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much rounded, and almost obtusely angular in the middle ; inner margin short ; cell 

 long and narrowly fusiform; precostal bent upward near its end; costal vein 

 extending close along edge of the margin ; discoceUulars very oblique, upper emitted 

 at some distance before the subcostal branches ; middle median at some distance 

 before lower end of the cell. Bodi/ somewhat slender; abdomen scaly, last segment 

 of female furnished with an anal corneous appendage * ; head small ; eyes prominent, 

 naked; palpi divergent, ascending a little above the head, hairy, apical joint short; 

 antennae rather thick, with a lengthened club; forelegs short, slender ; femur of 

 male densely clothed with short thick hair-scales, tibia and tarsus sparsely clothed 

 with sharp-pointed spiny hairs ; femur and tibia of equal length ; tarsus four jointed ; 

 femur of female densely clothed with shorter thick hair-scales, tibia and tarsus very 

 sparsely clothed with fine longish spiny-scales ; tarsus five jointed, the fifth short, 

 each with a terminal pair of rather long sharp spines. 



Lakva. — Elongated. Head unarmed ; segments armed with a subdorsal and a 

 sublateral row of long sharp-pointed branched-spines, and a lateral row of shorter 

 naked spines. 



Pupa. — Suspended. Elongated, narrow ; head with two short frontal points ; 

 thorax convex and uneven; abdominal segments with a dorsal and two lateral rows 

 of short tubercular-points. 



TvPE.— P. Vesta. 



PAREBA VESTA (Plate 387, fig. 1, larva and j'upa.-f la, b, c, ^, U, e, f, ?). 



Papilio Vesta, FaLriciu?, ^tant. Ins. ii. p. 14 (1"8") ; Ent. Sjst. iii. i. [i. 1G3 (1793). Donovan, 



Ins. of China, pi. .30, fig. 1, ? (1799). 

 ArrwaVesta, Gotlart, Enryc. Meth. ix. p. 233 (1S19). Westwool's Edit. Donuv. Ins. China, p. 58, 



pi. 30, fig. 1, ? . 

 rarcha Vesfa, Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 142 (1818). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. 



p. 136 (1857). Butler, Catal. Fabr. Bntt. Brit. Mus. p. 132 (1869). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1882, p. 243, larva, de Nice'ville, Butt, of India, i. p. 318 (1883). Standinger, Exot. 



Schmett. i. p. 103, pi. 13 (188G). Leech, Butt, of China, etc., i. p. IH (1892). 

 Papilio Terpdchore, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 298, fig. A. R. C. (1782), nee Linn. 

 Telcldnia Issoria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sehmett. p. 27 (1816). 

 Acrcea anomala, KoUar, HUgel's Kaschmir, iv. pt. 2, p. 425, pi. 3, fig. 3, 4 (1814). 



Imago. — Both sexes variable. Male. Upperside yellowish-ochreous ; the extreme 



* Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, who has reared this butterfly from larv», in Sikkim, informed me that tlie 

 virgin female does not possess the anal pouch ; the pouch being produced, or caused by the action of the mali', 

 during or immediately after coition, and is only present after that operation. 



t These figures, of larva and pupa, are copies, of HorsSeld's drawings, and represent those of the Java 

 form. 



