173 LEPIDOPTERA IXDICA. 



near base to the tip, and densel}'' clothed with rather long lax spiny scales ; antennal 

 club gradually thickened. 



Tyte.— M. Polydorus, Linn. 



MENELAIDES JOPHON (Plate 436, fig. 1 larm, la, S, lb, ?)• 



PapUio Jophon, Gray, Catal. Lep. Brit. Mus. i. p. 10, pi. 4, fig. 4 ? (1852) ; id. List. Lep. B. M. p. 11 

 (1856). Felder, Yerh. Z. B. Ges. Wien. p. 82G (18G4). Haase, Untersuch. ub. Mim. p. 24 

 (1893). Eothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 234 (1S95). 



Menelaidcs Joplion, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 152, pi. 58, fig. 1 ? (1881) ; i7). ii. p. 533, pi. 210, 

 fig. 6, larva. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich violescent brownish-black. Forewing with 

 a sullied greyish-white short forked streak between the outer veins, those 

 above the third median veinlet slender, those below very broad, less forked, and 

 prominent; within the cell are four short similar coloured narrow streaks, the upper 

 one obsolescent, which are superposed above the interspace of the lower medians. 

 Hlndwing with a large sullied-white central rounded patch extending across outer- 

 half of the cell and the basal interspaces from the upper subcostal to the submedian 

 vein ; beyond is a submarginal series of five ill-defined narrow black-speckled dusky 

 crimson lunules. Underside. Foreioing paler violescent-brown, the streaks whiter 

 and more prominent. Bindwing with the central white patch more prominent and 

 with an upper small white spot present in the costal interspace; followed by 

 a submarginal series of six crimson lunules and a crimson lunule at anal angle. 

 Thorax and abdomen above and beneath to near the tip, black; collar behind 

 the eyes edged with white ; frontal tuft brown ; palpi dull pale crimson ; sides 

 of thorax beneath, tip and sides of abdomen above and beneath crimson, the latter 

 with black lateral spots and segmental bands ; antennae and legs black. 



Female. Upperside. Foreicing broader; vein and cell streaks as in the male, 

 more prominent and whiter. Hindiving as in the male, with the central patch 

 whiter ; the elongated streak in the submedian interspace slightly tipt with pale 

 crimson scales. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse, cJ 4^, ? 4f to 5 inches. 



Lakva. — "Dark purple-black, with crimson coloured pointed tubercles, two on 

 2nd segment, eight on each of 3rd and 6th, six on each of 8th to 10th, and four on 

 13th; seventh segment with a pale cream-coloured transverse band (interrupted on 

 the dorsal line) including four tubercles of the same colour, below which on each side 

 is a single crimson tubercle ; on second segment is a band composed of four pale 

 tubercular-spots, from the centre of which can be protruded a pair of short blunt 

 yellow tentacles." 



