178 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Expanse, <? 4, ? 4} inches. 



Larva. — Unknown. 



Habitat. — S. India; Travancore, Nilgiris. 



DisTRTBDTiON. — " Tliis is a South India butterfly, and is perhaps little more 

 than a straggler in the N. Kanara District of Bombay, but there are one or two places 

 on the ascent of the Ghats wliere it is not uncommon. The larva remains to 

 be discovered. It probably feeds on Butacece, as we once saw a female fluttering 

 about in the underwood among plants of that Order. It has the flight of 

 Aristolocliise, and has the same habit of hovering about flowers in the early 

 mornings. The imago is never found far from evergreen jungle" (J. Davidson 

 and E. H. Aitken, J. Bombay N. H. S. 1896, 584). Mr. G. F. Ilampson says 

 that, on the Nilgiris, it is "confined to the Western Slopes, from 1000 to 

 3000 feet elevation, where it is common" (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1888, 3G3). 

 It is "abundant in the Travancore Hills at about 2000 feet elevation. Found also 

 in the low country at the foot of the Hills " (H. S. Ferguson, J. Bombay N. H. S. 

 1891, 446). 



MENELA.IDES AIIISTOLOCHI.S. 



Dry season form (Plate 441, fig. 1, larva and jn/pa; la, cJ, lb, $ ; Ic, (?, Id, ?). 



Papilio AristolocJuce, Fabvicius, Sjst. Ent. p. 443 (1775). Goeze, Ent. Beyt. iii. 1, p. 40 (1779). 



Biitlor, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 258 (1869). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 840. 



ObcrtLiir, Etudes Ent. iv. p. 43 (1879) ; id. xvii. p. 3 (1893). Ehves, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, 



p. 427. MandeM, il>. 1890, p. 535. Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1890, 



p. 302. Leech, Butt, of China, ii. p. 554 (1893). Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 245 (1895). 

 Meneliitdes Arisiolochm, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 259. Swinhoe, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 



1893, p. 313. 

 Papilio {Menelaides) Arisfolochice, de Niccville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 52. Doherty, ib. 



188(5, p. 137. Wood-Mason and de Niceville, ib. 1886, p. 376. Elwes and de Niceville, ih. 



1886, p. 435. Hampson, ib. 1888, p. 3G3. Ferguson, -Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891, p. 44G. 



de Nicc»fille, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 171. 

 Papilio Polidorus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 45, pi. 128, fig. a, e (1777), nee Linne. 

 Papilio Polijdorus, Jablousky, Nat. Schmett. ii. p. 201, pi. 15, fig. 3 (1784). 

 Prlnceps Heroieus Pvlijdorits, Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. i. pi. Ill (1806-19). 

 Papilio Polydorus (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 84 (1816). 

 Papilio Poli/doruK, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. 1. Company, pi. 3, fig. 17, larva (1S28). De Haan, 



Yorh. Nat. Gesch. Ned. p. 38, pi. 8, fig. 1 (1840). 

 Papilio Sector (part), Pabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 2 (1781). Jablonsky, Nat. Schmett. ii. p. 2ul 



(1784). E.sper, Ausl. Schmett. p. 15 (1784). 

 Papilio BipMlus, Esper, Ausl. Schmett. p. 156, pi. 40, fig. 2 (1792). Gray, Catal. Lep. B. JL 1, 



p. 10 (1852). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 94, pi. 2, fig. 5, 5a, larva (1857). 



Felder, Verb. Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, p. 326. Lang, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, p. 101. Wallace, 



