RHOPALOCERA MALA VAXA. 



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nevertheless having a different aspect ; it is somewhat hirger, has all the markings lilacker and 

 thicker on both surfaces, the triangular band {i.e., the fourth true band) broader, mid hkhv 

 elongated so as almost to cross the cell," &c. Now this last character is very variable in 

 Malaccan specimens, for in my own collection are examples in which this band completely 

 crosses the cell ; others in which it does not reach the median nervure, as in the specimen 

 figured (Tab. XXXI., fig. 5), and which is the form I'miiiiilius ,• whilst, in others the l)and is 

 much abbreviated and barely crosses a tliird of the cell, thus approaching and sometimes 

 completely agreeing with the form V. akihiades, and these three different aspects of the sijccies 

 are to be found in a single collection made in Perak at the same time. I have tberefore 

 thought it best to treat P. antiphates and all its varieties synthetically, and its habitats tinis 

 and here given must be understood to apply in this larger sense. 



It should be added that the form discriuiiuatod by Air. Foi-bes under the name /'. ildwputi 

 is found in Sumatra. 



The larva and pupa as found in Java have been figured by Horsfield and Moore,' and 

 the first is stated to feed " on a species of Uvaria bearing the native name of Knlak." \ 



EURYFYLUS I Group. 



q. Kuryiiylux-grou^, Wallace, Traus. Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 04 (18G5). 



Sect. XXVII., Felder, Spec. Lepid. Pap. pp. 10, 01 (1804). 



Zetiden, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Sclimett. p. 85 (1810) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 144 1I88I). 



Chlorisses, Swains. Zool. 111. ii. 89 (1832). 



Dalchina, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 143 (1881). 



This is a somewhat numerous group of species whose distribution is focussed in the 

 Malayan Archipelago, and its habital area also comprises Continental India and adjacent 

 islands, the Malay Peninsula, China, Japan, and some parts of Australia. 



Mr. Wallace, who observed these beautiful butterfiies in a state of nature, describes them 

 as flying "with the greatest rapidity of any Papilios ; the eye can scarcely follow them; 

 in fact, they much resemble in habit the humming Sphinxes, and hover over flowers, or more 

 frequently over damp places on the ground, with a constant vibration of the wings." ,!j 



Seven species are known to the writer as inhabiting the Malay Peninsula. 



22. Papilio sarpedon. (Tab. XXXII., fig. (J.) 



PapUio Sarpahm, Linna?ns, Mus. Ulv. p. 190 (1704) ; Syst. Nat. cd. xii. p. 747, u. 15 (1707); Fair. Syst. Eut. 

 p. 447, u. 21 (1775) ; Spec. Ins. ii, p. 8, u. 28 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 4, n. 30 (1787) (part) ; Eut. 

 Syst. iii. p. 14, u. 41 (1793) (part); Esper, Ausl. Schuiutt. p. 38, t. 8, f. 2 (1785); Godt. Euc. Mcth. 

 ix. p. 40, n.02 (1819); Luc. Lep. Exot. p. 9, t. 5, f.l (1835); Boisd. Spec. Gen. i. p. 235, n.57 (1836); 

 Gray, Cat. Lep. Papil. p. 28, n. 135 (1852); Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I. C. vol. i. p. 113, 

 n. 220 (1857) ; Voll. Tijd. Ent. iii. p. 70, n. 48 (1800) ; Keak. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 483, u. 24 

 (1804) ; Wall. Traus. Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 05, u. 110 (1805); Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1805, p. 487, 

 u. 8 ; ibid. p. 757 ; ibid. 1878, p. 841 ; Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 357, n. 21 ; Suell. Tijd. Ent. 

 xix. p. 155, u. 09 (1870) ; ibid. xx. p. 3 (1877) ; Lep. v. Midd. Sum. p. 25, ii. 4 (1880) ; IJutl. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 814, n. 34 ; Traus. Linu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 552, u. 2 (1877) ; Godm. .t Salv. 



* Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I.C. t. iii. fig. 10, 10 a. I H'iJ. P- Uti- 



I P. ewrijpylus, Linn., is a species found in the eastern islands of the Malayan Archipelago. 



§ ' Zoologist,' p. 4G30 (1855). 



