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Prioveris, Catopsilia, and 1'. sarpedort, P. ei/rijpi/lvs Jasov and, 

 occasionally, P. dravidarwm, may be seen drinking on patches of 

 •damp sand in the beds of nallas and rivers or. after a shower of 

 rain, on the wet mud of roads in the hot, close days that immedi- 

 ately precede the south-west monsoon. It then rests Avith the 

 wings closed over the back though it exposes them, horizontally 

 outstretched, in the ordinary Papilio style, when resting from 

 flight on a leaf. The foodplant of the caterpillar is Unona Lmvii, 

 Hooker, and it has never been found upon anything else, although 

 there are other Unonce where it has been collected. Vnoria is 

 belonging to the Anonacecu and Lawii is an extensive climbing 

 shrub common in the evergreen forests of Kanara. There are 

 sub-species of this butterfly existing throughout Ceylon, India, 

 Burma and the Malayan Region of which P. antiphates alcihiades 

 is the commonest. Typical P. antiphates is said hy Rothschild to 

 come from Western China and Hainan but Bingham gives it as 

 recorded also from Travancore. It is the butterfly of North 

 Kanara also, where alcihiades does not occur. This insect will 

 not be found in the Plains. P. epaminondas, Oberthiir, with discai 

 black markings on the upperside of the hindwing, comes from the 

 Andamans. P. androcles, Boisd., and P. dorcus, De Haan. are two 

 very fine species from Celebes. 



92. Papiiio nomius, Esper. — Male and female upperside : bluish-white. 

 Forewing : the cell with fi ve broad, transverse, black bands, the basal and 

 iSubbasal bands produced to the dorsum, the medial band generally extend- 

 ed into interspace, the pre-apical ended on the median vein and the fifth 

 or apical from costa along discocellulars extends on both sides of these and 

 ends at lower apex of cell ; beyond the fifth band is a short, transverse, 

 macular band of the ground-colour that terminates on vein -"i, followed by 

 a very broad, black, terminal band that occupies about one-third of the 

 width of the wing and is traversed by a transverse, subterminal series of 

 rounded white spots. Hindwing : ground-colour along dorsum and above 

 vein 7 whitish ; a streak along the dorsimi, a subbasal and an inner, discai, 

 transverse band from costa acros'S cell (sometimes interrupted in the 

 middle), and a very broad, terminal band, black; the former two joined 

 near the tornus by cross, kuiular, black marks, the terminal band traversed 

 by a series of slender white lunules ; a black spot in interspace 1 above the 

 tornus and another small one at base of interspace 4 ; the black at the 

 apices of interspaces 2-4 and the lunules of the ground-colour thereon 



