COMMON BUTTERFLIES OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA. 759 



macular anteriorly ; the portion of the band that crosses interspaces 6, 7, 

 8 on the hind wing white ; beyond the band on the hind wing there is a 

 •subterminal line of blue, slender lunules. Underside similar, ground-colour 

 dark brown. Hindwing: a short, comparatively broad, subbasal band from 

 the costa to subcostal vein, and the postdiscal area between the median 

 blue band and the subterminal lunules velvety black traversed by the pale 

 veins and transversely, except in interspaces 6 and 7, by narrow, crimson 

 lines ; lastly, a crimson spot near the tornal angle with an admarginal 

 yellowish- white spot beyond it. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen 

 brown, the head and thorax suffused with greenish grey; beneath the 

 palpi, thorax and abdomen touched with dingy white, the abdomen with 

 two whitish lateral lines on each side. The male has the abdominal fold 

 •of hind wing grey within, furnished with a tuft of long, stiff, white 

 hairs. Expanse 81-95mm. 



Larva. — '"'The young larva is black or dark green, with numerous spines 

 of which those on the metathorax are long and bristly ; when full grown, 

 green, beneath lighter, with a pair of short spines on each of the three 

 thoracic segments and on the last segment ; on the metathorax a yellow 

 transverse band and from the metathorax to the anal segment a yellowish 

 stripe above the legs ; on Machilus oderatissima, Geijera salicifolia, Litsea, 

 Alseodaphne, Sj-c, and especially Camphova officinalis, where this tree has been 

 imported. The yellowish egg is laid singly on the leaves and shoots of the 

 food-plants. " ( Dr. K. Jordan. ) 



Pupa. — '' Pupa green, the thoracic horn slenderer, more pointed and 

 straighter than in the allied species, the lateral ridges extending down- 

 wards from the horn straight, between this carina and the frontal one a 

 very slight, somewhat curved, vertical ridge." 



De Niceville gives a figure of the pupa in his paper " The Butterflies of 

 Mussoorie, " published at page 59o of Vol. XI of this Joiu-nal (the Journal 

 of the Bombay Natural History Society ), and says that the foodplant of 

 the larva is Machilus oderatissima, Nees, Natural Order Laurinecs. He also 

 states that the pupation takes place in June and the imago emerges in the 

 following spring presumably because the climate up there in Mussoorie is 

 very cold during the winter ; so that the butterflies behave like they 

 do at home in England. P. sarpedon occurs throughout Continental India 

 ( except South India and Ceylon ) to Java, the Philippines and Japan ; 

 and has a subspecies, semifasciatus, Honr., in China. 



95. Papilio teredon, Felder ( PI. D .5, fig. 30 c?, 30a $ .—This is a slightly 

 diflerentiated form of the above, distinguished in both sexes by the nar- 

 rower medial band crossing both wings. The colour is brighter, the con- 

 trast between the green of the upper and the blue of the lower portion of 

 the medial band more vivid. Hindwing more produced posteriorly at 

 apex of vein 3 where it forms an elongate tooth or short tail. Expanse 



