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PAPILIONID^E. 



Fig. 23. 



A. Papilio nonius, f . 



B. Underside : anterior portion 



of hind wing. 



the dorsum, the medial band generally extended into interspace 2, 

 the preapical ended on the median vein, and the fifth or apical 

 from costa along the discocellulars extends on both sides of these 

 and terminates at lower apex of cell ; beyond the fifth band is 

 a short macular transverse bar of 

 the ground-colour that terminates 

 on vein 5, followed by a very broad 

 black terminal band that occupies 

 about one-third of the width of the 

 wing and is traversed by a transverse 

 subterminal series of rounded spots 

 of the ground-colour. Hind wing : 

 ground-colour along dorsum and 

 above vein 7 whitish ; a streak 

 along the dorsum, a subbasal and 

 an inner discal transverse band from 

 costa across cell, and a very broad 

 terminal band, black ; the former 

 two joined near the torn us by cross 

 lunular black marks, the terminal 

 band traversed by a series of 

 slender lunules of the ground- 

 colour ; a small black spot in inter- 

 space 1 above tornus and another 



at base of interspace 4 ; the black at the apices of interspaces 2 to 

 4 and the lunules of the ground-colour thereon suffused with 

 grey ; tail black, edged and tipped with white. Underside white, 

 the black markings very similar but of a bronze-brown with the 

 following exceptions : Fore wing : extensions below the median 

 vein of the basal, subbasal, and median transverse bands crossing 

 the cell, and the inner portion below vein 4 of the terminal broad 

 band, black : on the hind wing the inner discal band is broken, 

 irregular and black, and is bordered by a series of red spots 

 outwardly edged with black ; the subterminal series of lunules of 

 the ground-colour are broadly edged on the outer side with black ; 

 the grey patch in the caudal region is replaced by ochraceous grey. 

 Antennae black ; head, thorax and abdomen creamy white, with a 

 medial broad longitudinal stripe ; beneath, the abdomen with 

 lateral black stripes. 



Exp. 3 5 68-95 mm. (2-68-3-7S"). 

 Hob. Sikhim ; Central and Southern India ; Ceylon. 

 1 have, following Rothschild, kept this form as distinct from 

 P. aristeus, Cramer, but in my opinion, like anticrates, Doubleday, 

 and hermocrates, Felder, it is merely a geographical race of aristeus. 

 Larva. " Not so thick proportionally at the fourth segment as 

 those of the last three (i. e. agamemnon, sarpedon, doson\ and is 

 somewhat quadrangular. It has four pairs of spines which are 



small but sharp. The most usual colour is black, banded 



on the sides with narrow white stripes, except on the first three 



