360 IITIOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. G41, n. 28 ; Obcrth. Etudes d'Ent. Quatr.Livr. p. 59, n. 144 (1879) ; De Nic. 



J. A. S. Beug. vol. L. p. 59. u. 113 (1881) ; Aurivill. Kougl. sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. Baud. 19, no 5, 



p. 20 (1882). 

 X>'ti,l,'s Sarpedon, Hiibn. Saiiiml. Exot. Schmett. iii. t. 25 (1824-41). 

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

 Ihilchina Sarpedon, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 257. 

 Popilio Ikmophm, Meerburgh, Afbeeld, t. 9 (1775) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. vi. t. G4 (1806). 



Male and Female. Wings above blackish ; both wings crossed by a pale green discal fascia, which 

 on the anterior wings is narrowed, broken, and macular above the median nervules and on the posterior 

 wings is narrowed and elongately angulated beneath the median nervure ; posterior wings with a 

 submarginal series of lunulate green spots and three narrow pale greyish fringe-like spots at anal angle. 

 Wings beneath paler than above ; posterior wings having the base of the green fascia inwardly margined 

 with a black and red spot, a black spot outwardly margined with red occupying apex of cell, between which 

 and the submarginal green spots there are an irregular series of blackiBh spots which from cell to anal 

 angle are more or less marked with carmine-red. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings ; 

 legs more or less greyish. 



Exp. wings, <? and S , 7'2 to 85 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; N.W. Himakya (Lang and Hocking— Moore) ; Sikkim (De Nic); 

 Darjeeling (coll. Dist.).— Tenasserim ; Hatsiega, Houngduran Source (Limborg— Moore).— Malay 

 Peninsula; Quedah, Province Wellesley, Penang (coll. Dist.) ; Perak (Kiinst.) ; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. 

 Mus.).— Sumatra (Voll.).— Billiton (coll. Godm. k Salv.).— Java; Batavia (Snell.).— Borneo (Druce) ; 

 Elodina (Pryer— coll. Dist.) ; Banjermasiu (coll. Dist.).— Philippines (Semper).— Celebes (Voll.).— Amboina 

 (Voll.).— Aru Islands (Wallace).— New Guinea (Wallace;.— Formosa (Brit. Mus.).— China ; Shanghai 

 (Pryer— Elwes).— Japan (coll. Dist.). 



This is an abundant species, and its habits have been variously described. Thus 

 Mr. de Niceville found it in Sikkim as particularly fond of imbibing moisture from damp spots 

 on the ground, and as returning to the same place, however often disturbed,* and the first part 

 of this observation coincides with the writer's experience in Province Wellesley. In the 

 N.W. Himalaya Capt. Lang described it as " seen but in few places, and never more than one 

 at a time. It is bold and rapid in flight, and not easily captured."! In the same habitat, 

 Mr. Hocking found it flying " round and round the tops of trees." I At Masuri, Capt. Hutton 

 records it as " one of the commonest, Init not the least beautiful, of our butterflies ; it appears 

 early in May, and is found till the end of the rains in September. It usually frequents the 

 tops of oak trees, where it flies about with a jumping or jerking flight, and is somewhat 

 difficult to capture from its quickness, and the height at which it keeps." § 



23. Papilio evemon. (Tab. XXXII., fig. 1.) 



l%ipUi„ Kvcwnn, Doisauval, Spec. Gen. i. p. 284, n. 55 (1836); Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. 



p. 552, n. 3 (1877) ; Obcrth. Etudes d'Ent. Quatr. Livr. p. 59, u. 139 (1879) ; Kheil. Rhop. der Inscl. 



Nias, p. 37, n. 142 (1884). 

 r,ipilii) Jiisiin, var. P'reinon, Wall. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 07 (1865). 



Male and Female. Wings al)0ve black, with the following pale greenish markings :— five spots ni 

 cell,— the basal three linear, the outermost two broader,— beyond cell is a discal series of eight spots 



■■■■ i. A. S. Ben,;,', vol. L. p. ,09 (1881). \ Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 487. 



; Proc. ZdoI. Soc. 18S'2, p. 2,57. § Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. p. 51 ^1848). 



