Masuri, in June, on a large and common tree, Machilus odoratissima ” 
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