78 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



JITNONIA ALMANA. 



Dry -season form (Plate 314, fig. 1, larva and /*«;)«, la, Vi, c, (^ ? ). 



Papilio Almana, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. x. ed. p. 472 (1758) ; xii. p. 769 (1767). Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 



p. 490 (1775). Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 58, fig. F, G (1775). Herbst, Pap. pi. 172, fig. 1, 2 



(1794). Donovan, Ins. China, pi. 36, fig. 2 (1798). 

 Alcyoneis Almana, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 35 (1816). 

 Jiinonia Almana, Doubleday and Hevvits. Gen. D. Lep. p. 209 (1849). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. 



E. I. C. i. pi. 12, Sg. 12, 12a, larva a.n(X pupa (1857). Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 72 



(1869). Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 128. de Niceville, Butt. India, etc., ii. p. 61 (1886). 



Imago. — Male and female. Forewing with the extreme edge of exterior margin 

 even and acutely angulated outward below the apex and obtusely at end of lower 

 median. Hindwing also even and obtusely angulated at end of upper median and 

 prolonged at anal angle. Upperside ochreous-red, basal areas slightly infuscated. 

 Foreiving with the costal border and outer margin ochreous-brown ; two black 

 sinuous lines crossing middle of the cell, two at its end with the internal area dark 

 bluish-black, followed by a somewhat similar black narrower fascia, between which 

 and the apex is a subtriangular black patch more or less enclosing two ocellated 

 spots, the upper spot smallest or generally obsolete, the lower spot blue-black with 

 whitish-speckled centre ; a lower-discal larger similar ocellated spot, with black 

 outer ring, between the middle and lower medians ; a submarginal and two marginal 

 blackish sinuous lines. Ilindiving with a very large upper-discal ocellated spot, 

 which is purplish with two small inner dentate dots and outer black patch, yellow 

 ring and outer black ring ; a much smaller similar lower-discal ocellated spot with 

 small white dot, which is more or less ill-defined and sometimes obsolete ; sub- 

 marginal and marginal sinuous lines as on forewing, but more defined. Uaderside 

 pale or obscure brownish-ochreous. Forewing crossed by three obscure basal darker 

 sinuous fasciae, a discal slender sinuous pale line, an outer-discal dusky fascia 

 traversed by a row of small blackish dots and a lower ill-defined ocellus, followed 

 by a submarginal sinuous line. Hindiring crossed by a subbasal wavy pale ochreous 

 line and a straight dark-edged discal line, an outer-discal row of small blackish dots, 

 of which the upper two and sometimes the lowest are obscurely ocellate, followed by 

 a submarginal sinuous brown line. Body above ochreous-red ; palpi above brownish- 

 ochreous ; body and palpi beneath and legs pale whitish-ochreous ; antennae dark 

 brown above, beneath and tip ochreous. 



Expanse, <S 1^% to 2^^, ? 2i^o to 2^^ inches. 



WeUseason form (Plate 314, fig. 1, d, e, f, J ? ). 



Papilio Asterie, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. x. ed. p. 472 (1758) ; xii. p. 769 (1767). Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 

 p. 490 (1775). Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 58, fig. D, E (1775). Herbst, Pap. p. 131, pi. 172, 

 fig. 3, 4 (1794). 



