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PEOCEEDINGS OF THE XniRD E\TOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



Mr. Senior- White. 



Mr. Robertson- 

 Brown. 



{Mgle marmelos) Psoraha corylijolia and Murraya Koenigi. The eggs 

 and larvae may be hand-picked and in small areas catching the butter- 

 flies in hand-nets has been found practicable. 



The larva of Papilio demoleus prefers Feronia elephantum to species of 



Papilio demoleus is found to attack Malta orange rather than other 

 varieties in the North-West Frontier Province. Hand-netting of the 

 butterflies has not been found effective at Peshawar. 



Mr, Fletcher. 



Mr. Pillay. 



Mr. Ramakrishna 

 Ayyar. 



Papilio helenus, Linn, 



Bingham, F. I., II. 41-43, f. 8 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 210. 



The race daksha, Hmpsn,, which is confined to the Hill Districts of 

 Southern India, is sometimes a serious pest of orange trees in South 

 Coorg (fde Hannyngton). The typical form helenus is also a minor pest 

 of orange at Shillong. 



Davidson and Aitken give XantJioxylon rJietsa as a foodplant. 



Papilio memnon, Linn. 



Bingham, F. I.. II, 47-49, f. 9 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 210. 



Butterflies were observed to be ovipositing on cultivated pomelo 

 trees at Myitkyina, Upper Burma, in September 1914. Probably a very 

 minor pest of Citrus. 



Papilio polymnestor, Cram. 



Bingham, F. I., II, 50-51, 1. 12, f. 85 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, p. 210. 



The larva is sometimes a serious pest of orange in South Coorg (Me 

 Hannyngton). 



Davidson and Aitken give Atalantia sp. and Garcinia xanthochrymus 

 as wild foodplants, but it may be noted that Moore quotes Citrus decu- 

 mana as the food of the Sinhalese form parinda, Mo. 



At Quilon Travancore, Papilio polymnestor occurg on orange and 

 Murraya koenigi. 



We have found Papilio polymnestor and P. helenus on wild Citrus 

 trees on the Western Ghats. 



Mr. Senior- White. 

 Mr. Fletcher. 



Papilio agamemnon. 



In Ceylon Papilio agamemnon occurs on Anona muricata. 



The larva is figured by Kershaw {Butt. Hongkong, p. 114 t. 4a ff. 10) 

 who says that in Hongkong it feeds on Uvaria inicrocarpa and Unona 



