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pair of sliort pointed spines, and also a dorsal pair of short bluut nodular spines 

 — each encircled at the base by a black ring — on the fourth segment. Colour 

 generally black, or smoky, until the last moult, and then dull green, inclining to 

 rusty-brown on the sides ; some remain quite black to the end." 



Pupa. — " Broad anteriorly ; thorax with a dorsal forward-projecting frontal 

 process. Colour normally green, but varies with that of the object to which it is 

 attached " (Davidson and Aitken, I.e.). 



Habitat. — Ceylon ; South India. 



DiSTBiBUTiON, Habits, etc. — " Very abundant in Ceylon, in July, August, and 

 at the end of the year in the north and eastern portions in the low country. On 

 November 16th, 1898, on the first day of the anniial flight, Dr. N. Manders noted 

 that it was migrating in large numbers at Colombo ; nearly all the numei'ous 

 specimens he captured were in more or less tattered condition though freshly 

 emerged, showing that they had flown a considerable distance ; they probably came 

 from the dry district of Hambantota on the south-eastern side of the island" (L. de 

 Niceville, J. As. Soc. Beng. 1899, 224). " The larva feeds on Ihiona Lawii and on 

 Saccopetahim tomentositvi, Order Anonaceae " {id. I.e. 1900, 257). Mr. F. M. Mack- 

 wood obtained it in the " low country, and principally in the northern province. 

 Capt. Wade found it common in Kandy, and Galle. Capt. Hutchison took it in the 

 eastern province, in forest ground, in August. Also on the Trincomali road. It 

 sits in crowds on wet places ; have covered forty or fifty at once with my net. 

 Very rare elsewhere" (Lep. Ceylon, i. pp. 144', 145). In South India "this species 

 may be found in the Kanara district of Bombay, wherever Paj:). Teredon occurs in 

 this district, though it does not occur further north. It is quite a thirsty creature, 

 and usually contributes to the crowd that collects about moist ground in open 

 places in the forest, but it is scarcely so numerous as Teredon, We have met with 

 three specimens of this butterfly in which the green of the upperside was replaced 

 by a pale straw yellow. We found the larva of this butterfly at Karwar, in June 

 and July, feeding on two trees of the Order Anonacese, along with the larva of Fap. 

 Nomius and Agamemnon. Some remained in the pupa state for nearly two months. 

 At first sight the larva is very like that of P. Agamemnon, but the second pair of 

 spines is entirely wanting, and the third pair is reduced to mere knobs, encircled by 

 a black ring ; the colour is generally black, or smoky, until the last moult, and then 

 dull green, inclining to rusty-brown on the sides; but some of our specimens 

 remained quite black to the end. The pupa has the frontal process straight, but 

 directed forward ; its colour is normally green, but varies with that of the object 

 to which it is attached; one, attached to white cloth, was almost pure white" 

 (J. Davidson and E. H. Aitken, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1890, 364, id. 1896, 578). 

 The late Mr. S. N. Ward obtained it in " Malabar and Kanara, above and below the 



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