68 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



Etud. Ent. iv. p. 40 (1879). Betham, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891, p. 325. Eothschild, Xov. 



Zool. ii. p. 389 (189.=)). de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1899, p 223. 

 Papilio {Harimala) Crino, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 51. Hampson, id. 1888, 



p. 364. 

 Papilio Crino, var. wontunits, Felder, Yerh. Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, pp. 322, 370. 

 Harimala monianus, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 1-16, pi. 61, fig. 1, ? (1881). 



Imago. — Male. TJpperside brownisli-black ; densely covered witli emerald-green 

 scales ; cilia alternated witli "white. Foreicing with a transverse discal vein-divided 

 erect band, extending more or less narrowly from the costa, outside end of the cell, 

 and thence widens to the posterior margin before the angle, the band is bright 

 emerald-green — or, in some lights, bright blue, its inner-edge being nearly straight 

 and even, and its outer-edge generally more or less sinuous ; furnished — but not 

 always — with a more or less developed elongated slender brown tomentose stz'eak 

 along middle of the two lower median veinlets and a much less developed streak on 

 the submedian vein. Hindwvig with a broader transverse discal oblique band, of 

 variable width, which is either entirely emerald-green or anteriorly blue — -or in some 

 lights entirely-blue ; this baud starts from the upper subcostal and is widest 

 anteriorly, its inner-edge being even and somewhat recurved, its outer-edge more or 

 less difJ'usedly rounded between the veins ; at the anal angle is a prominent red 

 nearly-complete ocellus with black centre, and anteriorly surmounted by a violet- 

 scaled lunule ; along the lower margin are generally three distinct green-scaled slender 

 lunules ; tip of tail with a green or blue-scaled spot. Underside, sepia-brown. 

 Forewing with the basal, costal, and outer margin numerously irrorated with 

 ochreous scales ; crossed by an outer-discal escurved narrow ochreous-white broken 

 sinuous fascia. Eindwing numerously irrorated with ochreous scales ; crossed by a 

 submarginal complete row of ochreous lunules and a redder anal ocelloid spot, each 

 being inwardly preceded by a contiguous slender violet-scaled lunule, and the entire 

 series generally enclosed by an inner submarginal slender ochreous-scaled line. 

 Bodij above black, speckled with green scales, beneath brown and ochreous scaled ; 

 palpi, and fore femora beneath whitish ; legs brown ; antennce black. 



Female. Upperside similar to male, except that the forewing is without the 

 tomentose streaks, the transverse band narrower and more regularly sinuous between 

 the veins. Hindwhig with the band varying in width, as in male. Underside 

 similar to the male. 



Expanse, 6 3^ to 3f , ? 3f to 4 inches. 



Larva. — Somewhat limaciform ; anterior segments convexly scutellated ; 

 furnished with a pair of short fleshy tubercles on anterior and two on anal segment. 



Pupa. — Curved backward anteriorly ; head broad iu front; green. 



Habitat. — Ceylon ; South India ; Central Provinces ; Lower Bengal. 



DiSTKlBUTiox. — In Ceylon, this butterfly is recorded by Mr. F. M. Mackwood 



