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" A complete series of seven subdiscal blue lunules, of which the three 

 anterior stand at the outer edge of the white discal marks, and of 

 which the two posterior are situated within the anal and subanal rufous 

 spots." It is a very common insect at all elevations, but especially so 

 in the low country. It is difficult to capture in good condition from 

 its habit of flying in and out of the jungle which soon tatters it. Dr. 

 Moore describes the transformations of this species, but does not give 

 the food-plant of the larva, which, however, is almost certain to be 

 plants of the Natural Order Butacese. 



178. Papilio PARiNDA, Moore. 



Moore as Iliades parinda. An abundant species in the low country 

 and lower hill districts of Ceylon, to which island it is confined. The 

 females are much rarer than the males. A very conspicuous insect on 

 the wing and invariably figures in the boxes of insects sold to confiding 

 passengers at exorbitant prices by rascally natives. In South India 

 and northwards to Bengal it is replaced by the parent form, P. polym- 

 nestor, Cramer. The larva feeds on Butacece, especially on plants of 

 the genus Citrus. 



179. Papilto polttes, Linngeus. 



Moore as Laertias romulus, Cramer. Abundant everywhere in 

 Ceylon, and found throughout India, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Indo- 

 China, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Sumatra. Dr. Moore 

 describes its transformations but does not mention the pabulum of the 

 larva, which is plants of the Natural Order Butacese. 



J 80. Papilio lankeswara, Moore. 



Dr. F. Moore as Chilasa dissimilis, Linnaeus, 0. clytio'iJes, Moore, and 

 C. lankeswara. The Hon. Walter Rothschild in Nov. Zool., vol. ii, p. 368 

 (1895) gives P. lankeswara sub-specific rank, with clytio'ides and dis- 

 similis as aberrations, all three restricted to Ceylon, the parent form 

 being P. c^h'a, Linnseus, from Northern India. He notes that "The 

 local races of P. clytia are all variable, but we have here a very curious 

 example of incongruous variation : P. clytia, P. clytia lankeswara, and 

 P. clytia panope are pronouncedly dimorphic. To each of these three 

 geographical races belong a clytia and a dissimilis form ; while, however, 

 the clytia-iorm. develops in the respective localities into a subspecies, its 

 aberration dissimilis, though very variable in every locality, remains 

 the same. The dissimilis from Ceylon, Assam, Tenasserim, etc., are 

 indistinguishable ; the clytia from there exhibits certain obvious differ- 

 ences. In Palawan and the Philippines the clytia iorm alone occurs, the 



