142 LKPWOPTERA INDIUA. 



even a third male finds itself drawn under the same influence, and constrained, as it 

 would seem, to follow the same mj'sterious leading under a similar sexual excitement 

 or exaltation" (Dr. Thwaites, MS. Notes). Capt. Hutchison obtained it in the 

 " Western, Central, and Southern Provinces ; plains and hills, in forest and open 

 ground, all the 3'ear." Capt. "Wade found it very common in Kandy. Mr. F. M. 

 Mackwood says it is " abundant in the low country, and the hills up to about 

 4000 feet. It is on the wing all the year round, but March and April are the months 

 when they emerge from the chrysalis " (Lep. Ceylon, i, 155). " Few insects can 

 compare with this species in beauty, as it hovers over the flowers of the Heliotrope, 

 which furnish the favourite food of the butterfly. The larva feeds on the 

 Aristolochia and the Befel leaf, and suspends its chrysalis from its drooping tendrils" 

 (Sir J. Tennent, N. H. Ceylon, 425). 



ORNITHOPTERA MINOS (Plate 419, fig. 1, larva a-ud jmjm ; la, b, c? ? )• 



Papilio Eques Trqjanus Minos, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 4, jil. 195, fig. a, ? (1779). Jablonsky and 



Heriist, Nat. Schmelt. i. p. 206, pi. 4, fig. 2 (1782). Esper, Ausl. Schmett, p. 127, pi. 32, fig. 1 



(1792). 

 Troides Minos, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Suhmott. p. 88 (1816). Eotbsohild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 203 (1895). 

 Papilio Minos, Fekler, Yerh. Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, pp. 291, 334. 

 Ornitlioptera Pumpcus, var. Minos, AVood-Mason, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. Sfj. 

 Ornithoptera Minos, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 5 (1884). Aitken, Journ. Bombay, N. H. Soc. 



1887, p. 35. Davklson and Aitken, id. 1890, p. 361 (larva), id. 189G, p. 376. 

 Papilio {Ornithoptera) Minos, Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 363. Ferguson, J. Bombay 



N. H. Soc. 1891, p. 445. 



JjiAfiO. — Male. Upperside. Forewing rich black, the outer veins from the 

 lower median upward more or less slightly bordered with grey-scaled streaks, these 

 scales at the base of the lower median being mostly yellow ; the end and lower edge 

 within the cell nlso slightly streaked with grey scales. Hindiiring dark or pale 

 golden-yellow ; with a black band extending across extreme base of the cell, along 

 the anterior margin and curving from below the costal vein to one-third of the 

 subcostal, from whence it is conically continued along the outer margin to near the 

 lower median, and thence broadly up the abdominal margin ; the two lower or 

 subanal conical portions of the outer marginal band are generally inwardly-edged 

 more or less with blackish scales, these scales being more ajipareut in the pale 

 yellow discal specimens ; veins across the disc black lined. Cilia of both wings 

 slio-htlv alternated with white. Underside. Forewing duller black : the veins and 

 the cell bordered with well-defined grey streaks. Eindwing as on the upperside, 

 except that the anal and two subanal cones of the margmal band have each two 

 longitudinal short greenish-yellowish scaled streaks, and a similar scaled line 



