138 LF.riDOPTEEA INDICA. 



PapiUonidi, Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B. M. p. 1 (1850). Stainton, Manuil Brit. Lep. i. pp. 12, 14 



(1857). 

 Papilionides, Kirby, Eur. Butt. p. 2 (1SG3). 

 Equites, Wallengren, Lep. Scand. pp. 5, 170 (1853), Scudder, Syst. Eevis. Amer. Butt. p. 43 



(1872). 

 Equiiina; Kirby, Allen's Nat. Hist. Butt. ii. p. 249 (189G). 

 Papilionittw (Tribe Troldes), Rippon, Icones Ornith. i. p. 9 (1900). 



Characters of the PAPiLto!\jN.E. 



Imago. — Foreicing subtriangular or triangular, rarely elongate, falcate, or 

 rounded ; subcostal vein five-branched ; cell extending to fully half the wing, 

 always closed ; lower discocellular veinlet appearing as a fourth branch of the 

 median vein ; median and submedian vein connected near the base by a short cross 

 veinlet; submedian with a lower short basal branch extending towards the posterior 

 margin. Hindwing triangular or rounded, sometimes gradually prolonged posteriorly 

 into a broad or slender tail, more often the exterior margin is rounded and more or 

 less scalloped or dentated ; abdominal margin excised, never channelled for the 

 reception of the abdomen ; in the males of some, the abdominal margin is folded over 

 on to the upper surface, and there covers an elongated androconial tuft of hairs ; 

 costal vein emitted upward from the base ; precostal veinlet and an iuterno-basal 

 costal cell always present ; internal vein absent. Bodi/ rather stout ; abdomen 

 elongated ; head large ; palpi short, scaled or hairy ; anteunge generally rather long, 

 club elongated, curved ; legs generally long, powerful, all perfect in both sexes, 

 tarsal claws simple and without appendages, anterior tibife with a stout lateral spur 

 about the middle. 



Egg. — Dome-shaped, flattened at the base, slightly rugose. 



Larva. — Stout, sub-cylindrical or cylindrical ; either furnished with rows of 

 fleshy tubercles or smooth or granulated, sometimes humped towards the head ; 

 prothoracic segment furnished with a forked or two retractile tentacles, or osmateria, 

 which are concealed during repose, but are extended when the animal is irritated, 

 and then exhale a strong aromatic scent. 



Pdpa. — Attached by the tail, generally in an upright position, and secured by a 

 silken girth round the middle of the body ; head bifid, square, or subtruncate. 



Genus ORNITHOPTERA. 



Troides (part), Hubner, Yerz. bek. Schmett. p. 88 (1816). Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 183 (1895). 

 Ornithoptera, Boisduval, Voy. Astr. p. 33 (1832); id. Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 173(1836). Moore, Lep. 



of Ceylon, i. p. 154 (1881). Kirby, Allen's Nat. Hist. Butt. ii. p. 263 (1891). Staudinger and 



Schiitz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 40 (18SG). 



