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more than would be expected, when the wings are closed over 

 the back. The proboscis of persimilis is very bright yellow 

 in life, and when extended, and probably distended, in drink- 

 ing, is quite conspicuous. In the dried specimens the yellow 

 colour fades to a considerable extent. There is no yellow on 

 the underside of persimilis, of which D. linmiace, Cram., is 

 the model (as is rendered probable by the resemblance to the 

 pattern around the cJ scent-glands). In P. jermyni, which is 

 evidently a direct mimic of phryxe, there is a good deal of 

 yellow on the h.-w. under surface. It is not suggested that 

 the yellow colour of the proboscis has been evolved for the 

 purpose; all Parhestinas have it in common with Hestinas 

 and the yellow Dilipas. Its use in mimicking Aporia has 

 possibly preserved it. It does not occur in Euripus. 



" 4. Synaposematic associations of blue Euploeas, &c., taken 

 on the same day. — I am sending you one or two sets of mimetic 

 species caught on the same date, as I saw in your separata 

 you were collecting such groups. All are common, but you 

 may not have the following five blue Euploeas taken together : 

 mulciher, Cram., klugii, Moore, Jiopei, Feld., harrisi, Feld., 

 and splendens, Butl. Mulciher was in swarms, but it was 

 quite difficult to get the others, especially the last two, out 

 of the throng. I only got one Papilio telearchus, Hew. I am 

 sorry I haven't got Byblia ilithyia, Drury, to complete the 

 other little associations of Telchinia violae, F., and EutJialia 

 nais, Forster, from Central and S. India. I have never found 

 it common and have only two bad specimens, both from 

 Sangor, Central Provinces." 



Prof. Poulton when exhibiting the specimens sent by Col. 

 Jermyn remarked that the example of Papilio agestor govindra 

 from Murree was transitional between the five from Mussoorie 

 and the typical agestor, not only in the development of the 

 diagonal f.-w. marking, but also in the amount of brown 

 pigment in the h.-w. and in the size of the specimen. It 

 would be interesting to compare a long series from these two 

 localities. The associated characters in which the Mussoorie 

 specimens differed from the typical agestor rendered it far 

 more probable that the butterflies from this locality were 

 truly ancestral than that they had undergone reversion. 



