274 



10 arid 11 free. Hind wing : suboval, broad ; apex and tornal angle 

 boldly rounded; precostal nervure simple, short, subobsolete, 

 inclined outwards. Antennae about half length of fore wing, 

 gradually thickened to apex, latter subtruncate; eyes naked, 

 prominent ; palpi situated low down on the face, somewhat flat- 

 tened, scaly, clothed with stiff hairs anteriorly and at apex, third 

 joint short ; thorax and abdomen robust ; legs slender ; claspers 

 in <? elongate. 



Key to tlie forms of Hebomoia. 



a. Hind wing : uniform white. 



a'. Upperside fore wing : apical orange patch 



bordered inwardly with black H. glaucippe, p. 274. 



b'. Upperside fore wing: apical orange patch . R ,; 



not bordered inwardly with black australis, p. 275. 



b. Hind wing : not uniform white, terminal halt 



suffused with pure sulphur-yellow H. roepstorji, p. 276. 



656. Hebomoia glaucippe, Linn. (Papilio) Syst. Nat. ed. x, 1758, 

 p 469; Hilbner, Verz. bek. Schmett. 1816, p. 96; Butler, 

 A.M.N. H. (7) i, 1898, p. 290. 



Race australis (PL XVIII, fig. 122). 



Hebomoia australis, Sutler, A. M. N. H. (7) i, 1898, p. 290. 



Hebomoia glaucippe, Moore (nee Linn.}, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 127, 

 pi. 49, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b, $ $ , larva <fe pupa ; Davidson. Bell $ 

 Aitken (nee Linn.), Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x, 1897, p. 572. 



Wet-season brood. J . Upperside: creamy white. Fore wing : 

 the costa narrowly, the apex and terminal margin to middle of 

 interspace 1, black ; an irregular, somewhat sinuous, black band 

 extends obliquely from beyond the middle of the costa across the 

 upper apex of the cell, and meets at interspace 1 the black on 

 the terminal margin ; within the triangle thus formed is enclosed 

 a rich orange-red patch that is traversed by the black veins and 

 bears in interspaces 3 to 6 a postdiscal series of black inwardly- 

 elongated spots. Hind wing : nearly uniform, touched with black 

 on the terminal margin anteriorly and with a conspicuous post- 

 disoal black spot in interspace 7 ; in some specimens one or 

 two smaller spots in continuation of the series in the interspaces 

 below. Underside: white; apical third of the fore wing and the 

 whole of the bind wing mottled with more or less prominent 

 brown strigae and spots ; costa of the fore wing and a fine line 

 that runs from base of the hind wing through the cell, straight to 

 the middle of the terminal margin, brown. Antennas dark brown ; 

 head and thorax anteriorly with reddish-brown pile ; thorax above 

 greyish blue, abdomen white with a bluish tinge ; beneath : head 

 and thorax more or less brownish, abdomen white. . Similar 

 to the tf . Upperside : ground-colour with a slight greenish tinge ; 

 the orange patch on fore wing more restricted ; it consists of a 

 aeries of broad streaks in interspaces 3 to 6 and 10, the outer 

 apices of which are deeply incised by black and with a row of 



