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plains. It does not go to water like the last few species ; at least 

 it is rarely met with amongst the drinking crowds in the nallas and 

 on roads in the hot weather, though it may always be found at 

 flowers all the year round in the Bombay Presidency ; it flies 

 earlier and remains later on the wing than any of the others.. 

 Like them, it is restless and is not easy to capture except at 

 flowers. The foodplants of the larva are all anonaceous. It has- 

 been bred on 8accojpetalum tomentosum, Hooker; Anona squamosa, Ij.;. 

 A. reticulata, L.; Polyalthia longifoKa, Benth. and Hooker ; JJnona 

 discolor, Vahl. ; and doubtless feeds upon most Anonacea;. Anona 

 is the Custard Apple or Sitaphal of India. The distribution of 

 P. agamemnon is more or less throughout India, Burma, extending" 

 to China and through the Malayan Region to the Philippines, and 

 north to Japan. The subspecies ligatus, Rothsch., goes intO' 

 Australia ; decor atus, Bothsch., inhabits the Nicobars and Anda- 

 mans ; salomomis of the same author extends to the Solomon, 

 Islands. 



In the coloured figure (fig. 29, PL 5), the whole thing is agaiK 

 too red in shade, the upperside is not black enough, the colouring 

 of the underside not delicate enough. 



(2^0 he continued.) 



