RHOPALOCERA MALA YANA. 



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Film. PAPILIONIDzE. 



Papilionuld:, Lcacb, Sam. Comp. p. 234 (LSI!)); 

 Swains. Phil. Mag. ser. 2, vol. i. p. 187 

 (1827); Westw. Introd. Mod. Class. Ins. 

 p. 347 (1840) ; Bates, Journ. Ent. vol. i. 

 p. 219 (1861); ib. vol. ii. p. 177 (18G4); 

 Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 110 (1881); 

 Marsh. & de Nic. Butt. Iiid. Jlunu. & Ceyl. 

 vol. i. p. 18 (1882). 



Six perfect legs in both sexes. Discoidiil cells 

 of wiugs perfectly closed. Pupa secured by tlie tail 

 and a girdle across the middle. 



Under the iiame of Papilto, Linnaais ori- 

 ginally grouped as one genus all the day-flying 

 Lepidoptera ; the name is now usually restricted 

 to one very large genus, which perhaps, from 

 the size and diversiformity of its species, is the 

 best known of any of the Rhopalocera. It like- 

 wise now dictates the construction of the above 

 family name, which comprises the two well- 

 marked and extensive subfamilies PieriiuT and 

 Papilionince, both of which from the variety and beauty of the butterflies which are thus 

 divisionally classitied, have long been the pride of the amateur's collection, and the admiration 

 of all lovers of Nature. 



Another result of their handsome appearance is that they are better known by name 

 or individuality than most other butterflies, and consequently observations made by non- 

 entomological observers can be with some degree of certainty connected with the true species, 

 which is more than can be said for many other insects thus referred to, by which the value 

 of numerous entomological facts and observations recorded in books of travel is frequently 

 destroyed. 



Fig. 1)1. — I'upa of Uehomoia 

 glancipiK. (KromHorsf. 

 Cat. Lep. E. I. C.) 



<? 2 



Fig. do. — Anterior lews (showing 

 tnrsi) iii' Ornithoptera hejiha'stiis 

 var. 



Subfam. PIEEIN^. 



Pierimr, Swainson, Cab. Cycl. p. 87 (1840); Bates, Joum. Ent. vol. ii. p. 177 (1864); Moore, Lep. Cevl. 



vol. i. p. 116 (1881) ; Marsh. & de Nic. Butt. Ind., Burm. & Ceyl. vol. i. p. 18 (1882). 

 Pieridte, Dup. Cat. Lep. Fr. p. 23 (1846) ; Doubl. Gen. Dium. 



Lep. p. 32 (1847) ; Trim. lUiop. Afr. Austr. p. 24 (1862). 

 Pierides, Westw. Introd. Mod. Class. lus. p. 349 (1840) ; Voll. 



Faun. Ind-ueerl. Mon. Pier. p. 1 (1865). 





Abdominal margin of the bind wing not curved inwardly, 

 nor channelled, to receive the abdomen. Larva; more or less 



Fig. JJ'i. — Lmva of Uehomoia yhimiifpe. 

 (From Horsf. Cat. L«p. E. I.C.) 



