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Egg. — " Tawny ; globular, riljbcd, with a small point at the apex." (E. E. 

 Green, MS. Note.) 



Habitat. — Ce^lou. 



Distribution. — " Peculiar to Ceylon, and confined locally to the middle liill- 

 district. It is not rare at Pundaloya and Gampola in June, and is easily captured in 

 the early morning; after the sun is up it flies fast and soars over the tops of 

 the forest trees quite out of reach " (Dr. N. Manders, Journ. As. Soo. Bengal, 1899, 

 221). Mr. F. M. Mackwood records it as " very local. Hills from 2000 to 4000 feet 

 elevation. Taken only in the Xavalputha and Pusilawa country in a tract of about 

 twenty miles in extent, in June." Capt. "Wade obtained it "at Anibagamma ; 

 Kollawah forest. Rather plentiful, but very difficult to capture, being a liigli flier " 

 (Lep. Ceylon, i, 152). 



Of our illustrations on Plate 4:30, fig. 1 is from a drawing of the larva 

 by Mr. E. Ernest Green, and figs, la, b, are of male and female. 



MENELAIDES PANDIYANA (Plate 437, fig. 1, la, ^, lb, ? ). 



Papilio Pundiyana, Moore. Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. .313. 

 Papilio [Menelaides) Pandiaitd, Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 363. 

 Papilio {Menelaides) Pmidiijana, Ferguson, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891, p. 416. 

 PapiJio PaHdii/anus, Kothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 234 (1895). 



Imago. — Male. Allied to Jujihon. Fvreioing narrower. Upperside with the 

 pale streaks between the outer veins longer and with a linear intervening black 

 streak, the upper cell-streaks extending to the end ; a short whitish streak also 

 present below the submedian vein. Ilinclwing with the cell longer, the discal 

 sullied-white patch extending from two-thirds before end of the cell and there 

 traversed within by two longitudinal slender obscure blackish lines, the portions in 

 the outer interspaces being broader and shorter, and with an upper large 

 quadrate spot in the costal interspace ; six submarginal obscui'e dusky crimson 

 lunules, and one at the anal angle. Underside. Forewlmj paler ; vein streaks paler. 

 Hindwing with the discal patch, as on upperside, wliiter ; the six submarginal 

 lunules and the anal lunule prominent, broad, pure pink. Tluyrax and abdomen 

 black, tip of abdomen ochreous ; frontal tuft and palpi pale ocbreous. 



Female. Upperside similar to the male. Hindwing with the outer portions 

 of the di.;cal whitish patch externally speckled with dusky scales, the upper 

 or costal portion is small or divided into two ; the submarginal lunules and 

 anal lunide somewhat broader. Underside similar to the upper, the streaks on 

 forewing and discal patch on hindwing wliiter, the submarginal lunules and anal 

 lunule as in the male. 



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