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moves at all heights ; rest, when drinking, with the wings closed 

 over the back and has a skipping flight very similar to the next 

 two species. It is found in Ceylon and Southern India in the hills 

 ^nd jungles. The foodplant of the larva is the anonaceous Sacco]je- 

 .falum tomentosum. Hooker, and XJnona Laiuii, Hooker, upon which 

 it has been found ; and doubtless other Unonce. 



There are many sub-species extending throughout India, Burma, 

 into China, down through Tenasserim and the whole of the 

 Malayan Region, to Australia ; also north to Japan. Fainlio 

 ■evemon Boisd. from Malacca, Sumatra, Java, Borneo is very like it ; 

 ;also p. ]3rodes, Grose Smith, from North Borneo, and Kina Balu ; 

 P. hathydes, Zink, from Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Assam, Burma ; 

 P. isander, Godm. and Salv., from the Solomon Islands, &c., 

 appi'oaches P. sarpedon, L,, forming the connecting link betv^•een 

 it and P. eurypijlus according to Rothschild. 



Diagrammatic transverse sections of segments 2 to S. 





Seaf:5 



Papilio doson, 1st stage. 



O 



2 



Papilio doson, dorsal plan. 



94. Papilio sarpedon, Lin. — Male and female upperside : opaque black. 

 Fore and the hind wings crossed from above the tornal area on the hind 

 wing to near the apex on the f orewing by a semi-hyaline, broad, pale-blue, 

 medial band which is broadest in the middle, more or less greenish and 



