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line?, tLe anterior ridge ending in a large black and white ocellus on each side. The 

 pupa was distinguishable from that of I'ulj/mnedor chiefly by the two projecting 

 points on the head being somewhat curved upwards " {ib. I.e. 1890, 367). The larva 

 also "feeds on Cltyvs derumana and Citrus meJica " (de Niccville, J. As. S. Bengal, 

 1900, 256). Mr. S. X. Ward, in his MS. Notes, writes, " It is found from the top of 

 the Nilgiris and Shevaroys to the coast on both sides, chiefly after the monsoon. It 

 likes the forest and may be seen early over the trees low down on the mountain 

 passes. Like Pulijmnestor it is fond of hovering about watery and muddy places. 

 The larva feeds on the Orange and Lime, but is exceedingly difficult to find." It is 

 " common on the Nilgiris from lOOO to 7000 feet elevation. The larva feeds on 

 Orange, and has tlie pow'er of protruding two pink horns from tlie head with a 

 delicious scent. It will always do this if taken up by a pair of scissors, or by the 

 beak of a bird " (G. F. Ilampson, I.e. 363). Mr. H. S. Ferguson i-ecords it as 

 " common in the Travancore Hills from 2000 feet upwards " (J. Bombay N. II. IS. 

 1891, 446). Col. C. Swinhoe look it in Poona, Bombay (P. Z. S. 1885, 145). 



Our illustrations of the larva and pupa on Plate 455 are from the late Mr. S. N. 

 Ward's orig^inal drawings. 



CHARUS MOOREANUS. 



Papilio Heleiius Mooreanns, Eothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 28G (1895). 

 Charus Helen/is, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 149, pi. 58, fig. 3, J (1881). 



Imago. — Upperside brownish-black. Forcwiug with sparsely irrorated golden- 

 yellow scaled streaks within the cell and between the outer veins. Uimliriiuj with a 

 broad pale yellow upper-discal patch, which has an irregular outer border; an 

 indistinct crimson slender lunule above anal angle, and other lower-submarginal 

 lunulas, these latter being more distinct in the female; a few yellow scales on the 

 disc below the patch. Underside. Hindiviiir/ with the discal white patch as above, 

 and a complete series of seven subdiscal blue lunules, of which the three anterior 

 stand at the outer edge of the white discal patch, and the two posterior are situated 

 within the anal and subanal rufous spots. 



Expanse, Ah to 5^ inches. 



Habitat.— Ceylon. 



DiSTiiiBUTJON. — Mr. F. M. Mackwood says this butterfly is " found principally in 

 open glades, and roadways in the jungle, from about 2000 to 4000 feet elevation. 

 Capt. Wade took it at Kandy, Ambogamma and in the Kottowa forest. It frerpients 

 high jungle only, in suitable country; not uncommon" (Lep. Ceylon, i. 149). 

 Dr. N. Manders records it as " a very common insect in Ceylon, at all elevations, 

 but especially so iu the low country " (J. A. S. Beng. 1899, 222). 



