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Nullahs flying np and clown in certain spots; the flight is in such cases very much 

 like that of a Buploea — until the insect is disturbed, when it darts off with wonderful 

 rapidity. It is met with hovering round the tops of high hills at times in company 

 with Papilio Panoi^ie and Tap. disslmilis, these, however, are always males. At the 

 end of the rains and in the hot weather it is found pretty plentifully, in parts, where 

 the evergreen jungles abound. It is nowhere common. The egg is laid singly on 

 the underside of an old leaf, never on a new one, in out-of-the-way places among 

 brushwood, etc. The time I saw two eggs laid was 5 p.m., a late hour for Papilios 

 to be laying ; this was at Tarimallapur, on April 2nd, 189o." Mr. G. F. Hampson 

 records it as " common on the western slopes of the Nilgiris, rave on the northern " 

 (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 18S8, 363). Mr. J. Wood-Mason's type specimens were 

 taken at " Trevandrum, Travancore, by Mr. F. W. Bourdillon, and from the Kadur 

 District, Mysore, at about 2,600 feet elevation, by Mr. Gr. H. Kearney" (Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. 1880, 144). Mr. H. S. Ferguson records it as " fairly common in 

 the low country of Travancore, less so on the Hills" (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1891, 

 446). We possess both sexes from Karwar, received from Mr. Bell, and from 

 Travancore, received from Mr. Bourdillon, and males from the Nilgiris, taken by 

 Mr. Hampson. Mr. L. de Niceville says the larva also feeds on Alseodai)hie semi- 

 carpifoUa, N. 0. Laurinese. {I.e. 259). 



Mimicry. — Both sexes of this species are excellent mimics of the Euploeine 

 butterfly, Crasfia Core, and have a resemblance, also, to the Papilioniue, Ghilasa 

 Casyapa. 



Allied Species. — Tamera Selangorana (Pap. Mahadeva Selangoranus, Fruh- 

 storfer, Soc. Ent. 1901, p. 51 ; id. Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1902, p. 177. Hahifat. Selan- 

 gore Island. — Tamera Pharangensis (Pap. Mahadeva Pharangensis, Fruhstorfer, 

 Soc. Ent. 1901, p. 98; zJ. Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1902, p. 176. Habitat. S. Annam.— 

 Tamera Hamela (Pap. Hamela, Crowley, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1900, p. 509, pi. 35, 

 fig. 3. Eahitat. Hainan. — Tamera Formosana (Pap. Castor Formosanus, Roths- 

 child, Nov. Zool. iii. p. 423 (1896). Habitat. N. Formosa. 



Genus CHILASA. 



Chilasa, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 153 (18S1). Kirby, Allen's Xat. Hist. Butt. ii. p. 279 (1896). 



Arisbe (part), Hiibner, Veiz. bek. Schmett. p. 89 (1816). 



Chjlia* Swainson, Zool. lUustr. 2nd Ser. iii. pi. 120 (1833). 



Papilio (sect. 37 part), Felder, Verb. Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, pp. SOS, .354. 



Papilio (group 21 part), Kothscbild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 364 (189-3). 



* Inadmissible. Also previously used. 

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