EOBAGINm. 5 



sub-median nervure, then suddenly bowed outwards, rather sliort ; palpi of the female 

 much longer than those of the male. 

 Type, Papilio amor, Fabricius. 



RATHINDA AMOR. 



Plate 706, figs. 4, (J , 4a, J , 4b, (J , 4c, d, larva and pupa. 



Papilio amor, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 518 (1775) ; id. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 113 (1781) ; id. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 65 (1787). Herbst, Pap. xi. p. 43, pi. 302, figs. 9, 10 (1804). 

 Hesperia amor, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (1), p. 260 (1793). 

 Polyommatus amor, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 620 (1823). 



Zephjrus amor, Guerin-Menevile, Icon. Reg. An. Ins. p. 490, pi. 81, fig. 6 (1844). 

 Myrina amor, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 184 (1869). 

 Mathinda amor, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 99, pi. 42, figs. 1, la, pi. 34, fig. lb, larva and pupa of 



Spalcjis epius, ex errore (1881). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 359. de Niceville, 



Butt, of India, iii. p. 414, pi. 29, fig. 227, $ (1890). Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. 



Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 389, pi. 5, figs. 7, 7a, larva and pupa. Aitken and Comber, id. vol. xv. 



1903, p. 49. 

 Sitlion amor, Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 277, pi. 95, 9 (1888). 

 Papilio iriopus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 320, figs. G, H (1780). 

 Myrina triopus, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 49, pi. 12, figs. 7, larva, 7a, pupa 



(1857). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 776. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brownish-black with a violet-tint. Forewing with a 

 white spot (sometimes slightly ochreous) beyond the end of the cell, with two smaller 

 spots in an outwardly oblique row from it. Ilindwiag with two black lunular spots 

 between the tails and indications of a third black spot in the next upper interspace, all 

 three capped with orange, with a fine blue thread on their outer sides ; tails black, tipped 

 with white. Cilia blackish, with white tips. Underside white, sometimes tinged with 

 yellow ; the markings pale chocolate. Forewing with the apical third chocolate, its 

 inner edge in an even curve from the middle of the costa to the hinder margin near the 

 angle, containing a sub-marginal series of small black lunules inwardly edged w^ith 

 white ; the middle portion of the white space with some chocolate suffusion, a thin 

 linear mark near the hinder angle, two short streaks from the base followed by three or 

 four small spots. Hindwing with a lunulated, outwardly curved discal line, the inner 

 wing space covered with spots and small lunular marks, a sub-marginal orange-yellow 

 band, lined on its inner side with dark chocolate, on its outer side by metallic blue- 

 green small spots, some pale chocolate sufiusion near the apex, a black spot between 

 the two upper tails, ringed with pale dull blue, white spots on each side of it, some 

 white on the outside of the yellow band near the costa ; both wings with a terminal, 

 narrow, chocolate band ochreous tinted. Antennge black, ringed with white ; the club 

 with an orange tip ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings. 



