58 THE LEPIDOPTEBA OF CEYLON. 



APATUEA BOLINA (Plate 30, Fig. 1 $,\h, larva). 



Papilio Bolina, Linnseus, Mus. Ulr. p. 295 (1764); Syst. Nat. i. p. 781 (1767); Clerck, Icones, pi. 21, f. 2. 

 Diadenia Bolina, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, p. 278. 



Male. Blackisli violet-brown: forewing with a glossy blue-bordered white 

 oblique subapical vein-divided patch, and a submarginal recurved row of minute 

 white spots terminating on the costa in a large vein-divided spot : hindwing with a 

 large medial discal glossy blue-bordered white patch, a discal row of five or six minute 

 white spots, and in some specimens a pale brown or ochreous-white marginal band 

 having a sinuous inner border, and an outer marginal lunular line. Female dark 

 olive-brown : forewing with, a few blue speckles along base of costa ; a submarginal 

 row of pale ochreous-white, and an incomplete outer row of lunate spots : hindwing 

 with an ochreous-white marginal macular band bordered within by a row of small 

 round spots; an outer marginal line of broken lunules. Underside of both sexes 

 paler; male with a jDrominent bluish-white subapical oblique band, a submarginal 

 row of spots and two marginal incomplete narrow lunular bands ; some speckled- 

 white spots along upper side of the cell : hindwing with a broad medial transverse 

 bluish- white band, two lunate spots at anal angle, a discal row of spots, an inner 

 marginal band, and an outer marginal lunular line, the inner marginal band sometimes 

 brownish-grey. Female with marginal band as on upperside, a very indistinct 

 oblique subapical fascia on forewing, and a transverse similar band on hindwing. 



Expanse, S 2f , ? Sj inches. 



Larva purple-brown, head armed with two long erect branched spines, the 

 segments with a dorsal row of three (two only on the anterior and posterior 

 segments) long branched red spines, and three lateral rows of spines. Pupa thick, 

 purple-brown, blotched with black; abdominal segments with stout pointed dorsal 

 tubercles ; head obtuse, pointed in front, thorax angular at top. 



" Very common from seaboard up to 6000 feet early in the year, haunting deep 

 cuttings through fern and brushwood lands. They are to be found in thousands 

 and in smaller numbers all the year round. Males twice as numerous as females " 

 (MacTcivood). 



"Has a quick darting flight; settles on the ground; rather shy" {Hutchison). 



APATUEA JACINTH A (Plate 30, Fig. la?). 



Papilio Jacintha, Drury, Illust. Exot. Ent. ii. pi. 21, f. 1, 2 (1773), 5 ; Donovan, Ins. China, pi. 33, 



f. 1 (1798); Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 133. 

 Papilio Avia, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. Ill (1793), g . 



Male and female. Of larger size than A. Bolina, but similarly marked; the 



