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vein 3 emitted just before the lower end of the cell, 2 from the middle, internal 

 nervure strongly recurved, wing broader than in the male ; the tail in the male filiform, 

 in the female much longer and heavily ciliated on both sides ; anal lobe large ; body 

 robust. Antennae with a long, thickened club ; the male without secondary sexual 

 characters. 



Type, Papilio eryx, Linnaeus. 



LEHERA ERYX. 



__ Plate 711, figs. 1, ^, la, ?, lb, <J . 



Papilio eryx, Linnaeus, Manfc. Plant, p. 537 (1771). Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 522 (1775). 



Deudorix eryx, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 180 (1869). Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 279, 



pi. 96, 9 (1888). 

 Lehera eryx, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. 1883, p. 529, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 444, pi. 29, 



fig. 236, $ (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 530. Swinhoe, id. 1893, p. 305. 



Dudgeon, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. x. 1896, p. 335. Watson, id. 1897, p. 667. 

 Papilio amyn/or, Herbst. Pap. xi. p. 27, pi. 300, figs. 5, 6, ? (1804). 

 Deudorix amyntor, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 17, pi. 8, figs. 19, 20, (J (1863). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside glistening dark purplish-blue gradually merging into 

 the broad black borders. Forewing with the costa above the cell to its end black, the 

 apical third black, its inner edge straight across (but not sharply defined) to below 

 vein 2, and from thence, for the short space, evenly and narrowly to the hinder 

 angle. Hindioing with the costal space broadly black, the band narrowing gradually 

 and diffusedly hindwards to near the anal angle, then broadly up the abdominal space, 

 thickly clothed with long fur-like modified scales, increasing in width upwards, leaving 

 but a narrow discal space purplish-blue, abdominal fold very pale ; anal lobe blue- 

 green, this colour extending narrowly up the abdominal margin for a short distance ; 

 tail black, tipped with white. Cilia brown. Underside bright green. Forewing with 

 the hinder marginal space pale greenish-grey, a line of disconnected, small and 

 indistinct greenish-white lunular marks, its upper portion curving round inwards 

 to the costa. Hlndwing with a similar but more prominent discal series which has a 

 short outward curve below the second lunule ; a black spot on the anal lobe, with a 

 small white spot on each side of it, and some antesiliary small white marks, which in 

 .some specimens run into each other, forming a white thread above the anal angle. 

 Antennae black, without white rings ; the clubs with dull orange tips ; palpi ochreous, 

 last joints black ; frons and head green, eyes ringed w^ith white ; body black above, 

 ochreous beneath. 



Female. Upperside blackish-brown. Forewing without markings. Ilindwing 

 with the anal third, from the abdominal margin decreasingly to the discoidal interspace 

 pure white, its inner edge uneven ; in some examples the brown colour runs in and 

 forms long spots on the outer part ; anal lobe with a large green spot in it ; the white 



