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the two upper pairs being partly coalesced; a broad black lunule also at the anal 
angle, the anal area below the latter being tinted with pale ochreons; cilia between 
the veins, and the tail edges white. Underside pale bluish-white. Forewing with 
purplish-black similar transverse bands, as above, except that the two subbasal do 
not reach the posterior margin, and the marginal band is separated from the sub¬ 
marginal throughout its length; the basal and apical interspaces tinted with pale 
olivescent-yellow. 1Kindiving with a well-defined black transverse slender basal 
band, which is continued along the submedian vein, a subbasal band, a discal band 
and a contiguous outer macular band, the latter series curving inward to the end 
of the basal band between it and the anal spot, and its costal portion is lengthened 
and is either erect or slightly angled inward; the submarginal and marginal black 
lunules narrower than on the upperside, and their interspaces pale grey, the former 
being inwardly broadly-bordered with diffused ochreous-yellow; basal interspaces 
also tinted with pale olivescent-yellow. Body greyish-white ; head black with two 
frontal white bands ; collar with two ochreous spots ; thorax above black, bordered 
on each side with long grey hairs, beneath white; abdomen greyish-white, with a 
blackish longitudinal dorsal band and a lateral broken segmental band; legs black 
above, white beneath ; antennae black. 
Expanse, 3J to 3J inches. 
Habitat.— Andaman Islands. 
Distribution. —Specimens were taken at Port Blair, S. Andamans, by Mr. F. de 
ftoepstorff. 
PATHYSA ANTICRATES (Plate 476, fig. 1, la, b, lc, ?). 
Papilio Anticrates , Doubleday, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, xviii. p. 371 (1846) ; Doubleday and 
Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 14 (1846). Gray, Catal. Lep. Brit. Mus. i. p. 29, pi. 3, fig. 3, 3a, 
(1852). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 115 (1857); id. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 759. 
Felder, Verh. Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, p. 302; Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 470, pi. 42, fig. 7 
G (1886). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond. 1888, p. 434. Eimer, Artbild. Schmett. p. 170, pi. 3, 
fig. 6 (1889). Hagen, Iris, 1894, p. 27. 
Pathysa Anticrates, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 313. 
Papilio ( Pathysa ) Anticrates , de Niceville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 174. 
Pajpilio Aristeus Anticrates , Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 419. Eruhstorfer, Deuts. Ent. Zeit. 1902, 
p. 136. 
Pajpilio Pathysa Hermocrates , Elwes, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 437. de Niceville, id. 1895, 
p. 525. 
Papilio Arisleoides, Eimer, Artbild. Schmett. p. 163, pi. 3, fig. 3 (1889). 
Papilio Anticrates var. nigricans, Eimer, l.c. p. 175, fig. T (1889)— melanic var. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside white, with a very faint bluish tint. Forewing with 
six black transverse bands and a broad outer marginal band, from the costa ; the 
