12 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Genus DALCHINA. 



DalcMna, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 143 (1881). Kirby, Allen's Xa^. Hist. Butt. ii. p. 277 (1896). 

 Chlorisses* Swainson, Zool. Illustr. ii. pi. 89 (1832-3). 



Papilio (sect. 27, subsect. a, b,f), Felder, Verb. Z. B. Ges. Wicn. 1861, pp. 304, 306, 349, 351. 

 Papilio (group 36, part), Itothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 429 (1895). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing elongatedly triangular, attenuated and pointed at the 

 apex ; costa slightly arched, exterior margin very long, oblique and nearly even, 

 posterior margin short ; cell very long, rather narrow ; first and second subcostal 

 branches at nearly equal distances apart, first branch short and anastomosed to the 

 costal, second also touching the costal close to its apes; discocellulars inwardly 

 oblique. Eindtoing triangular, produced and attenuated hindward ; costa short and 

 oblique, exterior margin oblique, sinuous, and produced into a short bkint pointed 

 tail at end of upper median veinlet, abdominal margin long and folded, with a hairy 

 patch beneath ; cell very long, narrow ; second subcostal branch very concave at the 

 base. Body robust, woolly ; antennal club very short aiad thick. Sexes alike. 



Larva. — Smooth ; thickened from the second to fifth segment, and thence 

 decreasing to the end ; with two short subdorsal fleshy spines on tbe fourth 

 segment, two shorter spines on the second and third, and two on the anal segment. 



Pupa. — Conical; truncated in front; thorax produced into a lengthened 

 obtusely-pointed frontal process. 



TrPE. — D. Sarpedon, 



DALCHINA SARPEDON (Plate 471, fig. 1, larva a.nA pupa ; la, b, J , Ic, ? ). 



Papilio Sarpedon, Linnasus, Syst. iSTat. ed. x. p. 461 (1758) ; id. ed. xii. p. 747 (1767); id. Mus. LuJ. 

 Ulr. p. 196 (1764); Fabricius, Syst. Eut. p. 447 (1795). Esper, Ausl. Schmett. p. 38, pi. 8, 

 fig. 2 (1785). Zinken, Nov. Act. Ac. Nat. Cur. xv. p. 156 (1831). Lucas, Lep. Exot. p. 9, 

 pi. 5, fig. 1 (1835). Thon, Nat. Scbmett. p. 19, pi. 6, fig. 22 (1837). De Haan, Verb. Nat. 

 Gesch. Ned. pp. 7, 34, pi. 7, fig. 15 (1840). Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 14 

 (1846). Hutton, Tr. Ent. See. Lond. 1847, p. 51. KoUar, Hugel's Kaschmir, iv. pt. 2, p. 405 

 (1S44). Lucas, Chenu's Encycl. Hist. Nat. Pap. pi. 20, fig. 1 (1853). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. 

 E. I. C. i. p. 113, pi. 3, fig. 8, larva (1857). Lang, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, p. 101. Felder, Verb. 

 Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, pp. 304, 350. Wallace, Tr. Linn. Soc. xxv. p. 65 (1865). Moore, 

 P. Z. S. 1865, pp. 487, 757; id. 1878, p. 841; id. 1882, p. 257. L'Orza, Lep. Japon. p. 10 

 (1869). Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 242 (1869). Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 357. Piepers, 

 Tijd. V. Ent. 1876, p. 155 ; id. 18S8, p. 346, pi. 7, fig. 8, 9, larva. Butler, P. Z. S. 1877, 

 p. 814; ih. Tr. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1877, p. 552. Oberthiir, Etud. Ent. iv. p. 59 (1879). 

 de Niccville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p 59. Elwes, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 873; ih. Tr. Eat. 

 Soc. 1888, p. 434. Aurivillius, Kong. Sv. Yet. Ak. Handl. 1882, p. 20. Staudinger, Exot. 



* Pieoccupied as Chlurism, by Stepliens, in 1829. 



