56 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Parantica Aglea, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. Lend. 1883, p. 2-18. 



Danais grammica, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. xi. fig. 10 ^ (1836). Doubleday and Hewitson 



D. Lep. p. 92 (1847). 

 Danais Ceylonica, Felder, Verh. Zool. Bot. Gesellsch. xii. p. 479 (1862). 

 Parantica Ceylonica, Moore, Lep. of Cej'lon, i. p. 8, pi. 2, fig. 2 ? 2a, larva (1880). 

 Danais {Paralitica) Ceylonica et grammica, Marshall and D'^^^icevilie, Butt, of India, pp. 39, 40 



(1882). 

 Papilio Similis (part), Linn. Mus. Ulr. p. 299 (1764). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside dark fuliginous-black. Forewing with a 

 subhyaliue bluish-white discoidal streak which is well divided anteriorly into three 

 parallel portions, the two upper being very slender, especially in the male ; a 

 lengthened streak below the cell, traversed by a broad, pointed, central black line, 

 the outer point sometimes cutting through the end ; five discal spots ; two sub- 

 apical slender short streaks ; three small costal spots above ; a submarginal row of 

 spots, and a mostly complete mai^ginal row of much smaller spots ; a pale slender 

 line along base of the costal border and a less defined posterior basal line. Hindwing 

 with broad subhyaline bluish-white discoidal streak traversed by a broad black bifid 

 line, the points of which sometimes cut through the end ; a discal series of broad 

 spots, the two lower of which have a contiguous or sometimes conjoined outer spot ; 

 a submarginal row of small spots and a marginal row of smaller spots, both these 

 rows in the male being relatively smaller and the outer row mostly incomplete. Male 

 ivith a large spatular-sliaped patcli of scent-scales on the lower median veinlet and a 

 small patch on the submedian vein, both veins being dilated at that part. Head and 

 thorax white spotted, a dorsal streak on thorax, palpi and femora beneath white ; 

 abdomen brown above, paler beneath. Underside dark brown ; markings more 

 clearly defined ; forewing with the lower subapical white streak longer and dilated 

 at the outer end, which is concave ; the upper discal spot also larger and concave 

 externally ; hindwing with the two upper discal interspaces elongated and in the 

 female sometimes confluent with the corresponding submarginal and marginal spots ; 

 sexual marks in male black, the traversing vein numerously white scaled. 



Expanse, 2f to 3^ inches. 



Adult Catekpillak. — Cylindrical ; ground colour reddish-purple ; two pairs of 

 black filaments on third segment and two on twelfth segment ; two subdorsal rows 

 of round chrome-yellow spots wdth several intervening tranversely disposed small 

 narrow white spots ; a lateral series of white dots, below which is a sublateral row of 

 chrome-yellow spots ; head, under surface and legs black ; head and legs white 

 spotted. Fig. la, on our plate 13, is from Mr. S. N. Ward's Malabar drawing, 

 and figs. 1 from Dr. Thwaite's Ceylon drawings. 



Chrysalis. — Green ; much constricted behind the thorax, front and wing cases 

 with blue and golden dots, anal segments above with raised black dots. 



