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spines ; pupa suspended by tail and medial band ; imago emerged in August (MS. 

 Notes). Messrs. J. Davidson and B. H. Aitken record " this butterfly was very 

 common in the N. Kanara District of Bombay, in 1889, in March, June, and July; 

 it frequented one particular spot about half-way up the Goodhally Hill ; elsewhere 

 we seldom met with it. On Juae 23rd we discovered the larva on a jungle tree (since 

 identified as Saccopetalum tomeiitostim, N". 0. Anonace*) and literally collected 

 hundreds. By the end of July these had all become pupa" (J. Bombay, N. H. S. 

 1890, 364). " The butterfly is plentiful enough where it occurs, much more so, 

 however, in some years than others, but it is very local, and its appearance is limited 

 to the hot season and the first two mouths in the rains. More than half the year, 

 from the end of July till at least March, or oftener May, is passed in the pupa state 

 under stones and roots " {id. I.e. 1896, 579). A specimen fi-om Belgaum, Bombay, 

 is in the British Museum. Mr. J. Beetham obtained it in the Central Provinces 

 {I.e. 1891, 330). Col. C. Swinhoe records it from " Mount Aboo, Central Provinces " 

 (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1898, 313). He also possesses a specimen from Ranchi, Chota Nagpur, 

 Lower Bengal. Mr. W. C. Taylor found it " very common in some places in Khorda, 

 Orissa " (List, 1888, 16). The late Edw. Blyth writes that it " abounds in the vicinity 

 of Calcutta and other parts of Bengal, during the dry hot season " (MS. Note). 

 Mr. J. Rothney found it " rather uncommon in the Calcutta District. It frequents the 

 flowers oi Durantia Plumieri" (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1882, 33). Mr. L. de Niceville says, 

 " This species comes out in profusion, in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, in March, 

 and is the only single-brooded species in Calcutta with which I ara acquainted. The 

 larva feeds on Polyalthia longi folia'" (J. As. Soc. Bang. 1885, 51). 



Of our illustrations on Plate 477, fig. 1, larva &\\di pupa, is from the drawings of 

 Mrs. Hamilton, made at Saugor in 1852 ; fig. la, also larva and pupa, is copied from 

 Messrs. Davidson and Aitken's published drawings ; fig. 1, b, c is from a Ceylon male ; 

 Id from an Indian female, and le from a Bai-rackpur female. 



PATHYSA PERNOMIUS (Plate 478, fig. 1, la, b, S). 



Papilio Nomius, form temp. Pernomius, Fruhstorfer, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1902, p. 202. 



Papilio {Pathysa) Nomius, Elwes, Journ. As. Sac. Beng. 1886, p. 437. de Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. 



1891, p. 174. Adamson, List of Burma Butt. 1897, p. 48. 

 Papilio Nomius, de Niceville, ,T. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1890, p. 387. Watson, id. 1891, p. 54. 

 Papilio Nomius Swinhoei (part), Kothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 432 (1895). 



Male and female. Upperside. Foreiving with comparatively broader black 

 bands than in typical Nomms from Ceylon and S. India. Hindwing also with broader 

 black marginal band, the inner-interspaces of the caudal area being almost or entirely 

 black, and the two lower subanal white spots smaller. Underside. Bands on both 



