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outwardly oblique, lower shortest : hindwiug ovate, broad, exterior margin convex, 

 scalloped ; cell long. Antennse slender, club sbort and thick. Sexes similar. 



Larva cylindrical, attenuated posteriorly ; anterior segments scutellated, furnished 

 with two small tubercles on second segment and two on anal segment. Pupa convex 

 beneath, head slightly bifid, thorax conically projected in front. 



Ty]^G, 0. Demoleus. 



ORPHEIDES ERITHONITJS (Plate 61, Pig. 2 a, J). 



Papilio Erithonms, Cramer, Tap. Exot. iii. pi. 232, fig. A, B (1782). 



Papilio Epius, Fabricius, Eiit. Syst. iii. 1, p. 35, a (1793); Donovan, Ins. of China, pi. 29, fig. 2; 



Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 238. 

 Papilio Demoleus, Esper, Ausl. Schmett. pi. 50, f. 1, 4; Donovan, Tns. China, pi. 29, f. 1. 



Brownish-black : forewing with the basal area crossed by slender yellow strigae ; 

 an oblique discal series of irregular shaped yellow spots, two spots also within the 

 cell and a streak at its end, a regularly disposed submarginal row of more uniform 

 sized spots, and a row of very small spots on the extreme margin : hindwing with a 

 broad yellow subbasal irregular outer-bordered band, a submarginal series of spots, 

 and a marginal row of lunular spots ; the basal and interdiscal areas minutely yellow- 

 speckled ; a lunular spot of blue speckles on the costa between the band and discal 

 spot, and a carmine oval spot at the anal angle; in the female the costal blue spot is 

 much brighter, and the anal spot encloses a small upper black spot bordered by a 

 blue-speckled lunule. 



Expanse 3f to 3| inches. 



Larva cylindrical, thickest anteriorily ; green, with pale yellow lower lateral line, 

 head and legs ; a dark-bordered yellow dorsal band on edge of fourth segment, and 

 another ending in a lateral ocellated spot on third segment ; a pale lateral streak 

 obliquely ascending eighth and ninth segments, and an irregular upright streak on 

 tenth segment, a pair of short pointed tubercles on front and anal segment. Pupa 

 green. 



" Colombo. Very common also at Galle. Appears at Kandy, but not very 

 plentiful" {Wade). 



" Low country, and up to about 4000 feet. Abundant at all times of the year " 

 {Machwond). 



Genus ILIADES. 

 Iliades, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 88 (1816). 



Wings large. Forewing elongate triangular, costa arched, exterior margin very 

 oblique, posterior margin shortest ; first subcostal branch emitted at one- third and 

 second at one-fifth before end of the cell, third from its end, fifth at one-third from 

 below fourth ; discocellulars of equal length, upper slightly oblique, radial from their 



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