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yellow bands and black dots ; thickest in tbe middle, slightly tapering at both ends, 

 has a rough appearance from being ribbed, and is covered with minute hairs. Dorsal 

 and lateral bands dull green, the black dots giving it a blue appearance ; subdorsal 

 band yellow ; spiracular band white, yellow at the junction of the segments. Head 

 pale green with black dots ; a yellow patch on each side, a whitish collar on second 

 segment ; belly pale green ; feet pale green with a yellow mark above each ; 

 spiracles indistinct " (Major Howland Roberts, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, 410). 



Pupa. — " Attached to the stem or leaf of its food-plant by the tail and also by a 

 thread over the back. A beak-like proboscis turned upward and rather long" 

 {id. I.e.). 



Habitat. — S. Arabia ; Persia ; S. Afghanistan ; S. Punjab. 



Distribution (Within our Area). — Major H. Roberts obtained it at "Kandahar, 

 being common in May and June, frequenting the rocky uncultivated slopes of the 

 Hills, where the food plant grows. The larva was found in the middle of May aud 

 June on the wild Mignonette growing on the rocky hills and slopes " {I.e. 1880, 410). 

 Col. C. Swinhoe records it from " Kandahar, taken in June " (Tr. Eat. Soc. 188.5, 

 343). "We possess two females labelled, Derajat, S.W. Punjab. 



Of our illustrations on Plate 521, fig. 2 is from a male, and fig. 2a, b, from the 

 female type of VijMsn, from Derajat. 



Genus PARAPIERIS. 



Parapieris, de Niceville, Jouin. As. Soc. Bengal, 1897, p. 563. 



Syncliloe (pt.), Hubuer, Verz. bek. Schmett. 9-t (1816). 



Sijncldoe, Batler, Cistula Ent. i. pp. 38, 51 (1870). Sciulder, Syst. Kev. Arner. Butt. p. 42 (1872). 



Imago. — Foreiving less triangular than in Fonfia Baplidice, the exterior margin 

 being less oblique and the posteinor margin longer ; subcostal four branched, the 

 third branch generally, in both sexes, having a short fork near its tip, the upper 

 radial being emitted at fully one-third beyond end of the cell ; median veinlets 

 equidistant. Hiiuhving comparatively longer than in Dcrplidice, the costa not arched, 

 and the apes more regularly convex. Abdomen compactly scaled, and dorsally 

 hairy. Antennae similar. 



Type.— P. Oallidice. 



PARAPIERIS CALLIDICE (Plate 521, fig. 3, ^, 3s, b, ? ). 



Papilio Callidiee, Esper, Schmett. i. 2, pi. 115, figs. 2, 3 (1800). Hlibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 468-9, 



551-2 (1S03). 

 Piei-is Callidiee, Godart, Eneyc. Mctb. ix. p. 129 (1819). Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 542 (1836). 



Alpheraky, Bom. Mem. Lep. V. p. 98 (1889). 

 Synchloe Callidiee, Dolierty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 135. Leech, Butt, ui China, ii. p. 459 



(1894). 



