• -;.'. JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1890. 



double row on each .side oi much shorter ones. The 2ml, 3rd and 4th 

 segments have each an additional long- pair between the dorsal and 

 lateral rows. The head is smooth and black, the body of a uniform, 

 dark, madder-brown, prettily lighted by a tinge of pink at the points 

 of some of the fleshy processes. The dorsal processes on the Slh 

 segment and a lateral pair on the seventh are pinkish-white, and a, band 

 of the same colour unites them. The pupa is suspended by the tail 

 nnd a band, which encircles it much nearer the head than is usual 

 with Papilio pupse. In form it is stout, flattened and dilated in the 

 middle, the head and thorax thrown back. The head is somewhat 

 angular and tuberculated, and two of the abdominal segments carry 

 each a prominent dorsal pair of pointed tubercles. In colour it is 

 usually light brown, with a strongly contrasting saddle of "old 

 gold," but we had one of a withered green hue with the saddle bright 

 yellow. The pupa, when touched, makes a husky, squeakiug noise, 

 produced apparently by friction of the abdominal rings. The pupa 

 state lasts nearly four weeks. This larva is a cannibal and, if not 

 well supplied with fresh food, will devour pupas of its own kind. 



65. Papilio hector, Linnaous. 



Larvfe were found throughout the monsoon, and once in April, on a 

 plant near water, which had retained some green leaves. In June, 

 when they first appeared, it was difficult to get food for them, as the 

 young shoots of Aristolochia had scarcely begun to sprout. The egg 

 must have been laid on. the dry stalks of last season. The larva is so 

 like that of 0. minos that no detailed description is necessary, but, 

 apart from the size, it may be readily distinguished by the absence 

 of the pinkish diagonal bar, and by the fact that all the fleshy pro- 

 cesses, which are shorter than in 0. minos, arc more or less pink, or 

 red. The pupa has four pairs of flattened tubercles on the abdominal 

 segments, and is altogether more angular than that of 0. minos. In 

 colour it is a light, pinkish-brown, mottled and streaked with a darker 

 shade. 



66. Papitio aristolochicc, Fabricius. 



"We reared this in Canara during the rains, along with the last. 

 In the Deccan, where it is much commoner, it feeds on Aristohchia 

 bracteata, a feeble plant, with bluish-green leaves, that trails on 



