156 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



aud a lateral row of single sliort bristles, one to each segment, and below these, at the 

 bases of the legs, tufts of strong bristles, those on the 2ud, 3rd aud 4th segments 

 springing from warty processes. The colour is green, with more or less of a reddish 

 tino-e on the back at the 3rd and 4th segments ; but young larvse show more brown 

 than green, and there is doubtless a good deal of variation. 



Pupa, stout and broad, with the thorax humped, and the undersurface somewhat 

 fiat, the last segment is peculiarly prolonged and expanded, by this alone the pupa is 

 firmly attached to a strong web of silk in a loose half-open leaf-cell. (Davidson, Bell 

 and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — South India, Ceylon. 



Distribution. — Eecorded by Moore from Ceylon, l)y Davidson and Aitken from 

 Karwar, by Hampson from the Nilgiris ; we have taken it at several places in and 

 about Bombay, and have it also from Bolahat in the Malda District. 



Sub-Family APHN^IN^. 



Structure very ordinary. Forewing with three sub-costal nervules, upper discoidal 

 Mild middle discocellulars have a common origin (a rather unusual character). Ihuda-uhj 

 with two tails, the inner the longer ; no secondary sexual characters. The sub-family 

 contains two genera, Aphnseus, Hiibner, and Aphnsemorpha, de Niceville,* the latter 

 differing from Aphnseus in having four sub-costal nervules to the forewing, and being 

 purely African ; the many species of the genus Aphnasus are very widely distributed, 

 occurring plentifully in Africa, Asia Minor, Persia, throughout India, even in some of 

 the desert tracts, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands, Burma, the Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago ; one pattern runs with variations throughout all the species ; the upper- 

 side is mostly brown, the males generally glossed with iridescent blue, many have an 

 orange upper disc in the forewing with brown bands across it, the underside varies 

 from white to pale yellow, in some species with a shade of ochreous-brown, and all have 

 transverse brown or black bands, often marked with silver, which are more or less 

 visible on the upperside. 



Moore takes Papillo areas, Drury, an African insect with four sub-costal nervules to 

 the forewing, as the type of the genus, but he correctly described the real type which 

 has but three ; the genus, however, is Hiibner's, who placed but two species in it, Papilio 

 vulcanus, Fabricius, and Papilio orcas, Drury ; the first mentioned, in accordance with 

 the rules of priority, must be taken as the type ; as we have stated before, no one luit 



* Butt, of India, iii. p. U7 (1890). 



