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sun is well up" (Ent, Mo. Mag. 1880, 276). Mr.- G. F. Hampson obtained 

 it on the " Nilgiris at from 1000 to 7000 feet elevation " (J. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, 

 363). Sir W. Elliot " found and reai'ed the larva on ArlstolocUla, in October, 

 at Simachellura, Madras" (^IS. Notes). Capt. E. Y. AVatson records it as 

 very common in Madras from June to September" (J. As. Soc. Bengal, 1890, 

 268). Common at Kolar in October, and at Nelamangala, Mysore, in January" {id. 

 J. Bombay N. H. S. 1890, 9). Mr. H. S. Ferguson records it as " very common in 

 Travancore, both in low coLintry and on the lower slopes of the Hills " {ib. 1891, 

 416). Mr. J. Rothney found it "common in Barrackpore Park, near Calcutta, from 

 March to October " (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1882, 73). Mr. L. de Niceville says it is " rare 

 in Calcutta, but taken commonly at Chandernagoi-e in November. Has a strong 

 scent. Larva feeds on Arlsfulocliia" (J. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, 52). Mr. W. 

 C. Taylor records it as "common at Khorda in Orissa " (List 1888, 16). AYe 

 possess a male taken in Chittagong, in September. In Ceylon, it is "common in the 

 low country at certain seasons of the year, general!}- after the first outbreak of 

 the . two monsoons. It is abundant at Colombo" (Dr. N. Manders, J. As. 

 Soc. Beng. 1899, 221). Col. J. ^V. Yerbury took it at Trincomali in September. 

 Mr. F. M. Mackwood records it as a " low country butterfly in Ceylon, and found 

 occasionally about 2000 feet elevation. Very abundant in the early months of 

 the year, but occurs all through the year" (Lep. Ceylon, i. 152). 



Of our illustrations on Plate 435, fig. 1, larvfB and pupK are from Sir W. Elliot's 

 Madras drawings, and fig. la, b, the male and female. 



Genus MENELAIDES. 



Menelaides, KiihnerjYerz. bek. Schmett. p. 84 (181G). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 151 (1881). 



Kirby, Allen's Nat. Hist. Butt. ii. p. 304 (189G). 

 Papiiio (part), Doublcday and Hewitson, G-en. D. Lsp. i. p. 5 (1846). 

 PapiUo (Group I. pait), Rothschild, Nov. Zuol. ii. p. 233 (ISO.J). 



Imago. — Male. Foreiving elongated, somewhat narrow, triangulated ; apes very 

 convex, exterior margin long and oblirpie, posterior margin short ; cell long and 

 narrow, extending to two-thirds the wing; first subcostal branch emitted at two- 

 fifths and second at one-fifth before the end of the cell ; upper discocellular shortest. 

 Hindiciug very short anteriorly, narrow, produced posteriorly ; exterior margin 

 scalloped and furnished with a more or less developed tail ; abdominal margin 

 slightly folded and grooved alongside of the submedian vein ; cell short, broadest 

 across the middle ; first subcostal emitted at one-fourth before end of the cell ; upper 

 discocellular very long and oblique, twice the length of the lower. Bodj/ 

 moderately slender, anal segment not valved ; posterior tibia thickly incrassated from 



