notes on a caterpillar farm. 283 



Nos. 4, 5, and 6 were found on 4th September on a " Soursop "* 

 (Anona muricata) in our garden at Cumballa Hill. Two of them 

 were rather larger than the specimens just described when first 

 found. The third was so much smaller he could hardly have be- 

 longed to the same brood. He was soon lost, being probably 

 thrown away with the old leaves when the food was changed, an 

 accident which should be guarded against by careful examination 

 of both sides of the leaves and the stalks. Of the remaining two, 

 one came to his end by drowning in the manner already described. 

 The third entered on his pupahood on 19th September, and the 

 imago appeared on 30th, taking two days less than Nos. 1 and 

 2 and one day more than No. 3. On 21st September we observed 

 a female of Papilio agamemnon laying eggs singly on the bark 

 of twigs of Guatteria longifolia on the Pedder Road. We 

 secured a few, but they were unfortunately lost before they were 

 hatched. From the dates above given, however, it would appear 

 that P. agamemnon in Bombay continues to breed at least through 

 July, August, and September. 



In early infancy the larvae of this species resemble the droppings 

 of small birds, but not so strongly as do those of the species next 

 described. 



Papilio pammon. — We retain the name by which the specimens 

 in the Society's collection are named, and under which certain 

 habits of mimicry in the larva? and pupa were described at page 229 

 of the 4th volume of the Society's Journal, but Mr. de Niceville 

 prefers the name P. polytes for this species. 



Nos. 1 and 2 were found, apparently just hatched, on the upper- 

 side of the leaves of a sweet lime ( Citrus limetta) in our garden on 

 1st August. Their remarkable resemblance at first to bird-droppings f 

 and afterwards to the leaves of the food-plant, as well in shape and 

 position as in colour, has already been described in the paper above 

 mentioned. The protective imitation by the larvae of this species 

 is much closer than by those of P. agamemnon, possibly because 

 they are not furnished with the same forbidding tentacles. 



Our specimens attained to the length of about l\ inches before 

 assuming the pupa form. This No. 1 did on 9th August and 

 emerged a perfet male imago on 20th. No. 2 was "found drowned" 

 on 10th August, when apparently on the point of turning into a 



* Native name, Bilaiti nana. 



