so LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



conical, yellow tubercles — one on each side. Segment twelve has two very mncb 

 smaller tubercles. The eyes at the end of the marking of the ridge of segment four 

 are surrounded at some distance by a black line, and have a black patch at the 

 bottom, this patch being Hned at the top with yellow, the eye itself is a thin black 

 circumference with four blue segments of circles surrounding a blue square in tlie 

 middle. The intersegmental membrane of segments five and six is black. Oq 

 seo-ments two to twelve is a lateral and subdorsal blue spot. The intersegmental 

 membrane of all the segments, except five and six, is blue. Spiracles hght, oval, 

 with a thia black border. The colour of the body is a mottled dark, transparent- 

 looking green, with a white marginal line on segments seven to twelve. The band 

 of segments eight and nine {vide P. Helenus) is of a slightly darker green than the 

 body, and indistinct." 



PcrPA. — " Head with processes like P, HelenuH, diverging considerably, hardly 

 toothed inside, rounded on the top and a good deal compressed laterally. Eyes 

 more prominent underneath than in P. Polymnestor. Segment two concave ; thorax 

 running up into a short, laterally-compressed process, rounded on the top and at 

 right angles to median axis of pupa. Surface of wing-cases much less rugose thau 

 in P. Helenus and Polymnestor. Dorsal line of abdomen from segment four to 

 cremaster nearly a straight line ; the ventral line from end of wing cases to the end 

 is also a straight line, and is in the same straight line with the sutural line of the 

 wing-cases. Very small subdorsal tubercles on segments eight and nine. Spiracles 

 depressed, oval, striated transversely. Surface of pupa finely rugose. Colour green, 

 abdomen dorsally yellow ; a subdorsal dark green spot on each segment. Length 

 H to 2^ inches. Feeds on Glycosmis lyentapliylla.'" (T. R. Bell, Karwar, Bombay 

 in letter dated August 14th, 1895.) 



DiSTRinuTiON AND Habits, ETC. — " This buttei'fly easily passes for Pajnlio Panope 

 \_Chil(tsa Casyap(('] on a careless view, and even for Eiqdoia Gore \_Grastia Gore'], so 

 that it may well be less rare than might be supposed from the number of specimens 

 caught or noticed. At Karwar, in the Kanara District of Bombay, however, our 

 specimens have been caught on the ascent of the Ghats, or at the top." A larva, 

 found feeding on Glycosmis pentaphylla, N. 0. Rutacese, was taken for a dull 

 specimen of Pap. Polytes, and only when it became a chrysalis did we note that it 

 was different. The chrysalis differs from that of Pap. Erithoniiis chiefly in that 

 it is more bent back on the thorax, and the apex of the thorax is produced into a 

 short blunt parallel apipedal process ; it is coloured like that of P. Polytes.'' (J. 

 Davidson and E. H. Aitken, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, 583.) Mr. J. R. 

 Bell, in a letter from Karwar, Bombay, dated August 14th, 1895, writes us, " This 

 butterfly is found, in certain localities in the Kanara District, in fair quantity at 

 certain times. In the cold weather it is to be met with in the beds of perennial 



