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conical, outwardly emarginate, elongate white spots followed by a 

 subterminal series of white lunules with spots of the black ground- 

 colour that succeed them as on the fore wing. Cilia black, largely 

 alternated with white in the interspaces. Underside similar with 

 similar markings, but the ground-colour a rich hair-brown, the 

 markings larger ; the irroration of yellowish-brown scales confined 

 to the apical area on the fore wing but spread all over the hind 

 wing except on the white markings. Antenna3, head, thorax and 

 abdomen dark brownish black, head and abdomen minutely speckled 

 with white ; beneath, the white specklings larger and more 

 numerous. $ closely resembles the 6 but the ground-colour is 

 distinctly paler, the white markings larger, and the irroration of 

 yellowish- brown scales more conspicuous. 



Exp. 6 $ n 6-124 mm. (4-18-4-88"). 



Hab. Southern India : Kanara ; Mysore ; the Mlgiris and Tra- 

 vancore. 



Larva fy pupa. " A larva found feeding on Glycosmis pentapliylla, 

 Correa, was taken for a dull specimen of P. polytes, Linn., and only 

 when it became a chrysalis did we note that it was different. The 

 chrysalis differs from that of P. erithonius, Cramer ( = P. demoleus, 

 Linn.) chiefly in that it is more bent back in the thorax, and 

 that the apex of the thorax is produced into a short blunt parallel 

 apipedal process ; it is coloured like that of P. polytes, Linn." 

 (Davidson, Bell $ AitTcen.) 



AGESTOR GROUP. 



c? 2 . Fore wiug elongate ; costa straight for two-thirds of its 

 length from base, then curved to apex ; apex obtuse but well- 

 marked; termen very oblique, from very slightly concave or sinuous 

 to convex ; tornus broadly rounded ; dorsum straight, about two- 

 thirds the length of the costa; cell long, well over half length 

 of wing ; vein 8 out of basal fourth of 7. Hind wing : costa long, 

 equal in length to the dorsum, slightly arched ; apex obtuse ; 

 termen slightly arched and sinuous ; tornus rounded or angulate ; 

 cell more or less rounded at apex : upper discocellular comparatively 

 short, about half the length of the subcostal vein. Antennae very 

 short, about one-third the length of the fore wing, club slight, 

 gradual ; head, thorax and abdomen comparatively long, not massive. 



The forms in this and in the Clytia group are wonderfully like 

 some of the protected Danaine forms. It is remarkable that the 

 difference in the markings on the upperside of the hind wings 

 in Euplcea dione, Westwood, and Papilio slateri, Hewitson, from 

 Sikhim and Assam and their respective races, E. limboryi, Moore, 

 and P. tavoyanus, Butler, should be identical; the subterminal 

 series of elongate white spots on the upperside of the hind wing is 

 barely indicated or wanting in the former two, but present and 

 conspicuous in the latter two. 



