50 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Papilio plinius, Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 4.5, fig. 1 (1800). 



Polyommatus plinius, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 658 (1823). 



Lijcsena plinius, Hovsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 72 (1828). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 528. 



Tarucus plinius, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 82, pi. 36, fig. 4 (1881). Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1884, p. 506, and 1885, p. 133, and 1886, p. 427. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, 

 p. 357. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 194 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1890, p. 34. Davidson and Aitken, id. p. 353. de Niceville, id. p. 386. Watson, id. 1891, p. 47. 

 Betham, id. p. 179. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 628. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 

 p. 297. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 661. Nurse, id. 1899, p. 512. de Rhe- 

 Philipe, id. 1902, p. 489. Aitken and Comber, id. vol. xv. 1903, p. 48. Bingham, Fauna of 

 Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 420 (1907). 



Lampides cassius, var. plinius, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 164 (1869). 



? plinius, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 132. 



Tarucus telicanus, Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 381. 



AVet-season Brood (Figs. 2, $, 2a, ?, 2b, ?). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violet-grey, both wings witb terminal black line 

 with a narrow blackish edging, widest at the apex, gradually decreasing hindwards, the 

 markings of the underside more or less visible through the wings ; tail black tipped 

 with white. Cilia white. Underside white, markings dark chocolate-brown. Foreicing 

 a sub-costal streak from the base, a short spear-shaped streak below it, six irregular 

 transverse bands close together : 1st outwardly curved, its upper end touching the end 

 uf the sub-costal streak; the 2nd commencing in a point at the costa just before the 

 middle and thickening hindwards to the middle of the hinder margin ; the 3rd from 

 the costa, outwardly oblique and sinuous, thickening somewhat hindwards to vein 2, 

 then suddenly fining downwards ; the 4th in three pieces, outwardly curved, commencing 

 with a short outwardly oblique band from the costa, followed by a rather large round 

 spot, and then a thin streak obliquely inwards to the hinder margin ; the 5th a short 

 sinuous outwardly oblique band from the costa, one-fifth from the apex ; the 6th a thin 

 similar band beyond it. Hind wing with seven transverse, disjointed bands, mostly 

 outwardly curved from the costa to the abdominal margin, both wings with fine 

 terminal line, sub-terminal somewhat sinuous thicker line, and between them a series 

 of spots, somewhat lunular, larger on the hind than on the forewing, a large black spot 

 containing a ring of metallic scales in interspace 2, and two black similar dots near 

 the anal angle, all ringed with orange-oehreous. Antennse, head and body black, shafts 

 of antennae with white rings, thorax with blue pubescence. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing with the ground colour white with a violet tinge, 

 the costa broadly black, the outer margin very broadly black, the base suffused with 

 black and with some blue scales, a transverse, ante-medial outwardly curved black band, 

 a post-medial outwardly oblique and nearly straight band, followed by two or three 

 spots merging into the outer border, the black predominating all over the wing except 



