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line on segment 2, another, raised, on each side of this ; another round 

 the spiracular hole of same segment. L : 30mm. ; B : 10mm. 



Habits. — The same as P. minos. Young larva lives on under- 

 sides of leaves, where the egg is laid ; afterwards sometimes on 

 stems, &c. Pupation as in that species also, the loop equally lax. 

 The food-plant is A. indica also. The imago or butterfly has also 

 very similar habits except that it does not fly so high as a rule, is 

 very much commoner and is as much an insect of the Plains as of 

 the jungles and hills. It is found in Bengal, Orissa, Chittagong ; 

 in the southern half of Peninsular India and Ceylon. In southern 

 India it is one of the commonest butterflies of the Plains. The 

 figure in the coloured plate is good. The red on the underside of 

 hind wing is hardly bright enough. 



79. Papilio aristolochiae, Fabr. (PL Dl, fig. 24.) — Male upperside velvety 

 black. Forewing with well-marked, pale streaks along veins on the discal 

 area that do not reach the terminal margin ; the latter broadly velvety 

 black ; the streaks beyond end of cell extended into its apex. Hindwing 

 with elongate, white, discal markings in interspaces 2-5 beyond the cell. 

 In dry-weather specimens these markings are very short and do not nearly 

 reach the bases of the interspaces ; beyond these a curved series of sub- 

 terminal, lunular markings in interspaces 1-7 dull crimson irrorated with 

 black scales, the spot in interspace 1 large, irregular, diffuse, margined 

 interiorly with white. Underside ground-colour and markings similar, but 

 the red sub-terminal spots on the hindwing much brighter, not irrorated 

 with black scales, better defined, the anterior four sub-quadrate, the next 

 two crescentric, sometimes quadrate also, the spot in interspace 1 triangu- 

 lar and pointed. Antennae, thorax and abdomen above to close to end 

 black ; the head, sides of prothorax above and of the whole of the thorax 

 and abdomen beneath vermillion-red ; last segment yermillion-red. — Female 

 similar ; differs from the male only in the comparatively broader wings ; 

 this is most conspicuous in the forewing. Exp. 76-114mm. 



Larva. — Head black, shiny, round from front view, half hidden. Segment 

 2 identical with that of P. hector. The larva is like P. hector in everyway, 

 but differs in the following points : lateral tubercle on segment 5 is absent: 

 all tubercles are shorter and there are no flesh-coloured spots. On seg- 

 ment 11 is a white spot at anterior base of sub-dorsal tubercle, and an 

 indication of one in the same position on segment 12. On segment 8 is a 

 small white spot at posterior, and a larger one at anterior base of sub- 

 dorsal tubercle. The posterior half of segment 7 is pure white, the border 

 of white being irregular anteriorly, the band extending to just below 

 spiracular tubercle, and as an included black spot between spiracular 



