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b 3 . Full grown larva with lateral ocellus 

 on segment 4 black, a white line 

 across centre and bordered brown in 

 front, blue behind, also a large larva, polymnestor . 

 c 3 . Full grown larva with lateral ocellus 

 black, not quite as above, very much 

 smaller . . . . . . . . . . polytes . 



b. Full grown larva green, not marked by bands. 

 a 1 . The ocellus on segment 4 orange-brown, 

 small and not well developed, the crest 

 joining them white . . .. .. .. tamilana. 



b 1 . The ocellus on segment 4 otherwise, the 



crest joining them yellow. . . . . . buddJka (crino). 



Section II. — Larvse with many conical, fleshy, pointed tubercles. 

 A. — Conical tubercles not red-tipped ; the larva 



with broad creamy markings . . . . . . clytia. 



B. — Conical tubercles red-tipped ; the larva with 

 no yellow markings ; marking, if present, 

 white or pinkish. 



a. No band on segment 7 . . . . . . . . hector. 



b. A band on segment 7. 



a}. (The front margin of segment 2 rosy- 

 white . . . . . . . . . . pandiyanux. 



1?. The front margin of segment 2 not white. 



a". Colour more or less evenly black . . aristolochice . 



b". Colour dark rose-brown, marbled satin- 

 grey . . . . . . . . . . mlnos. 



Many of these larvse are spined when they first emerge from the 

 egg ; some of them very profusely so ; the spines are modified in 

 the later stages into small conical tubercles or fleshy knobs on a 

 few segments, disappearing completely on others ; those on which 

 they subsist always are segments 2 and 14- next on segment 4, 

 then 9. The young larvse of section I, sub-section B, resemble 

 bird-droppings in their colouration ; those of Section II, sub-section 

 A also, though in a less degree. 



The pupse are also somewhat variable, though all built on the 

 same general plan with the exception of that of P. clytia, alluded 

 to " before as resembling a piece of cylindrical stick with the end 

 broken off. In the others, that of the hector-aristolochice type has 

 dorsolateral, small, flattened expansions to some of the abdominal 

 segments ; minos is like the demolius-jwlymnestor-polytes form. 

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