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and dry-season forms without the white smaller spot ; the black 

 costal patch beyond apex of cell, more or less obscure in typical 

 M. tela, is prominent in var. golcala and is extended to the upper 

 subapical spot. 



Race tambra, Moore. — -An insular form closely resembling the 

 Southern Indian race varaha, Moore, from which it differs in 

 being slightly larger, and in the ground-colour of the underside in 

 the wet-season form being always a rich dark purplish brown ; in 

 varaha it is dark blackish brown. The ocelli, too, in this form are 

 much more obsolescent than they are in the wet-season form of 

 varaha. 



Exp. <S 2 70-78 mm. (2:75-3-1"). 



Hab. Ceylon. 



Larva. "Elongated, thickened in the middle; head with two 

 long pubescent red processes ; anal segment also with two processes ; 

 colour green with longitudinal and transverse darker lines ; face 

 striped with red." {Moore.) 



Pupa. " Green. Head and thorax flattened." {Moore.) 



193. Melanitis zitenius (PI. Ill, fig. 24), Herbst (Papilio), Natursyst. 



Schmett. viii, 1796, p. 5, pi. 182, figs. 1, 2; M. fy de N. Butt. 



Ind. i, 1883, p. 258, pi. xii, fig. 29 $; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 



1893-96, p. 135, pi. 130, fiffs. 1, 1 a-1 d, tf $ , & pi. 131, figs. 1, 



1 a-1 c, S 2 • 

 Cyllo duryodana, Felder, Novara Reise, Lep. Rhop. 1867, p. 464 ; 



*M. 8r de N. (Melanitis) Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 257. 

 Melanitis kalinga, Moore, Lep. Ind. u, 1894, p. 137, pi. 131, 



figs. 2,2 a, 6- 



Wet-season form. — S 2 • Pore wing : costa strongly arched, apex 

 acute ; termen immediately below apex in S angulate, in $ falcate. 

 Upperside resembles M. ismene, but ground-colonr on the whole 

 somewhat warmer brown, a very broad patch of ochraceous yellow, 

 above and beyond the subapical black spots, larger in the 2 than 

 in the <$ . Underside closely irrorated with dark brown striae ; the 

 ocelli subequal, very much smaller and less clearly defined than in 

 M. ismene. 



Dry-season form. — <$ 2 • Costa of fore wing less strongly arched ; 

 apex in both sexes very falcate. Prom the wet-season form it 

 differs iu the greater amount of ochraceous yellow on the apex of 

 fore wing. This forms a very broad band passing from costa above 

 and beyond the subapical black spots, spreading below and encircling 

 them except for a narrow band which joins the spots to a large 

 black mark beyond apex of cell. Hind wing with two or three 

 white subterminal spots posteriorly. Underside as in M. ismene 

 but not quite so variable, the ocelli often entirely obsolete. 



Exp. S 2 82-90 mm. (3'25-3-5"). 



Hab. Sikhim ; S. India ; Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; 

 Andamans ; extending to the Malay Peninsula. 



Var. kalinga, Moore. — A specimen from Moore's own col- 

 lection, now in the British Museum, is the only one I have seen. 



YOL. I. M 



