44 Mr. Robert Templeton's Notes 



XIII. Notes ujion Ceylonese Lepidoptera. By Robert 

 Templeton, Esq., R.A. 



[Read 5th October, 1846.] 



The lime trees in Ceylon are occasionally nearly destroyed by 

 the caterpillars of the true PapUionidce, namely, Papilto Polym- 

 nestor, rammon, Polydorus and Hector; but most particularly 

 by the caterpillars of P. Pamnion, which strips the trees com- 

 pletely, but this is rare. Very many other Lepidoptera feed 

 likewise on the genus Citrus, but do no harm as far as I have 

 observed. I have both sexes of P. Miitius, the females are larger 

 and the markings more developed. I have plenty of P. Polydorus 

 and also P. Polytes. I have both sexes of P. Pammon ; the male 

 has a little white mark near the anal angle of the posterior wing ; 

 the female an ocellus exactly resembling that of P. Polytes ; all the 

 other markings are the same in both, except in the females they 

 are larger and longer. One half of my specimens of P. Crino ? 

 have the green band exactly divided by the closing nerve of the 

 discoid area ; in the remainder it is broader and quite clear of the 

 nerve, but there is no other distinction that I can observe either 

 in the ocellus of the posterior wings or in the lunules ; the latter 

 variety has the abdomen rather larger and I suspect it to be the 

 female. The male of P. Epiiis is without the blue lunule, the 

 female has it ; and both sexes vary in having or not having one or 

 two spots outside the closing nervure of the discoid cell of this lower 

 wing ; beneath, the markings in both are nearly identical, lunule 

 and all. I have a Diadema intermediate between Bolina and Auge, 

 the female of which has the apical angle of the same colour as 

 the rest of tlie wing, ti'aversed by black veins. I believe the 

 brown specimens of Cethosia to be the males, as the large blue 

 ones have much the most tumid bodies. I have a new beautiful 

 Limenitis ? near Procris, dark purple velvet, paler at the margins 

 of the wings, with red patches across the discoid area, and white 

 spots in a curved fork near the apex ; hind wings with a double 

 row of black spots along the exterior margin band with crimson 

 towards the exterior angle, and a similar dot behind the anal one ; 

 all the spots are crimson beneath except the white ones. Charaxes, 

 Nos. 104 and 105, are certainly sexes of the same species, the 

 latter I think the male;* the pupa case is nearly globular, and is 



* No. 105 is Charaxes Bernhardiis, No. 104 is Charaxfs Psaphon, Westw. 

 Cab. Orient, Ent. pi. 21, fig. sup. 



