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" Widely distributed in low country and hills up to 6000 feet, both in forest and 

 cultivated lands. Found all the year in the hills, variable and not so common in the 

 plains. Flight slow, skimming, but shy, and not easy to capture" (Hutchison). 



" Common all the year round in low country and up to 4000 feet " {Machivood): 



Genus BYBLIA. 



BtjhUa, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 28 (1816). 



Hypanis, Boisduval, Faun. Mad. p. 55 (1853) ; Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 410 (1851). 



Wings short: forewing elongate-triangulate, costa arched at base, apex not 

 acute, exterior margin waved, oblique and slightly convex, posterior margin short ; 

 costal vein dilated at the base ; first subcostal branch short, emitted near to end of 

 the cell, second immediately above end of the cell, third from its end, fourth and. 

 fifth at equal distance apart from base of third ; cell short ; upper discocellular bent 

 very close to subcostal and concave below the angle, the radials from its angle 

 and end; lower discocellular very slender, slightly oblique; upper median branch 

 from end of the cell, second emitted before its end, lower from opposite first 

 subcostal: hindwing bluntly conical; costal margin long, exterior margin waved; 

 cell triangular. Veins similar to those in Brgolis. Body slender; palpi porrect, 

 pilose beneath, slender, second joint projecting much beyond front of head, third 

 joint long and cylindrical ; legs slender ; antennae slender, with a well-formed flat 

 club. 



BYBLIA ILITHYIA (Plate 23, Fig. 3, 3a). 



Papilio Ilithyia, Drury, 111. Exbt. Ins. ii. pi. 17, f. 1, 2 (1773); Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 213, f. 



A, B, pi. 214, f. C, D. 

 Byhlia Ilithya, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 28. 

 Papilio Polinice, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 375, f. G, H (1782). 

 Hypanis PoZmzc«,' Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 9, f. 6. 



Male. Upperside bright ferruginous, with black costal and exterior marginal 

 borders; three short streaks crossing the cell of forewing, a discocellular lobular 

 streak joined beneath to an irregular band extending across base of the hindwing, 

 and followed by a lower row of small spots ; a submarginal band, broken below the 

 costa of forewing, extending to the anal angle, and from which runs a longitudinal 

 line along each vein to the outer border. 



Female with the black basal markings narrower and more confluent, with suffused 

 dusky basal interspaces, the submarginal band broader and to which is joined an 

 inner row of lunules, the outer spaces being macular. Cilia alternated with white. 

 Underside paler, forewing marked as above ; borders of the costal streaks and a row 



