EJJPLCEINjE. 



Pupa somewliat cylindrical, posterior end hemispherical, anterior ending in two 

 slight prominences; bright green, with a dorsal ring of silvery dots, and a few 

 scattered golden dots. 



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SALATURA CHRYSIPPUS (Plate 3, Fig. \a, h). 



Papilio chrysippus, LinnsBus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 767 (1767); Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 118, f. B, C. 

 Danais chrysippus, Godart, Enc, Metb. ix. p. 187; Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. pi. 4, f. 7, 7a. 



Male and female. Upperside : forewing with the costal margin and apical area 

 to posterior angle browaish-black, the basal area including the veins fulvous-red, two 

 very small white spots on middle of the costa, one beyoud the cell, one above the 

 disc, two on the submargin, an incomplete marginal row and two or three before -the 

 apex, and an oblique subapical series of larger spots : hind wing with a black narrow 

 sinuous marginal band and row of very small white spots, the inner area fulvous-red, 

 three small black spots at end of the cell. Male with a black quadrate scent- 

 pouch situated close to the lower median vein between it and the submedian. Head, 

 thorax, and palpi ivhite spotted, thorax above and femora beneath white streaked; 

 abdomen red above, white beneath. Underside as above, the fulvous colour being 

 paler and brighter, the white spots more prominent, those at end of the cell white 

 bordered, and the pouch mark in male white centred. 



Expanse 2f to 3 inches. 



Larva cylindrical, with a pair of black fleshy filaments on third, sixth, and twelfth 

 segments, the filaments crimson at the base ; pale bluish-grey with transverse dorsal 

 black streaks and chrome-yellow bands ; lateral band chrome-yellow ; head and legs 

 black striped with blue-grey. Pupa somewhat cyHndrical, semitransparent, pinkish- 

 white or green, a raised golden spot on each eye, and a few golden spots scattered on 

 the surface, a black tubercular ridge and a dorsal row of golden dots along fourth 

 segment of abdomen. Feeds on Galotropis gigantea and Asclepias curasavica. 



Genus PARANTICA. 



Forewing long, narrow, hind margin lengthened ; first subcostal branch emitted 

 at one-fourth before end of the cell and touching the costal near its end, second 

 emitted immediately befpre end of the cell ; cell long, narrow : hindwing somewhat 

 elongated, exterior margin very convex, abdominal margin short, costal vein arched 

 from base and thence extending along edge of the margin ; cell very long and narrow. 

 Male with two spatular-shaped scent-pouches, one (the largest) being on the lower 

 median vein, the other (about one-fourth its size) on the submedian vein, near their 

 end, each being visible on the underside by the slender swelling of these veins at that 



