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( Aialaniia sp. ?). Another favourite food appeared to be Gavcinia 

 .rantfwehymus. In form, colour aud markings the larva is very simi- 

 lar to that of the last two, but the enlargement of the 4th and 5th 

 segments is much exaggerated, especially after the last moult. In 

 the pupa the head-case and its two projecting points are more elon- 

 gated. 



74. Papilio helenus, Linnaeus. 



We got one larva of this on the "Tirphal" {Zanthoxylum rhetsa ?) 

 a horribly thorny tree, leafless in the dry season, the berries of 

 which are used by the natives in curry. The 4th and 5th segments 

 were even more tumid than in P. j)olymnestor, forming a broad and 

 high hump, nearly flat on the top, and bounded before and behind 

 by rugged ridges of a whitish, or pale grey colour, chequered with 

 fine brown lines. The anterior ridge ended in a large black and 

 white ocellus on each side, and the whole aspect of the creature 

 from the front had a strikingly grim likeness to the head of some 

 beast or reptile, with heavy brow and angry eyes. In other respects 

 no separate description of this larva is necessary. The pupa was 

 distinguishable from that of P. polymnestor chiefly by the two pro- 

 jecting points on the head being somewhat curved upwards. 



75. Papilio liomedon, Moore, Plate D, figs. ], 2 and 3. 



We do not know whether this deserves to be called more than a 

 variety of P. /iomedon, the larva and pupa of which have been 

 figured by Horsfield. The figures are not good, but recognisable. 

 This was perhaps of all our discoveries the one that pleased us most. 

 It was the 2nd of August and we were on the very peak of 

 Goodhally hill, when one of us noticed a P. liomedon flying suspi- 

 ciously round a tree in very thick jungle. P. liomedon was a tempt- 

 ing butterfly, but with a painful effort of self-control the net was 

 laid down and the butterfly patiently tracked until, after wearisome 

 vacillation, it settled on a tender shoot of Acronyc/iia laurifolia. 



It remained settled for a long time, and then flew off altogether, 

 leaving ten eggs, laid one on the top of the other, as shown in the 

 plate. On the 7th of August the caterpillars emerged, and, to mini- 

 mise risk, were divided between three glass tubes, tightly corked. 

 On the 10th a gust of wind blew one of the tubes off the table and 



