470 RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



32. Papilio anticrates, var. (Tab. XLII., fig. 7.) 



I'lijiilio Anticrates, Doubleday, Ann. Nat. Hist, xviii. p. 371 (1846); Gray, Cat. Lcp. Papil. p. 29, n. 140, t. 3, 

 f. 3 (1852) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. vol. i. p. 115, n. 231 (1857). 



Wings above pale greenish-white ; anterior wings with the costa and a broad outer margin lilack, the 

 last divided by a narrow greenish-white line which is broken by the nervules, two black fasciaj crossing 

 wing near base, followed by three shorter fascia of which the innermost alone extends slightly beneath the 

 median nervure ; posterior wings with two longitudinal black basal fasciae (in Sikkim and typical specimens 

 the outer of these fascite is broken and subobsolete), a broad blackish outer marginal fascia — becoming 

 plumbageous at anal angle^dividod by a series of greenish-white lunules, above the anal angle are two 

 pale ochraceous margined spots, tail-like appendages black, their margins and apex more or less greyish- 

 white. Anterior wings beneath as above but much paler, posterior wings beneath much paler than above, 

 the outer basal longitudinal fascia outwardly margined with a series of black and red spots which are 

 deflected and continued inwardly to a little above anal angle, outer margin paler than above, but with its 

 outer portion exhibiting a series of black sublunulate spots, a black spot — l)oth above and below— on 

 abdominal margin a little above anal angle. Body above blackish, pronotum with a greyish fascia on each 

 side, the abdomen annulated with the same colour ; body beneath greyish-ochraceous ; legs greyish, more 

 or less suffused with blackish. 



Exp. wings, CO to 70 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; Silhet (Grayi ; Sikkim (de Nic. — coll. Dist.) ; Darjeeling (Horsf. & Moore).— 

 Malay Peninsula ; Perak (Egerton — coll. Dist.). 



Fam. HESPEKIID^* (antca, p. 3G6).— Group ERIONOTAEIA (aiitea, p. 392). 



Genus PLASTINGIA {antea, p. 396). 

 2. Plastingia hieroglyphica. (Tab. XLIV., fig. 25.) 



Phistingia Hieivyli/phka, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 511, n. 2 ; Lep. Ex. p. 171, t. 59, f. 12 (1874). 



"Wings above black; front wings with a spot at the base, two at the middle of the wing, and four 

 across the disc, the uppermost oblique and divided into four parts by the subcostal and discoidal branches, 

 the third bifid, slanting towards the lower end of the first, the second small, between the first and third, 

 the fourth near the anal angle, divided by the submedian nervure ; hind wings with a large basal spot, 

 a streak and two small spots on the inner margin, two spots at the apex, a large triangular spot on the 

 disc, and another at the anal angle, all deep orange ; body brown, spotted with orange ; abdomen with 

 orange rings. + Wings below, almost as above, but paler; body greyish, with mesial yellow stripe." 



Exp. wings, " 1 inch, 6 lines." 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Perak (coll. Dist.). — Borneo; Sarawak (Lowe — coll. Godm. & Salv.). 



* Mr. Dohei-ty states that " a kiud of hermaphroditism seems to occur in the Hesperiida;. From the body of (apparent) 

 males of Suastus eltola and of Coladenia dan, botli having perfect prehensurs of the form characteristic of their respective 

 species, I obtained one or two well-developed eggs exactly similar to those taken from the females of the same species. Also 

 from a male of Suastus toona (the egg of that species being, except for this, unknown to me) I obtained a single immatm-e 

 blood-red egg. I have not obtained this in any of the higher groups of butterflies" (Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vol. Iv. p. 113 

 (18SG). 



f The body of the specimen figiu-ed was unfortunately mutilated, and therefore had to be sketched under the artist' s 

 imagiuation, without showing these black markings. 



