( 504 ) 



dilated dorsad at the curvature ; steruite nearly like that of ]>cilciiliihi iifirii in 

 lateral and ventral aspect. Chisper with more than twelve friction-scales, which 

 are pointed ; harpe ending in a long and jiointed hook (PI. XLVIII. f. 28). Penis- 

 sheath (PI. LIV. f. 24) produced apically into a blunt process directed distad, 

 bearing at the right side a non-dentate projection pointing ]iroxiuiad, and at the left 

 side a short process ending in some teeth. 



?. Eighth tergite feebly chitiniscd mesially, sinuate. Vaginal plate mem- 

 branaceous, e.Kceiit rounded-triaugnlar postvaginal jiart : orifice large, without speci;il 

 armature. 



Larva brown or green ; horn long and straight in first 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 eleveuth segment ; sides below this line 

 pale in brown form ; pale oblique ventro-lateral bauds, the first beginning ventrally 

 on fourth segment and extending backwards to the fourth eye-spot (descrilied from 

 drawings by i\Iiss Barnard). 



Pnpa with a series of black stigmatical spots ; cremaster see above. 

 JIah. Oriental Region : Ceylon to Tahiti. 

 Two subspecies : 



a. til. crotuH erot/is. 



Si/lihix erotus Cramer, l.c. 



Clirniiiis eraliix, Hiibner, I.e. 



Chucracampa erotus, Cram., var. iiiiihimiiiiciixi" Kirby, Tniiix. Ent. Sue. Lund p. 'IVl (1*^77) 



(Andamans). 

 Chucruramjm erotus, Snellen, Tijdschr. Ent. .xxii. t. (iU. n. 14 (1«77) (S. Celebes). 

 Clmcriicampa andamaneusis, Waterhoase, Aid liknt.dus. ii. t. 141. f. 1 (1884). 

 Thereim erotus var. c. Choer. emtus, vur. ,im!iimanensh Kirby, Cut. Lep. llel. i. p. iJ'i'.l. n. HI! (189-'). 



(J S . Underside less reddish than in the Pajiuan form, though not in ;ill 

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



JIab. Southern and eastern parts of tiie Indo-Malayan Subregion. 



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

 Sarawak (Pryer) ; Mt. Cede, Java ; Toli-Toli, N. Celebes, Nov. Dec. 18'J5 

 (Fruhstorfer) ; Tambora, Sambawa, 2oU0— 4(ino feet, June 1896 (W. Doherty) ; 

 Snmba. 



b. Ch. erotus eras. 



*l)nlri,hil,i eras Boisduval, in Voi/. Astrolabe, Up. p. 185. n. 4 (1832) (Tabiti ;-coll. Charles 



Oberthiir) ; Feisth., in Gue'r, Maij. Zool. ix. Iiis. t. 21. f. 2 (1839) ; id., in 1'..//. Favorite, Z»m. 



Up, p. 19. t. 5. f. 2 (1839). 

 Clmrrommpa ov.(».--, Walker, List hep. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 146. n. 34 (1850) (Australia; Navigator I.); 



Kocb, Indo-Anstr. Lep. Fauna p. 53 (18C>5) (= sapor = cn/iv/cs) ; id., Stdl. Ent. Zeil. xxxn. 



p. 239 (.1871) ; Butl., Trans. ZooL Hoe. Lond. ix, p. m\. n. 76 (1877) (Australia ; Solomon Is ); 



Tepp., Nat. Ins. .S. Au.str. ii. p. 15 (188 V) ; Pagenat., Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Nut. xli. p. 108. n. 2IJ8 



(1888) (Amboina) ; Misk., /'ror. Roy. Soc. Quemsld. viii. p. 14. n. 22 (1891) (Xewcastle ; 



Brisbane to C. York) ; Lidg., Trans/. Ausl. Lep. p. 12 (1898) (life hist.) ; Pageust., in Chun, 



Zool. xii. 29. p. 13. n. H (19ilO) (Ralum, viii. : N. Lanenlierg ; N. Georgia). 

 Darapsa eras. Walker, I.e. viii. p. 186. n. 2 (1856). 

 Gnathotldihns erotoides Wallengren, Wien. Ent. .Uon. iv. p. 4.3. n. 44 (1860) (Australia) ; id., hesa 



Eiiijenie p. 362. t. 7. f. 4 (18114). 

 ChMroeampa erotus. Walker, Le. xxxv. p. 18.52 (ISUC) {=. erntoidcs) ; Boisd., Spec. Geii. Lrp. Hel- 



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

 Chaeroeampa sapor Koch, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxxii. p. 239 (1871) (Australia). 



