144 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Larva smooth, green, with a paler lower lateral line, and a yellow dorsal band 

 ending in a lateral tubercular spot on fourth segment ; a pair of short tubercles on 

 front and anal segment. Pupa green, with lateral and dorsal longitudinal yellowish 

 streaks. Feeds on Ginnamomeum. 



"Kandy; Galle. Common" (T^We). 



" Numerous everywhere. In dry season dozens together are to be seen on the 

 damp sandy spots near streams " {MacJavood). 



Genus ZETIDES. 



Zetides, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 85 (1816). 



Forewinsr of a broader trians-ular form than in Dalchina, costa more arched, 

 exterior margin more concave and sinuous ; cell broader at the base ; first subcostal 

 at one-sixth before end of the cell, and anastomosed to the costal, second at one-third 

 between the first and end of the cell; discocellulars less oblique, upper longest: 

 hindwing broader, shorter, and less produced hindward : exterior margin scalloped, 

 and in some with a short blunt or slightly spatular tail. Body stouter, less woolly. 

 Antenna comparatively shorter, club short and spatular. Sexes alike. 



Larva more robust than in Dalchina, thicker, with longer pointed fleshy 

 tubercles. Pupa with blunt projecting frontal thoracic process. 



Type, Z. Burypylus.* 



ZETIDES TELEPUUS (Plate 63, Fig. 3). 



Papilio Telephus, Felder, Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. xiv. p. 305, No. 221 (1864); Reise Novara, Lep. i. 

 p. 364 (1865). 



Male and female. Black : forewing with three pale emerald-green streaks 

 crossing the cell, and a lobate spot at its end, five small spots beyond, and an oblique 

 transverse discal series of five larger spots, the lower being of a bluer tint and 

 increasing in width, a submarginal row of small regular-sized spots : hindwing with 

 a ti^ansverse medial bluish-green band (the costal end of which is whitish), and a 

 submarginal row of small spots. Underside brown, with markings as above, but 

 larger and somewhat of a dull nacreous tint : hindwing with a crimson spot crossing 

 the black costal division of the medial band, and crimson-bordered black spots on its 

 lower outer end and up the abdominal margin. 



Expanse, S 2\, ? 2| inches. 



"Kandy; Galle. Common " (PFa^^e). 



" Low country only, and principally in the Northern Province " (Machwood). 



* Hiibner baving figni-ed an allied species in tlie second vol. of bis Samml. Exot. Schmett., bis action 

 thus fixes this form as the type of Zetides. 



