( 004 ) 



diliiteil florsad at tlic cnrvatiii'o ; steniite nearly like that, of Deilepldla nerii in 

 lairral ami vciilral asjicct. ('Jasper with more than twelve friction-scales, which 

 arc pointed ; harpo ending in a long and pointed hook (PI. XLVIII. f. 28). Tenis- 

 shcath (PI. LIV. f. "..'4) prodnced apicaliy into a blunt jjrocess directed distad, 

 hearing at the right side a non-dentate projection pointing proxiruad, and at the left 

 side a short process ending in some teeth. 



?. Eighth tergite feebly chitinised niesially, sinuate. Vaginal plate meni- 

 branaceons, except rounded-triaiignlar postvaginal part ; oritice large, without sj)eciiil 

 armature. 



Larva brown or green ; horn long and straiglit in tirst stages, simjily curved in 

 later stages ; eight eye-spots of equal size from third to tenth segments, all with 

 white centre, which is surrounded by a blue (in green form) or green (in brown form) 

 ring; a pale line from fourth ocellus to eleventh segment; sides below this line 

 pale in brown form ; pale oblique ventro-Iateral bands, the first beginning ventrally 

 on i'ourth segment and extending backwards to the fourth eye-spot (described from 

 drawings by Miss Barnard). 



Pupa with a series of black stigmatical sjiots ; cremaster see above. 



Jluh. Oriental Region : Ceylon to Tahiti. 



Two subspecies : 



a. Cli. erotns erotKS. 



Spliinx crolua Cramer, I.e. 



Chrniius erottis, Hlibner, I.e. 



C'lioerocampn eratiis, Cram., v;ir. (iiii/diiiniicii.-^is Kirby, Tntiix. Eiit. Soc. Lund. p. 242 (I'^^TT) 



(Andamans). 

 Cliiieriiraiiqia erotiix, Snellen, Tijdxrhi-. Kid. .xxii. t. (id. n. 14 (1S77) (S. Celebes). 

 Vlmiiiimiiipd imdamuneti/iis, Waterhouse, .lid Ident. Jn«. ii. t. 141. f. 1 (1884). 

 T/icri'lm eruttts v.ar. c. Choer. erniioi, var. innhnndiiciixix Kirby, Cal. Lep. Iht. i. p. iV/.K n. 113 (189-'). 



d'?. Underside less reddish than in the Papuan form, though not in all 

 specimens ; marginal baud of hindwing broad in ? , dark cinnamon-rufous proximally. 



Hab. Southern and eastern j)arts of the Indo-Malayan Subregion. 



In the Tring Museum 20 specimens from: Ceylon; Andamans; JNicobars; 

 Sarawak (Pryer) ; Mt. Gede, Java ; Toll- Toll, N. Celebes, Nov. Dec. 1S'J5 

 (Fruhstorfer) ; Tambora, Sambawa, 25U0 — 4UUU feet, June 189(3 (\V. Doherty) ; 

 Sumba. 



b. CIi. erotas eras. 



*lhdri,/idii. fra.s Boisduval, in r»y. .[s/r,il„h,\ l.eji. p. 185. n. 4 (1832) (Tahiti ;— coll. Charles 



Oberthiir) ; Feisth., in Gue'r., .!/(/</. ZvnI. ix. f,is. t. 21. f. 2 (183'J) ; id., in ]'(ji/. Favorite, Zonl. 



Up. p. 19. t. .'"'. f. 2 (1839). 

 Clidenx-anqxi rfo^/.v, Walker, Lid Lep. /«.<. B. .1/. viii. p. 14G. n. 34 (1850) (Australia; Navigator I.); 



Koch, liidu-Ai(.4r. Lep. Fauna p. 63 (1805) (= xnpor = eroides) ; id., Stttt. Ent. Zeil. .\x.\ii. 



p. 239 (1871) ; Butl., Trans. Zoid. Sue. Land. ix. p. 500. n. 70 (1877) (Australia ; Solomon Is ); 



Tepp., Nat. In.-:. S. .In.-itr. ii. p. 15 (188 ?) ; Pagenst., Jahrb. Nans. Ver. Nat. xli. p. 108. n. 20« 



(1888) (Amboina) ; Mist., J'roe. Rmj. Soc. Qneendd. viii, p. 14. n. 22 (1891) (Newcat.tle ; 



Brisbane to C. York) ; Lidg., Tran^f. Aii4. Lep. p. 12 (1898) (life hist.) ; Pagenst., in Chun, 



Zn„l. xii. 29. p. 13. 11. K (1900) (Raliim, viii. ; N. Lanenberg ; N. Georgia). 

 Darapsa eras, Walker, I.e. viii. p. 180. n. 2 (18.56). 

 Gnatholhhbun croto«/e.v Wallengren, Wieit. Fid. .\lon. iv. p. 43. n. 44 (1800) (Au.stralia) ; id., Eexa 



Fuf/eiiie p. 362. t. 7. f. 4 (1804). 

 Choerncampa cra<».s-, Walker, I.e. xxxv. p. 1852 (1800) (= erulnidex) ; Boisd., Spec. Gen. Lep. Ilet. 



i. p. -250. n. 31 (1875) (N. Caled. ; Tahiti ; Austral.). 

 Chaenieaiiijkt sapor Koch, Stett. Fid. Zeit. xxxii. p. 239 (1871) (Australia). 



