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O R I E N T A L ENTOMOLOGY.
«apposed species are merely local varieties, those from the islands not bemg so much suffused beneatl.
y t h bro^-n. As to the distniction drawn from the dentate margin of the hmd wings, I have but little
doubt that \ a u der Hoeven's figure is incorrect in this respect.
FIGITRB 2. AND 2*.
P A P I L I O ELEPHENOR DOUBLEDAY. (OP. CII. p. 305.)
Papilio aUs auticis elongatis supra nigris ™.idi ii-roi-atis nci'vulis tribus pubescentibus, subtus pallklis
Imeafas ; postic.s ovatis elongatis angustatis, dentatis, nigris riridi-m-oratis, autice csrulesceuti uitentibus lunula
anali infa, subtus mgro-cieruleis lunulls marginalibus rufis CEeruleo-irroratis.
Papmo with the fore ,™gs elongate, aboye black, ii-rorated with green ; three of the inner veins pubescent,
heneath pale stinped with black ; the Ihnd wings ovate, elongate, naa-row, dentate, black, h-rorated with n-een
antenor y glossed with bine, witli a red anal lunnle ; beneath blue black, with red marginal hmules irrorated ,yith'
blue scales (male).
Expansion of the wings o i inches.
luliabits Sylhet. In the British Museum.
DESCRIPTION.—"Anterior wings elongate triangular, the outer margin about two-thirds the length
of the anterior, the inner bearing the same proportion to the outer margin; black, irrorated with
green, at the base of the discoidal cell and on each side of the ner^Tdes, the radial uervTire, the fold
between that and the first median nervule, the first and second median nervules clothed mt h long
liau-s, as in P. Bianor, &c. Posterior wings elongate-ovate, the abdominal margin nearly straight, the
outer quadi-identate, black, irrorated with green, the anterior margin shaded with blue, as in P. Bianor,
the anal angle marked with an oceUus incomplete towards the margin, the pupH jet black, the iris
purphsh red, irrorated with Ught blue. Below the anterior wings are pale, more fuscous towards the
apex, the nervui-es and nervules, four- streaks in the cell, and a series of streaks between the nervules
fuscous. Posterior wings fuscous black, with pui'pHsh reilections, the anal angle with a large rufous
patch pupilled with black, iiTorated with blue, sni-moimted by an intense black cloud, and connected
with a larger lunule of the same rufous colour, and also irrorated with blue; the outer angle has an
imperfect black pupilled ocellus, foHowed by thi-ee lunules, and in the interstice of the second and
thn-d median nervule, a cloud of scattered scales of the same colours, the black ground coloiu- being
more intense above all these markings.
"Head buff, vertex and antenna; black; thorax black; abdomen pale, marked domi the back with
a black streak." (Doubleday, loc. cit.)
The plant represented in the plate is a fine variety of the Azalea Indica.
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