230 LEPIDOrTERA IXDICA. 



females taken were all of the Diphilns form " (P. Z. S. 188G, 43o). " It is common 

 everj^where in Bombay and the Dekkan throughout the year ; the females of Hector 

 and Diphilus form. The larva; and pupa3 are very similar to those of P. Erithonins. 

 The larvae feed on Citron, Lime, and Orange. Larval stage fourteen days, pupal 

 stage fourteen days. The pupa is either bright green or bi'own ; both kinds are 

 equally common, and each produces both sexes" (/'/. P. Z. S. 1885, 145). " In the 

 N. Kanara district this butterfly is on the wing at all seasons, but most numerous 

 abont September and October. Females of the same colour as the male are scarce 

 in this district. The larva is very common and very destructive to Orange and 

 Lime trees in gardens. In the forest we have found it most commonly on Glycosmis 

 2-xmtaphi/Ila and Zanthoxylum Bliefsla" (J. Davidson and E. H. Aitken, J. Bombay 

 N. H. S. 189G, 580). Mr. S. N. AVard obtained Paimion "in Malabar and Kanara, 

 above and below the Ghats, and Romulus in Mangalore, Sirey, Calicut, and on the 

 Shevaroy Hills " (:MS. Notes). Mr. G. F. Sampson records it from the " Nilgiris 

 at 1000 to 7000 feet elevation. The three forms of female taken " (J. As. Soc. 

 Beno-al, 1888, 363). " Two specimens of Pammou taken at Kathlekan, Mysore, in 

 December and January" (Capt. E. Y. Watson, I.e. 1890, p. 9). "All three forms 

 of female taken in Madras, from March to August, id. I.e. 1880, 268). In 

 Travancore " it is common in the low country and up to 2000 feet on the Hills. 

 The three forms of female occur" (H. S. Ferguson, J. Bombay N. H. S. 1891, 10). 



In Ceylon it occurs "everywhere; more abnndautly in the low country ; the 

 Poh/tes form of female scarcer than Romulus, but found in the same range " (F. M. 

 Mackwood, MS. Notes). Dr. Thwaites remarks, " I have repeatedly reared the 

 three forms of female larvae apparently cpiite undistinguishable from one another" 

 (Lep. Ceyl. i. 150). 



Mr. E. Ernest Green, writing from Punduloya, Ceylon, January 25th, 1885, 

 says, " I have caught several impregnated females of this butterfly, but I find that 

 they are unwilling to deposit their eggs in captivity, and have hitherto died without 

 doing so ; but from one female— the form {Romulus) with the forewing having two 

 transverse interrupted bars of white, and hindwing spotted with dull red, with no 

 white markings — I expressed a single egg, after the death of the fly on September 

 24th, 1884. This egg hatched out on September 30th, and was reared upon Orange 

 leaves, until it changed into the pupa some time in October, and from this pupa the 

 imago — a male Pam-mon — which I send you, emerged on January 23rd, 1S85. I 

 have seen all the different varieties of the female on the wing here in the same 

 months." 



Ascending the continent eastward, it is recorded that " the three forms of this 

 butterfly are common at Khorda, in Orissa " (W. C. Taylor, List, 1888, 17). "In 

 Calcutta it is the commonest Papilio; all three forms of the female occur, the form 



