NTMPHALIN^, (Oroup euthaliina.) 55 



Expanse, <? 4, ? 4i^o inches. 



Caterpillae. — Cylindrical ; pale yellowish purplish -brown, darker beneath, 

 with dark brown longitudinal dorsal lines, and transverse white-dotted segmental 

 lines ; head and legs dark brown ; head and anal segment spined ; other segments 

 slightly hairy ; third to twelfth segments armed with erect rather long subdorsal 

 dark purplish branched-spines, which are longest on the 3rd, 4th, 11th and 12th 

 segments. " Feeds on Modecca " (Thwaites). 



Chrysalis. — Boat-shaped ; pale purplish-brown ; head pointed and cleft. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



Distribution and Habits. — " Occurs everywhere. Plains and up to 6000 feet 

 elevation, in forest land, I believe all the year round. A slow flyer, rather shy ; 

 sits on large leaves with wings expanded " (Hutchison). Common at Galle and 

 Kandy (Capt. Wade). Very swift of flight and diJ0&cult to capture (Mack- 

 wood). 



Indo-Malayan Species. — Parthenos Sylla (Papilio Sylla, Donovan, Ins. of China, 

 pi. 38 (1798). Syn. Minetra Gambrisius, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. 

 pi. 51, f. 2 {nee Fabricius). Parth. lilacinus, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1877, 

 p. 544. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 143, pi. xi. fig. 7, ? . de Niceville, Journ. As. 

 Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 414. Male and female. Upperside. Ground-colour darker 

 than in typical P. Gambrisius, all the black markings more intensely defined and 

 broader. Forewing with the semidiaphanous bluish-white discal macular band 

 more widely broken and composed of smaller portions, both the subapical, discoidal, 

 and median, and each broadly divided by black-bordered veins ; the lower discal 

 interarea of the forewing and between the basal, subbasal, and discal band 

 of the hiindwing prominently suffused with deep lilacine-blue. Expanse, cJ 4, 

 ? 4j^ inches. Habitat. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra. — Parthenos Sylvia (Papilio 

 Sylvia, Cramer, Pap. Esot. i. pi. 43, figs. F, G (1776). Habitat. Java. — Parthenos 

 Javaensis, Staudinger, Lep. List, 1896, p. 31. Habitat. Java. — Parthenos Nella, 

 Swinhoe, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1894, p. 429. Syn. ? P. Borneensis, Staudinger, Lep. 

 List (1896), p. 31. Habitat. Sarawak, Borneo. — Parthenos Salentia, Hopfier, 

 Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1874, p. 35. Snellen, Tijd. Ent. 1878, p. 13. Semper, Reise Phil. 

 Lep. p. 97, pi. 19, fig, 1-4, <? ? . Habitat. Philippines. — Parthenos Philippensis, 

 Staudinger, Lep. List (1896), p. 31. Habitat. Philippines. — Parthenos Aruana. 

 Difiers from typical P. Sylvia on the upperside in the ground-colour of the forewing 

 being dark olive-green, except a well-defined area below the median vein, which is, 

 as well as the hindwing, of a cuprescent brown colour ; the transverse series of 

 discal bluish-white spots are also much smaller and wider separated, the posterior 

 spot being very small. On the hindwing the submarginal black band is formed hj 

 a continuous scries of broad lunules. On the underside the ground-colour is 



