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larger, and as the large oblong patch near the outer niiu-gin is accompanied on its inside by a small
spot, there is a continuous series of spots of irregular size from the anal angle to the outer angle.
Captain Boys possesses a male insect, which is doubtless the male of that here figured, which wants
the white spot near the anal angle on the upper side, and the spot at the extremity of the tail is
nearly obliterated on this side.
Figure 5 represents a very large female from Assam, comnranicated by JMajor Jenkins, distinguished
by the very groat breadth of the tails of the hind wings, and by the spots (except the large one near
the outer angle of the Mud wings) being on the upper surface scarcely varied with red. Most of the
specimens which I have seen from Sylhet and Assam agree in this latter respect, whereas.
Figure 2, which is drawn from the type specimen of P. Philoxenus, has the tail but moderately
broad, and the spots on the upper side of the hind wings are (except the large outer one) strongly
marked with red. This is a native of Nepaul.
Figm-e 3 represents another insect from Sylhet, which ]Mr. E. Doubleday (Zool. Misc., p. 74)
described under the name of P. Polyeuctes, but which he now considers as a vaa-iety only of P. Philoxenus.
The posterior wings are very much elongated, and on the upper side the large white spot of the hind
wings is not accompanied by the two small spots visible on either side of it on the under surface, nor
is the red mark at the anal angle visible. Mr. Doubleday having represented the upper side of this
supposed species, in his work on the butterflies now in coiu-se of pubhcation, the under side is here
given, copied fr'om a figm-e communicated by Mr. Doubleday.
On attentively looking at all these insects, and allowing for the variations which occur in different
specimens, especially when captured in different locaUties, it -ndll be admitted that they all possess but
one tj'pe in the mai-kings, the spots occm-ring in all the same relative positions, and varying only in
the greater or less extent, or even the occasional absence of some of them.
The plant represented in the Plate is the newly-imported Chirita sinensis.
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