PAPILIONIN^. 13 



Schmett. i. p. 9 (1884). Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 343. Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 359, 



pi. 32, fig. 6 (1885). Pryer, Rhop. Nipon, p. 5, pi. 1, fig. 9 (1886). Distant and Pryer, Ann. 



Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 273. Holland, Tr. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 122. Staudinger, Iris, ii. p. 15 



(1889). Manders, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1890, 536. Snellen, Tijd. v. Ent. 1890, p. 305. Watson, 



Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891, p. 54. Hagen, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 1G5; ih.lns, vii. 



p. 28 (1894). Oberthiir, Et. Ent. xvii. p. 4 (1893). de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 



1895, p. 526. Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 410 (1895). Fruhstorfer, Berl. Eat. Zeit. 1902, 



p. 213. 

 Zeiides Sarpedon, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 85 (1816) ; ib. Samml. Ex. Schmett. iii. pi. 25 



(1827-37). 

 Ghlorisses Sarpedon, Swainson, Zool. Illustr. ii. pi. 89 (1832). 

 Balcliina Sarpedon, Moore, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 257, ih. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, p. 50. Swinhoe, 



Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 314. Kirby, Allen's N. H. Butt. ii. p. 277. 

 FapiUo {Dalchina) Sarpedon, Doherty, J. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 136. Wood-Mason, ib. 1886, 



p. 376. Elwes and de Niceville, ih. 1886, p. 437. de Niceville, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 



1893, p. 54, pi. 1, fig. 11, c?( — melanoid var.) ; id. Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 174. Mackinuon, 



Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1898, p. 595, pi. W, fig. 26a, b, pupa. 

 Papilio Demophon, Meerburgh, Afbeeld, pi. 9 (1775). Shaw, Gjn. Zool. vi. i. pi. 64 (1806). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside black. Forewing with a medial-discal 

 oblique transverse macular band composed of nine pale emerald-green spots, 

 extending from the apex to the posterior margin, the anterior spots being small and 

 well separated, the posterior broadly widening and conjoined, the two lowest beino- 

 blue-tinted. Wmdwing with a medial-discal transverse posteriorly-taperiuo- bkie- 

 greeu band, the broad costal portion of which is whitish ; beyond is a submarginal 

 medial row of four slender blue-green lunules, and usually with a more or less 

 obsolescent anterior and posterior grey-scaled lunule ; abdominal margin grey, the 

 fold in the male, when open displaying a hairy patch ; cilia slenderly alternated with 

 white. Underside dark purplish-brown. Forewing with glossy macular band, as 

 above. Hindioing with medial band as above, the costal portion being pale green 

 and inwardly bordered by a subbasal black spot traversed by a deep crimson bar • 

 the medial band also outwardly bordered by black patches, the patch at apex of the 

 cell and those from the radial to anal angle traversed by a deep crimson lunule, that 

 at the anal angle being broad ; beyond, the submarginal pale green lunules are less 

 defined than on upperside. Body greyish-black above ; beneath, legs and palpi, 

 grey-streaked ; antennae black. 



Expanse, 3 to 3^ inches. 



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

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

 between which is a transverse pale yellow line, two shorter spines also on the second 

 and third, and two on the anal segment ; colour green, with a longitudinal posterior 

 lateral and lower pale yellowish line. 



