468 [December 



Larva, Tat. Lep. Mus. E. I. Co. I. Plate III. f. 4. 4a. (1857). 

 Boisd., Sp. Gen. I. p. 274. n. 96. (18.3G). 



Dark green; a narrow transverse band on the third segment, marked 

 with white, and having a round bhick spot at the extremity; a grayish- 

 brown transverse band on the fourth, uniting with the brown of abdo- 

 men below. An obli(]ue transverse brown band on the seventh and 

 eighth segments; another, incomplete on the ninth ring, above which 

 there is a round spot; length about 1.75 inches. 



Pupa, much curved ; head, bifid ; some spinous processes on the 

 back, grayish-brown, marked with bhick and a little brown. 



Larvd " feeds on a species of Citrus, bearing the native name of 

 Jwnk, November to April." 



"Note. — Every variety of Juruk or Orange (^Gulog, K!na, Pichet, 

 &c.) produces a different butterfly, although scarcely any difference ap- 

 pears in the caterpillar." — Jlorsfield. 



" Larvse particularly destructive to the lime trees in Ceylon, as are 



also those of J\ Poli/mnesfor, Poljjdorus and Hfctor.''' — R. Tem,j}lf:fon, 



Esq. 



16. Pap. Polytes, Liuue. 



Pap. Folytes. Clerck. Icon. t. 14. f. 1. (1759). 



Linn. Syst. Nat. II. p. 746. n. 5. (1767). 



Cram., III. t. 255. f. A. B. C. (1782). 



Herbst, t. 15. f. 2 f . t. 20: f. 3, 4 ^ . (J 784). 



Fab. Ent. Syst. III. i. p. 2. n. 5. (1793). 



Esper, Ausl. Schmett. t. 3. f. 1: t. 12. f. 1. (1801). 



G. R. Gray, Cat. Lep. Br. Mus. Pt. I. p. 20. n. 83. (1852). 



List. Lep. Br. Mus. Pt. I. p. 25. (1856). 

 Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. Co., I. p. 103. n. 208. (1857). 

 Menelaides Polytes. Hiibn., Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 85. (1816). 

 Menelaides Alphenor. pt. Hiibu.. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 85. (1810). 

 Princeps Heroicus Stichius. Hiibn.. Samml. Exot. Schmett. I. t. 3. (1806). 

 Pap. Pammon. J Boisd., Sp. Gen. I. p. 272. n. 96. (1836). 



De Haan, Verb. Naturl. Geseli. p. 41. (1839). 



E. Doubled., List. Lep. Br. Mus. Pt. I. p. 11. (1S44). 



Diurnal Lepidoptera, I. p. 11. n. 62. (1846). 



Wings, blackish-brown. Priinaries light brnwn on the outer half, 

 divided by longitudinal dai-k rays ; exterior margin dentate ; indenta- 

 tions white. 



Secondaries have a large white or yellowish-white spot in their mid- 

 dle, palmated and divided by the nervules into three, four or five parts. 



