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THE COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS 

 OF INDIA 



(INCLUDING THOSE MET AVITH IN THE HILL STATIONS 

 OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY). 



BY 



T. R. Bell, I.F.S. 



Part XI. 



(Gontimiecl from ixige o/^/^ of this Volume.^ 



^K^ii-LY—VKPlLlOiaiDM— (continued). 



89. Papilio crino, Fahr. — Like P. buddha but with the green discal band 

 much narrower, especially on the forewing, the male has, generally, woolly 

 scent-streaks on outer portions of veins 2 to 4 of forewing. Forewing in 

 male and female with the transverse, discal band bluish-green, slightly 

 sinuous, curved, narrow, increasing in width from costa to dorsal margin ; 

 more sinuous in the female. Hindwing with the band variable in width, 

 but much broader than on forewing, continued above vein 7 to costa but 

 much narrowed abruptly in that interspace ; tornal ocellus claret-red with 

 a large black centre inwardly edged with blue ; a sub-apical whitish spot ; 

 subterminal diffuse, green lunules in interspaces 2, 3, 4 ; the spatular apex 

 of tail with a patch of bluish-green scales. The whole upperside is irrora- 

 ted on both wings with brilliant green scales but much less densely than on 

 the basal area of the wings of P. buddha. TJnderdde dull pale brown to 

 blackish brown, irrorated with scattered, yellowish scales which, however, 

 on the forewing are absent from a large, triangular, discal patch that lies 

 between the dorsum, the median vein, vein 6 and a line of white lunules 

 that crosses the wing in an outward curve from the upper third of the costa 

 to just before the tornus ; these white lunules are outwardly diffuse and 

 merge gradually into the brown ground-colour. Hindwing : the tornal 

 ocellus much as on the upperside ; an obscure, ill-defined, highly arched, 

 postdiscal, narrow, whitish band from above the tornal ocellus to the costa 

 ending near apex of interspace 7 in a broad, white lunule ; beyond this a 

 double sub-terminal row of somewhat straight, ochreous-white lunules in 

 the interspaces, each lunule of the inner row bordered outwardly with 

 blue, this bordering very faint in some specimens. Cilia of both fore and 

 hind wings brown alternated with white. Antennee, head, thorax and 

 abdomen dark brownish black ; the head, thorax and abdomen above with 

 a sprinkling of glittering green scales. Expanse 100-116 mm. 



