354 RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



r.ipilio nissimilis, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 479, n. 130 (175S) ; Mas. Ulr. p. 301, n. 119 (176i) ; Syst. Nat. 

 ed. xii. p. 782, n. 195 (1707) ; Clerck, Iconcs. Ins. i. 1. 10, f. 2 (1759) ; Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 511, n. 288 

 (1775); Spec. Ins. ii. p. 101, n. 44-1 (1781); Mant. Ins. ii. p. 54, n. 539; Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 38, n. 113 

 (1793); Cram. Pap. Exot. i. t. 82, C, D |1775); Sulz. Gescb. Ins. p. 145, t. 18, f. (1770); Gmel, 

 Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2325, n. 195 (1790); Herbst, Naturs. Schmett. vi. p. 41, u. 28, t. 120, f. 2, 3 (1793); 

 Esper, Ausl. Schmett. p. 233, t. 57, f. 3 (1798); Godt. Enc. Metb. ix. p. 75, n. 143 (1819) ; Lucas, 

 Lep. Exot. p. 40, t. 23, f. 2 (1835) ; Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. p. 377, n. 224 (1830) ; Gray, Cat. Lep. Papil. 

 p. 71, n. 330 (1852) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. vol. i. p. 91, n. 187 (1857) ; Veil. Tijd. 

 Ent. iii. p. 88, u. 155 (1800) ; Reak. Proc. Ent. Soc. Pbil. iii. p. 490, n. 28 (1804) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1805, p. 480; ibid. p. 750; Obertb. Etudes d'Ent. Quatr. Livr. p. 100, n. 323 (1879). 



Cli/tia Dis.'iiDiili.i, Swains. Zool. 111. Ins. ii. t. 120 (1833). 



Chilasa Dist^iiiiilis, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 153, t. 57, f. 1, », b (1881); Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 201. 



Male. Wings above blackisli, witb pale ocbraceous markings ; on anterior wings tbese markings consist 

 of a narrow basal subcostal streak, a triangular patcb outwardly and triple-cleft occupying about basal 

 half of cell, three spots in and before end of cell, followed by a curved discal series of ten spots irregular 

 in shape and size, two long and basally fused fasciate-like spots between lower median nervule and 

 submediau nervure, a submarginal row of smaller spots, a prominent apical spot, and a series of minute 

 fringe-like spots ; on posterior wings the markings are as follows : — ^a large patch more or less occupying 

 cell, which is surrounded by a series of long and fasciate-like spots placed between the nervules ; these 

 spots are outwardly lunate and somewhat lanceolate inwardly, — that between the lower median nervule 

 and the submedian nervure being much the longest, — and a submarginal series of lunate spots ; two dark 

 ochraceous spots at anal angle and the fringe alternately of that colour. Wings beneath much paler than 

 above ; anterior wings spotted as above, but the spots paler than above and somewhat shaded with bluish ; 

 posterior wings creamy, the neuration broadly blackish, a submarginal series of creamy spots with blackish 

 margins, a marginal series of dark ochraceous spots with inner blackish margins and a large and similar 

 spot, with a blackish centre at anal angle ; fringe alternately creamy-white. Body above and beneath 

 blackish, spotted and striped with pale ochraceous; legs blackish, streaked with pale ochraceous. 



Exp. wings, 92 to 110 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India ; N.W. Himalaya (Lang & Hocking — Moore) ; Canara (Horsf. & Moore) ; 

 Darjeeling (coll. Dist.) — Ceylon (Thwaites — coll. Dist.). — Malay Peninsula; Penang ; Province Wellesley 

 (coll. Dist.) ; Perak (Biggs — coll. Dist.) — Philippines (Reak.). — Cochin China (Oberth.). — China (Voll.) ; 

 Hong Kong (Gray). 



The larva and pupa of this species have been figured by Horsfield and Moore,* and were 

 copied from the drawings of General Hardwicke, in the Library of the British Museum. They 

 have also been figured in Moore's ' Lepidoptera of Ceylon,' f from drawings made on that 

 island by the Bros, de Alwis, and the larva is there stated to feed on " Tetranthera," and 

 again by Mr. Mackwood to feed on Cinnamon. I Horsfield and Moore also state that the 

 transformations were observed by Lady Gilbert, — presumably in Continental India, — who 

 described the larva as feeding on a plant called by the natives Maike. " The larva was 

 obtained on the 2Gth July ; two days after it commenced its transformation, and on the 

 following day the chrysalis resembled a dried twig, adhering to the frame only by the 

 extremity of the tail, and supported on each side by two fine threads ; in this state it died."§ 

 In N.W. India, Capt. Lang writes: — "The only place in which I have seen this species 

 is Subbathoo, altitude 4000 feet, in June, frequenting a grassy undulating down, flying rapidly 



- Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, T. 11, f. 3, 3 a, 3 6. f Lep. Ceylon, vol. i. t. 57, {.la, lb. J Ibid. p. 153. 



§ Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. vol. i. p. 92. 



