gjj^ RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



tlu-eatened with the net."* Mr. L. de Niceville states that the " species contains in itself the 

 elements of protection in having a very strong somewhat rose-Hke odour, which is probably 



distasteful to birds." t 



The larva and pupa of this insect were discovered by Horsfield in Java, drawings of which 

 have been published. I In India the larva is recorded as feeding on " Aristolochia." § 



PERANTIIUS Group. 



e. P<^)7(»t/u(i-group, Wallace, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 23 (1865). 

 Sect. LXIII., Sub-sect. C, Felder, Spec. Lepid. Pap. pp. 34, 83 (18G4). 

 Hiiiimaia, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 145 (1881). 



The characters of this and the four following groups are thus given by Mr. Wallace :— 

 "LarvEB with third segment swollen, transversely or obliquely banded; pupa much bent. Imago 

 with abdominal margin in $ plaited, but not reflexed." Posterior wings often caudately produced. 



This is a small and distinctly coloured group of Papilios, all more or less marked with 

 metallic-greenish scales. P.pcranthus, Fabr. (the name of which Mr. Wallace has applied to the 

 group) is found in Java and some of the neighbouring islands, most of the other species being 

 scattered throughout the Malayan Archipelago ; the group is also represented in Continental 

 India ; one species is found in Ceylon and one in this fauna. 



6. Papilio brama. (Tab. XXXII., fig. 4 <? .) 



Papilio Brama, Guerin, Eev. Zool. 1840, p. 43, t. 1, f. 3, 4 ; Deless. Souv. Inde, ii. p. 71 (1843) ; Wall. Trans. 



Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 46, n. 39 (1865) ; Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 357, u. 15. 

 P. Palinnnts, De Haan (nee Fabr.), Verb. Nat. Ges. Ned. overz. Bez. p. 28, t. 7, f. 3 (1840). 



Male. Wings above fuscous, thickly covered with minute greenish scales; anterior wings with a 

 transverse metallic-greenish fascia crossing wing at end of cell— where it is narrowest — and reaching inner 

 margin near outer angle— where it is broadest ; posterior wings with a similarly coloured fascia crossing 

 wing from between the subcostal nervules— where it is broadest — to the abdominal margin near anal 

 angle — where it is narrowest ; a dark spot lunulated with dull red and violaceous at anal angle, and a 

 marginal series of greenish lunulate spots ; caudate appendages dark fuscous. Wings beneath dark 

 brownish, somewhat thickly covered with minute ochraceous scales ; anterior wings with a broad pale 

 brownish fascia transversely crossing wing near apex — broadest at costal margin and narrowest at outer 

 angle ; posterior wings with the outer margin paler and containing a marginal series of dark lunulate spots 

 irrorated with dull reddish and violaceous, the spot at apex inwardly greyish-white. Body above and 

 beneath with legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Female. Resembling the male, but larger, and with the metallic-greenish fascia to the anterior 

 wings narrower. 



Exp. wings, J" , 88 to 90 millim. ; S , 100 millim. 



H.U3. — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Biggs — coll. Dist.). — Sumatra 

 (Wallace). — Borneo (Druce). 



This was considered one of the rarest species when the writer collected in the 

 Peninsula. A female Malaccan specimen sent home by the Eev. L. C. Biggs had this 



■' Month. Packet, vol. ii. p. I'Jl (1881). f 'The Asian Sporting Newspaper,' vol. iv. p. 175 (188U). 



I Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. 1. C. vol. i. t. 11, f. 5, 5a. 

 § Capt. de la Chaomette, Ent. Month. Mag. vol. ii. p. 37 (18G5). 



