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and at the anal angle by a black spot, the anal interspace of the band grey-speckled ; 

 tail black. Thorax and abdomen with black longitudinal band. 

 Expanse 2-| to 3 inches. 



" Eastern Province. Plains and forest. August. Taken only on one occasion, 

 on a journey from Kandy to Trincomalie, associated with P. Antijphates and 

 Z. Doson, sitting in numbers on damp places on the road, dense forest being on 

 both sides " (Hutchison). 



" Trincomalie " (Wade). 



" Low country only, and principally in the Northern Province. Very scarce " 

 (Machwood). 



Genus DALCHINA. 



Forewing elongated, triangular, attenuated and pointed at the apex, costa 

 slightly arched, exterior margin very long, oblique and nearly even, posterior margin 

 short ; cell very long, first and second subcostals at nearly equal distances apart, 

 first branch short and anastomosed to costal, second also touching the costal close 

 to its apex ; discocellulars inwardly oblique ; hindwing triangular, produced and 

 attenuated hindward, abdominal margin long, costa short and oblique, exterior 

 margin oblique, sinuous, and produced into a short, blunt-pointed tail at end of 

 upper median vein ; cell very long, narrow ; second subcostal very concave at the 

 base. Antennal club very short and thick. Body robust ; woolly. Sexes alike. 



Larva smooth, thickened about the third to fifth segments, and thence decreasing 

 to each end; with two minute short subdorsal fleshy prominences on the fourth 

 segment, two on the front of second, and two on the end of anal segment. Pupa 

 conical, truncated in front, thorax produced into a long pointed frontal prominence. 



Type, D, Sarpedon. 



DALCHINA TEREDON (Plate 62, Pm. 1, a, h). 



Papilio Teredon, Felder, Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. xiv. p. 305, No. 215 (1864); Novara Reise, Lep. i? 

 p. 61 (1865). 



Male and female. Black : forewing with a medial row of emerald-green spots from 

 the apex to the posterior margin, which are broader and quadrate but not separated 

 hindward, the two lower spots also being of a bluish tint : hindwing with a medial 

 transverse bluish-green band, the broad costal end of which is whitish, and a sub- 

 marginal row of four slender lunules. Underside cupreous-brown, with glossy bands 

 as above : hindwing with a crimson-bordered black spot at the costal inner end of 

 the band, and four similar lunular spots from the cell to below end of the band, and 

 another spot at anal angle. 



Expanse, c? 3, ? 3-| inches. 



