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wherever seen. It does not generally come below 3,000' above sea 

 level. 



86. Papilio tamilana, Moore.- — Very closely resembles P. parts, described 

 above ; but, on the upperside, the upper discal patch on the hindwing is of 

 a paler, more metallic blue and very considerably larger ; it extends from 

 interspace 3 well into interspace 7, from the apex of the cell into 

 interspaces 3, 4 and 5 and from the middle of interspace 6 much further 

 towards the t'ermen than in j)«rz's. Underside sivixil&T to that of paris, but 

 the transverse, postdiscal, pale band on the forewing is conspicuously nar- 

 rower and curved inwards toward the costa. Antennte, head, thorax and 

 abdomen as in paris. Exp. 116-134mm. 



Effff. — The egg is rather small for the insect ; it is ];Terfectly spherical, 

 except that it is slightly flattened where attached to the leaf or stalk or 

 flower bud, &c. It is somewhat shiny, superficially pitted as seen under a 

 lens ; translucent light-green when first laid, soon becoming more opaque 

 and spotted-blotched here and there with brown-red, which colour has a 

 subcutaneous aspect. Diameter : 1" Smm. 



Larva. — In the first stage, on emerging from the egg, it is very 

 like any other larva of the polymnestor-polytes group. It is swollen 

 in segments 3, 4, 5 and has the usual dorsolateral long, fleshy, conical 

 spined tubercle on the front margin of segment 2 and on hinder margin 

 of segment 13 ; a smaller one in middle of segments 3, 4, 5, 12 ; a 

 still smaller one in middle of segments 6-11 ; a supraspiracular, very small 

 one on all segments except 13 with the exception of segments 3, 4 where 

 these are as large as the dorsolaterals of the same segments ; the dorso- 

 laterals and supraspiraculars of segment o are very little longer than the 

 corresponding tubercles of segment 3 ; besides these there is a subdorsal 

 tubercular spot on segments 3-12 bearing a single, erect hair ; there are 

 also the usual subspiracular, tubercular, hair-bearing spots, as well as one 

 on the base of each leg or in that position of the legless segments. The 

 head is roundish, slightly bilobed, flattish on face, set with erect, shott 

 spines all over, shiny black except on vertex where it is greenish-ochreous ; 

 clypeus rather large, triangular. Colour of body is dark olive-green with 

 the dorsa of segments 8-11 ochreous, segment 7 whitish, with three in- 

 cluded spots of body-colour arranged in a triangle and with the white 

 reaching on to segment 6 laterally ; dorsa of segments 4, 5 greenish-ochre- 

 ous ; all tubercles ochreous, those of segments 12, 13 whiter ; the spines of 

 dorsolateral tubercles light, of subdorsal, supraspiracular and subspiracular 

 tubercles black. L : 7mm. ; B : 1- 25mm. 



2nd stage. — The larva has all the tubercles of the first stage, but the 

 dorsolateral ones are relatively reduced in size : that is, although the larva 

 is larger, these tubercles are still the same size ; the spiracular spots are 

 also smaller proportionately ; the subdorsal spots remain about the 



