132 LEPIDOPTERA INDIGA. 



of vein 2 ; male with a slightly indicated glandular space between the bases of the 

 costal and sub-costal nervures, on the upperside of the wing there is a tuft of 

 long hairs from the base of the cell, and the abdominal space covered with very long 

 hairs. Antennae gradually thickened to the tip. 



Genitalia, specialized, the tegumen being of a very simple hood-like shape (like a 

 sun-bonnet) with long slender hooks attached very simply to its lower extremity ; the 

 lateral supports are slender and the clasps well developed. 



Type, timoleon, Stoll. 



IRAOTA TIMOLEON. 



Plate 669, figs. 3, (f , 3a, ? , 3b, ,J , 3c, ? (Wet-season Brood), 3d, ^ (Dry-season Brood), 3e (larva 



and pupa). 



Papilio timoleon, Stoll, Suppl. Cramer, Pap. Exot. v. pi. 32, figs. 4, 4d, 5 (1790). 



Amhlypodia timoleon, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 44, pi. 12, figs. 3, larva ; 3a, pupa 

 (1857). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, i. pi. 2, larva and pupa (1882). AVood-Mason 

 and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 368. 



Deudorix timoleon, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p). 8, tig. 21, J (1863). 



Iraota timoleon, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 249. Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 279, pi. 96, ^ 

 (1888). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 359. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 

 p. 215, pi. 27, figs. 192, ^, 193, ? (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 531. Ehves, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 628. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 299. Da^-idson and Aitken, 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 352. Watson, id. 1891, p. 47. Mackinnon and de Nice\-ille, 

 id. 1898, p. 381. Aitken and Comber, id. vol. xv. 1903, p. 48. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. 1903, p. 9. Hannyngton, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1910, p. 366. 



Hesjperia msecenas, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 271 (1793). Donovan, Ins. China, pi. 39, fig. 2, ^ 

 (1798). 



Deudorix msecenas, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 25 (1863). Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 180 

 (1869). 



Iraota msecenas, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 102, pi. 40, figs. 2, (J , 2a, ?, 2b, larva and pupa (1881). 

 de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 48. Doherty, id. 1886, p. 126. de Niceville, 

 Butt, of India, iii. p. 216 (1890). Betham, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 180. Aitken 

 and Comber, id. vol. xv. 1903, p. 48. de Ehe-Philipe, id. 1905, p. 720. Bethune-Baker, Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 11. 

 Tlwcla nila, Kollar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. p. 413, pi. 4, figs. 5, 6, (J (1844). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 3, $, 3a, ?, 3b, $, 3c, ?). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing black, the basal two-thirds of the lower 

 area of the wing deep metallic blue, varying in extent in different specimens. 

 Hindwing also black, the disc deep metallic blue which also varies in extent, abdominal 

 marginal space pale, a glandular basal patch between veins 7 and 8 ; tail black, tipped 

 with white. Cilia of both wings black, tipped with white. Underside dark chocolate- 

 brown variegated, being paler in parts. Forewing a gradually formed club-sliaped 



