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as occurring in tlie " low country and to be seen occasionally above 2,000 feet 

 elevation. It is usually abundant in March and April. Its flight is swift. Capt. 

 Hutchison says it occurs everywhere in the Plains and Hills up to 6,000 feet. 

 Abundant during the S.W. Monsoon. Flight veiy rapid, but wavering, and difficult 

 to capture on the wing. Settles on leaves. Capt. Wade found it rather scarce at 

 Galle, but common at Kandy " (Lep. Ceylon i. 146). Mr. de Niceville writes, " In 

 Ceylon it is common and widely distributed ; the females are rare. It is less 

 common in the higher hills, where it is probably a passenger onl^'^ ; it is abundant at 

 Kandy, and common in the Northern Provinces as far north as Anaradhapura, in 

 June, July, and December" (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1899, 223). Tbe larva was found by 

 Mr. John Pole, in Ceylon, feeding on the Satin-wood tree, Ghloroxi/lon S/oietenia, 

 in December, and from whose drawing our description and the figures on Plate 493 

 are taken. In South India, it was taken by the late S. N. Ward, on the Nilgiris. 

 Mr. G. F. Hampson obtained it on the "Nilgiris, from 1,000 to 3,000 feet elevation " 

 (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1S88, 364). Capt. E. Y. Watson obtained it in Berhampur, 

 Ganjam, Madras, in October ; and Mr. J.Walhouse took it in Coimbatore. Mr. Betham 

 records it from the "Central Provinces" (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1891, 825). Mr. 

 W. C. Taylor found it "common in Khorda, Orissa " (List 1888, p. 16). Mr. L. de 

 Niceville writes, " Single specimens met with in the Calcutta District throughout 

 the hot weather. It first appears in March, but is the rarest Papilio in Calcutta" 

 (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1885, 51). 



HAEIBTALA BTJCrHA (Plate 494, fig. 1, larva a.nd pupa, la, b, S, If, ? ). 



Pajjilio Buddha, Westwood, Trans. Eat. Soc. Lond. 1S72, p. 86, pi. 3, fig. 1, J'. Butler, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 612. Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 389 (1895). Davidson and Aitken, Journ. 



Bombay K H. Sjc. 1896, p. 581, pi. 6, fig. 2, 2a, larva and /.wjoa. 

 Papilio (Harimala) Buddha, Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 364. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black ; the base of both wings densely, and the apex 

 of forewing sparsely, irrorated with bright green scales ; cilia alternated with pale 

 ochreous. Forewing with a broad transverse medial band, extending from the costa 

 across apex and outer edge of the cell and thence widens — to generally twice of its 

 anterior width — to the postei'ior margin before the angle ; this band is bright 

 emerald-green, or, in some lights, bright blue, its inner edge is straight and its outer 

 edge waved. Hindwing with a very broad transverse medial emerald-green band, of 

 variable width, starting from the upper subcostal veinlet and extending across the 

 cell to abdominal margin, its inner-edge being straight and even and its outer-edge 

 much excurved and diffusedly speckled ; at the anal angle is a more or less prominent 

 reddish-ochreous or red ocellus, followed by four lower submargiual slightly-defined 

 lunular clusters of green scales and then two upper reddish-ochreous lunules. In 



