296 Lloyd's natural history. 



wings have a curved creamy-white band running from the 

 costa nearly to the anal angle, which is marked with a red 

 spot. On the under side, the white band of the hind-wings 

 has disappeared, but there is a row of large red sub-marginal 

 spots, followed within by a row of blue lunules. In the female, 

 the outer part of the fore-wings is grey (whiter beneath), with a 

 dark blotch at the end of the cell, and shading into brown on 

 the margins ; the hind-wings are coloured on both sides 

 nearly as on the under side of the male ; but the whole centre 

 of the wing is filled up with a large irregular sub-triangular 

 space, extending both to the costa and to the inner-margin. 

 " When young, the larvae are brown, with patches of white, and 

 covered with spines ; but when full-fed, they are dull green, 

 with blotches of brown, edged with white on both sides, and 

 the spines much reduced in size. The fourth and fifth seg- 

 ments are considerably thickened, and the caterpillar is soft 

 and flabby to the touch. The chrysalis is green, speckled with 

 black, and is attached to the food-plant " (Anderson and Spry, 

 "Victorian Butterflies," p. 16). The larvae feed on orange, 

 and are sometimes very destructive, and the long rose- 

 coloured rctraclile tentacles emit a disagreeable odour of 

 putrid oranges. 



[lxii.] Laertias, Hiibner. We now come to one of the 

 most splendid genera of Austro-Malayan Eijuitidce^ represented 

 by L. ulysses (Linn.), from Amboina. They measure four 

 inches and upwards across the w^ngs ; the fore-wings are not 

 very long, but rather pointed, the hind margin being regularly 

 oblique ; the hind-wings are long towards the lower part, and 

 strongly dentated, with a long spatulate tail. The wings are 

 black, with a rich cobalt-blue [ atch covering at least the basal 

 half of the wings ; in the female, the blue is much duller, 

 and less extended. 



[lxiii.] ITariimila^ Moore. With this genus, we commence 



