SO PAPILIONID.I:. 



until I had caught and examined it, mistook it for an extra- 

 ordinarily large specimen of Euplcea rliadamanthus. It is appar- 

 ently sometimes, notwithstanding its disguise, attacked and 

 preyed on by the Pigmy Falcon (Microhierax casrulescens), as 

 in the nest-hole of a pair of these birds I once found the fragment, 

 of a fore wing of a butterfly which was identified by the late 

 Mr. de Niceville as belonging to this form of P. caunus. 



ELEPHENOR GBOTJP. 



c? 5 . Shape of wings and neuration somewhat as in the 

 Protenor group, but termen of hind wing more deeply scalloped 

 and proportionately somewhat broader. Fore wing in <5 with 

 secondary sexual characters on the upperside in the form of woolly 

 adnervular stripes in the lower interspaces. 



Key to the forms of tJie Elephenor Group. 



a. Hind wing upperside : \vithout any subterminal 



series of lunules P. ekphenor, p. 80. 



b. Hind wing upperside : with a subterruinal series 



of purplish -blue lunules P. doddsi, p. 81. 



535. Papilio elephenor, Doubleday, A.M.N.H. xvi, 1845, p. 305; 

 Woodc-Mason 8f de N. (Papilio Pangeranopsis), J. A. S. B. 1886, 

 p. 374 ; Doherty, J. A. S. B. 1889, p. 130; Rothsch. Nov. Zool. ii, 

 1895, p. 378 ; Moore (Pangeranopsis), Lep. Ind. \i, 1903, p. 59, 

 pi. 489, fig. 2 cJ . 



rf . Upperside : dull black. Fore wing with an irroration of 

 brilliant green scales that form cellular and internervular streaks. 

 Hind wing : anterior half to nearly the median vein and above 

 vein 5 irrorated with brilliant blue scales that become gradually 

 sparse towards and cease entirely along the costal margin ; 

 posterior half irrorated with brilliant green scales ; tornus with a 

 small claret-red patch touched above with a few violet scales and 

 also with an admarginal dusky black spot. Cilia brown alternated 

 with white. Underside black. Fore wing with very broad and 

 prominent cellular and internervular pale streaks, the costal 

 margin and the basal half of interspaces 1 a and 1 distinctly 

 black. Hind wing : a series of claret-red subterminal lunules, 

 two side by side in each interspace, all more or less irrorated 

 inwardly with violet scales ; at the tornal angle these lunules form 

 a conspicuous oblong patch that stretches a short way along the 

 <lorsum and bears a subbasal and a subapical black spot. Antennae, 

 the thorax and abdomen narrowly along the middle black ; head 

 pinkish red ; abdomen on the sides buff-coloured. $ . " Agrees 

 with the d 1 . The anal (tornal) red mark on the hind wings 

 above is larger, rounded, marginal, and includes a small black spot, 

 the outer margin (termen) of the hind wing is distinctly sinuate 

 between the median veins (veins 2, 3, 4), and at the end of the 



