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coloured fleshy crest, that on the fourth ending on each side in an eye-like spot; a 

 brown-streaked' cream-coloured oblique band ascending from base of seventh segment, 

 and is nearly united with that from the opposite side on back of ninth segment ; a 

 similar-coloured broken lateral band on the tenth segment, which is continued round 

 base of anal segment, the latter segment with two small pointed fleshy tubercles. 

 Pupa curved anteriorly ; head flattened and slightly bifid, thorax conical in front, 

 abdominal segments with short dorsal tubercles. Colour olive-brown. 



Dr. Thwaites remarks, " I have repeatedly reared the three forms of female' 

 from larvse apparently quite indistinguishable from one another." 



" Kandy and Galle. These three butterflies are very common, especially those 

 of the first form; the second form, perhaps, least so " (JVade). 



" Everywhere; more abundant in the low country" (MacJcivood). 



Genus MENELAIDES. 



Menelaides, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. S-t (1816). 



Forewing elongated, narrow in male, more triangular in female ; apex very convex, 

 exterior margin long and very oblique, posterior margin very short ; cell long and 

 narrow, extending two-thirds the wing ; first subcostal emitted at two- fifths and second 

 at one-fifth before end of the cell ; upper discocellular shortest : hindwing very short, 

 narrow, and much produced hindward ; exterior margin scalloped and furnished with 

 a more or less developed tail ; cell short, broadest across the middle ; first subcostal 

 at one-fourth before end of the cell ; upper discocellular very long and oblique, twice 

 the length of lower. Antennal club gradually thickened. Sexes similar. 



Larva stout, cylindrical ; furnished with rows of fleshy tubercles. Pupa stout ; 

 head and thorax with rounded lateral angles, thorax conical, abdominal segments 

 with dorsal and lateral foliated protuberances ; wing-cases dilated. 



Type, M. Polydorus. 



MENELAIDES CEYLONICA (Plate 57, Fig. 2, a, b). 



Allied to M. Aristolocliice. 



Male, brownish-black. Female, olivaceous-black : forewing with pale streaks 

 between the veins and at end of the cell: hindwing with an ochreous- white broad 

 medial discal macular band, composed of five elongated spots outside end of the 

 cell and a sixth small indentated spot within end of the cell ; a submarginal 

 series of broad dusky-red lunules. Front of head, sides of thorax, and abdomen 

 beneath crimson. 



Expanse 3 to 4 inches. 



Larva purple-brown, with two dorsal rows of purple tubercles, and two rows of 



