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THE COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA 



(INCLUDING THOSE MET WITH IN THE HILL STATIONS 

 OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY). 



T. R. Bell, i.f.s. 



Part IX. 



(Continued from page 330 of Volume XX.) 



With Plates D 1 and I/'. 



Family— PAPILLIONID.E. 



Only one genus . . . . . . . . . , PAPILIO. 



There are two well marked divisions of the genus as composed of the 

 species which interest these papers ; the one composed of butterflies pro- 

 tected by smell and the other not. These divisions are well marked also by 

 the form of the larvse which, in the first, are abnormal in having the body 

 provided with conical, fleshy tubercles not present in any of the others 

 except one. Curiously enough, this particular one, clytia, has the imagines 

 dimorphic, i.e., of two forms varying in colour and general appearance, 

 both minicking Danaine species, the one a Euplcea, the other a Danais (pro- 

 bably D. limniace) ; the pupa is likewise of altogether an abnormal form, 

 looking more like a bit of dead stick than anything else. The members of 

 the first division are Papilio minos (generally known as Ornithoptera minos), 

 P. hector and P. aristolochice, of which the last two are further distinguished 

 from all the rest by the males being without the anal claspers so 

 conspicuous in most others of the genus. 



A. Hindwing without tails or well developed tails. 



a. Hindwing broad and evenly rounded with 



no blue band or spots on disc of upperside 



of both wings. 



a 1 . Size very large, 5"*5 to 7". Forewing 



black, hindwing yellow . . . . . . minos. 



b 1 . Size o""5 to 6"'l. Forewing black, hind- 

 wing Cambridge-blue . . . . . . polymnestor (PI. D4. 



e\ Size 3" to •£"• 75. Underside hindwing with figs. 27 S , 27« 2 ). 

 the marginal interspaces between the 

 black veins yellow or orange bordered 

 inwardly each by a black line. 



