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ocellus black. There are the usual two tubercles on segments 2 and 13. 

 the former small and triangular pointing sideways and forwards, the latter 

 smaller, pointing straight backwards. The colour is a rich glaucous green 

 dorsally, slightly yellowish on the sides; the bands and markings on 

 segments 7-10 are white, blotched with red-brown or brown, generally 

 spottedly, the ventrum in brownish white suffused with red-brown or 

 b:rown. L : 40 when at rest and the B : 8 mm. at middle, a little more at 

 segment 4. This is a moderate-sized larva. 



Pupa. (PI, I, fig. 14ff.) — Is very similar to that of P. daksha, but the apex 

 of the thorax is produced into a short square-topped point which is direct 

 ed forwards and overhangs the front slope. The colour of the pupa is 

 identical with that of P. daksha both when wild and in captivity. L : 

 31mm; B: 12 mm. at broadest part, segment?; greatest H : 9 mm. at 

 segment 7. 



Habits. — The habits of the larva in all its stages are the same 

 as those of daksha and ]jol%jmnestor . The pupation also takes place 

 in the same manner except that the loop is here perhaps not as 

 long as in the other two. The caterpillar is seemingly not very 

 subject to attack by ichneumons though, of coiirse, it suffers 

 occasionally like all butterfly larvas. The imago flies well and 

 strongly, though it rarely rises far from the ground, preferring 

 the shelter of bushes and thick places in the jungles and along 

 hedges, in gardens, &c. ; it eschews open ground though it is 

 found everywhere in India, in the Plains as well as in the 

 hills, in the densest forest in the regions of heaviest rainfall 

 and in the gardens of the driest parts of the country. It is the 

 male thab generally attracts attention, darting across a path 

 and diving into a shady bit of shrubbery or into some thick place . 

 in the underwood, or stopping for a short moment at some flower 

 for a passing drink. The females are somehow much less notice- 

 able. The reason is probably because they keep more to the 

 shady places, fly slower and are nearly always strictly attending 

 to the business of ovipositing. It is a fact that they fly much 

 slower as a practice though they can rival the male in quickness 

 when necessity arises — when, for example, they are attacked or 

 frightened. The resemblance of the polijtes and romulus form o± 

 the females of this butterfly to P. aristolochice and P. hector re- 

 spectively has been alluded to in these papers before. These last 

 two swallow-tails have a habit of flying about slowly (fandiyanus 



