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(1780); Zemeros flegyas, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 459, n. 54; Papilio 

 allica, Fabricins, Mant. Ins., vol. ii, p. 52, n. 510 (1787) ; Zemeros phlegyas indAcus, 

 Frnhstorfer, Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., vol. xlii, p. 333 (1897) ; Zemeros Confucius, Kirby 

 (nee. Moore), The Entomologist, vol. xxxii, p. 31 (1899). 



Papilio flegyas was originally described from China, i.e., Southern 

 China, probably from the Canton region in which Hongkong is situated, 

 as this is the region from which all the old writers received all the 

 species from China which they described. Mr. Frnhstorfer doubts 

 Cramer's locality and records Z. " phlegyas " from East and West Java 

 only. He names the North Indian form Z. phlegyas indAcus, but Indian 

 specimens are identical with those from China. Mr. Kirby records 

 Z. confucius, Moore, from Hongkong, a species originally described from 

 the Island of Hainan off the coast of China. "Whether this species is 

 a good one or not I am unable to say, as I possess no butterflies from 

 Hainan. Dr. Holland says that it is a good species. In India the 

 larva feeds on Miesa, Natural Order ATyrsinese. 



55. Abisara echepjo, Stoll. 



Papilio echerius, Stoll, Cramer'3 Pap. Ex., Suppl., vol. v, p. 140, pi. xxxi, figs. 

 1, 1A, male; IB, female (1790); Alisara echerius, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1S95, p. 459, n. 55; Papilio odin, Fabriciu3, Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. 1, p. 56, n. 175 

 (1793) ; Lycsena zenodice, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 23, n. 174 (1816). 



I have not included in the synonymy given above the Papilio corio- 

 lanus of Fabricius, as it was described from " The Indies," and is said 

 to have a common [on both wings] ferruginous band, which does not 

 apply to the present species. Dr. Butler says it is well figured in the 

 unpublished "Icones " of Mr. Jones, a book not available in Calcutta. 

 The larva of the closely-allied A. fraterna, Moore, in Southern India 

 on Embelia and Ardisia, Natural Order Myrsinese; in Ceylon A. prunosa, 

 Moore, feeds on Ardisia of the same Natural Order. 



Family LTC^NID^. 

 56. Geetdus chinexsis, Felder. 



Miletus chinensis, Felder, Verh, zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, vol. xii, p. 488, n. 

 146 (1862) ; Eeise Nov., Lep., vol. ii, p. 284, n. 364, pi. xxxv, figs. 35, 36, female 

 (1865) ; Gerydus chinensis, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 460, n. 57. 



The transformations of no species of Gerydus is known. 



57. Neopithecops zaliiora. Butler. 



Pithecops zabnora, Butler, Cat. Fab. Lep. B. M,, p. 161(1869); Neopithecops 

 eahnora, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 460, n. 58. 



