P TEEING. 159 



1885, p. 136; hi. 1886, p. 480. Hampson, Jouni. As. Soc. Beng. 1888, p. 363. Ferguson, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1891, p. 444. de Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. IGS. de Nicuville and 

 Aitken, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1896, p. 575. Mackinnon, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, 

 p. 590. Watson, Journ. Bombay, N". H. Soc. 1898, p. 8. 



Papilio Aurota, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 197 (1793). 



Fieris Lordaea, Walker, Entomologist, v. p. 48 (1870). — -Br ij form. 



Belenois Lordacn, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 375. 



Belenois Aurigena, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 374, ? ; tj. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 203.— Wet 

 form. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside greyish white. Foreiring with a black excurved bar 

 at end of the coll, which extends slenderly from base of first subcostal branch and 

 then widens outward to the upper median veinlet ; beyond is a broad apical mai'giual 

 band enclosing six white spots, the three upper being somewhat elongated, the lower 

 short and small, the inner-edge of the band is sinuous. Hindwing with either a 

 more or less ill-defined, or a prominent-black outer-marginal band enclosing a series 

 of four rounded white spots ; in some specimens a slightly-defined black-scaled costal 

 spot and a slender streak on middle of the discocellular is present, and the dark 

 vein-borders of the underside indicated. Underside. Forewiu.g with black markings 

 as on upperside, the black extending to base of the subcostal, and in some specimens 

 the series of apical spots are more or less tinted with yellow. Hinchving with the 

 veins moi'e or less slightly, or prominently, black bordered, the mai'ginal spotted 

 border complete, and all the interspaces of the wing are either white or tinted with 

 pale or dark ochreous-yellow. 



Female. Upperside. Foreiring with the cell bar broader than in male and 

 extending inward to near base of the costa; the apical marginal band also broader, 

 with its enclosed spots smaller and either less prominent, or indistinctly defined. 

 Hindwing either with slightly-defined or prominent markings, as in the male, or with 

 the veins more or less indistinctly black lined and the spots of tlie mai-ginal band 

 indistinct or partly obsolescent. Underside. Forewiug with the base yellow-tinted, 

 a broader cell-bar and outer band, the enclosed spots of the latter being more or less 

 yellow tinted. Hindwing with all the veins black bordered, and the discal interspaces 

 only are white or all are uniformly tinted with pale or dark ochreous-yellow. Bodi/, 

 palpi, and legs greyish- white ; antennjB black above, whitish annulated beneath. 



Expanse, (? ? If to 2^ inches. 



Habitat. — E.Africa; E. Arabia; Pei'sia; Beluchistan; Afghanistan; W. and 

 E. Himalayas ; Continental India. 



Life History. — Egg. — " Half a line long, semi-conical, bright yellow. About 

 twenty-five in number, very close to each other, but not touching, placed on the 

 upper surface of the leaf." 



Larva. — " When hatched, a line long, olive colour, with a distinct glossy jet- 



