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Caterpillar. — Cylindrical, segments of equal thickness ; head larger than second 

 segment, face, sides, and vertex spined ; body armed with a subdorsal row of long 

 branched-spines and two lateral rows of much shorter branched-spines, those of the 

 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th and 13th of the subdorsal row shorter than the others. 



Chrysalis. — Somewhat elongate ; wing cases prominent ; with an elevated 

 forward-projecting conical anterio-dorsal prominence and a conical thoracic 

 prominence ; head-piece projected in front and acutely bifid. 



Type. — A. Perius (Leucothoe). 



ATHYMA PERIDS (Plate 260, fig. 1, larva and pupa, la, b, c, d, ^ ? ). 



Papilio Perius, Limubus, Syst. Nat. x. p. 471 (1758); id. Mus. Ulricse, p. 261 (1764). Edit. xii. I, 



pt. 2, p. 766 (1767). 

 AtTiyma Perius, Amivillius, Kongl. S. V. Akad. Handl. xix. pp. 68, 69 (1882). Distant, Ehop. Malay. 



p. 157, pi. 16, fig. 2, S (1883). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 166, pi. 20, fig. 89, ? (1886). 

 Papilio Leucothoe, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 478 (1758). Clerek, Icones Ins. iii. (inedit.), pi. 5, fig. 4, 



dextercB. Fabrioius, Syst. Eiit. p. 508 (1775). 

 Acca Leucothoe, Hiibner, Verz. Schmett. p. 44 (1816). 

 Nymphalis Leucothoe, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 430 (1823). 



Bihlis Leticothot, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, pi. 8, fig. 3, 3a, larva and pupa (1829). 

 Limenifis Leucothoe, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. pi. 4, fig. 5 (1836). Westwood, Donovan's Ins. China, 



p. 65, pi. 35, fig. 3 (1842). 

 Atliyma Leucothoe, Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 273 (1850). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. 



p. 170, pi. 5, fig. 11, 11a, laroa and pupa (1857). Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 61 



(1869). Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. pi. 51. 

 Pajnlio Hylas, ? , Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 486 (1758). 



Papilio Erodne, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 203, fig. E. F. (1779). Herbst, Pap. pi. 240, fig. 5, 6 (1798). 

 Najas Erosine, Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. i. pi. 63 (1806-16). 

 Papilio Leucothea, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 96 (1781). 

 Papilio Polyxena, Donovan, Ins. China, pi. 37, fig. 4 (1799). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside dark fuliginous-black ; markings white ; 

 cilia alternated with white. Forevnng with a white basal streak and two spots 

 within the cell ; a subtriangular larger spot at end of the cell ; a transverse discal 

 excurved series of seven spots, the two upper elongated and narrow, the others 

 increasingly oblong, the third and fourth smallest ; followed by a submarginal 

 undulated row of six very small more or less lunate spots, the upper five being 

 disposed obliquely outward, and the lower inward, the upper spot sometimes, and 

 the lower always, duplex ; beyond is a marginal row of very indistinctly-defiued 

 slender suUied-whitish lunules. Eindwing crossed by a broad white inner-discal 

 band and a narrower submarginal macular band, the latter being inwardly bordered 

 by a row of small distinct black spots ; a marginal row of very slender sullied-white 

 lunules. All these markings are larger and broadest in the dry-season brood. 



