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3. Panthera F. 



Fabricus, Mant. Ins., Ill, /. 39, A^o. 40 (1787) . . . Papilio Panthera. 



HoRSFiELD, Caf. Lep. M. E. I. C, pi. ^, fig. 7, 7r(i828). Melanitis Dusara. 

 Butler, An7i. Mag. N'af. Hist., Scr. 3, 20, p. 404,//. 9, 



fig. 10 (1867) Elymnias Lutescens. 



Distant, Rhop. Mai, p. 62, tab. t,fig. 4, 5 (1882— 1886). 



Moore, Lep. Ind., II, /. 152,/'/. \s^,fig. 2, 2a — (5(1894). .. Mimus. 



Fruhstorfer, Iris, XX, /. 216 (1907) „ Panthera. 



„ (Seitz, Grossschm. d. Erdc), p. 371, //. 



883 (191 1) , 



W. J. Tjampea (160); mount Pantjar, district Buitenzorg; mountains in 



the prov. Prayangan (1500). 



C.J. ? 



E. J. Prov. Passourouan. 



This species is not rare at Tjampea but elsewhere, apparently, it is not at 

 all common. In the lowlands I never met with it. The specimens in my 

 possession from W. Java, especially those from Tjampea, belong to the form 

 named Dusara by Fruhstorfer ; the colour of the cf is not always equally 

 dark brown, some approaching the 9 in shade. A d from the prov. Passou- 

 rouan completely agrees with the latter but not with the form Dulcibella 

 figured by him, which is unknown to me. 



The larvae were repeatedly observed on aren oiitan (Arenga Obtusifolia 

 Mart.), pinang rendeh (Pinanga Kuhlii B1.), and kiray Metroxylon Sagus 

 Rottb.), I was unable to distinguish it from the larva of E. Undularis Drury. 

 The same was the case with the pupae which, however, were particularly 

 brightly coloured ; I have notes of one chrysalis being ornamented on the 

 beauiful green colour with longitudinal yellow lines mixed with handsome red, 

 containing here and there oblong black spots. Dr. L. Martin, in the Deutsche 

 Entomologische National- Bibliotlick 19 10, A^o. 12, gave a description of the larva 

 and pupa bred by him .at Sintang in West Borneo. From a .spherical milky- 

 white ^^% deposited on the leaf of a dwarf species of palm the caterpillar was 

 hatched after four days, being yellowish white at first but which after feeding 

 became yellowish green with black head, when is gradually changed into the 

 full-grown larva whose description on the whole answers to that given by me 

 of the larva of E. Undularis Drury, but in which besides the double dorsal 

 line only a single lateral line on either side is said to occur and whose horns 

 are said to be black and to terminate in three points. The pupa also has the 



