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interspaces and a terminal jet-black slender line ; cilia alternately 

 dusky black and white. Hind wing blue shaded with velvety black 

 towards base ; a postdiscal black white-centred orange and black- 

 ringed ocellus in interspace 2, a round minutely white-centred 

 velvety black spot (sometimes entirely absent) in interspace 5 ; 

 the termen narrowly white, traversed by an inner and an outer 

 subterminal and a terminal black line ; cilia white. Underside 

 fore wing: basal half with three black-edged, sinuous, broad, 

 ochraceous-orange transverse bands, followed by the pale discal 

 band ; ocelli, preapical short bar, subterminal and terminal 

 markings much as on the upperside ; the discal band margined 

 inwardly by a broad black angulated line which follows the outline 

 of the black area of the upperside. Hind wing irrorated with 

 dusky scales and transversely crossed by subbasal and discal 

 slender zigzag brown lines and a postdiscal dark shade, on which 

 are placed the two ocelli as on the upperside ; subterminal and 

 terminal faint brown lines, and a brownish short streak tipped 

 black at the tornal angle below the lower ocellus. — $ . Similar, 

 with similar but larger and more clearly defined ocelli and 

 markings ; the basal half of the fore and hind wings on the upper- 

 side fuliginous brown, scarcely any trace of blue on the hind wing. 

 Antennae brown, head reddish brown, thorax and abdomen above 

 brownish black ; palpi, thorax and abdomen beneath dull white. 



Exp. cJ $ 54-62 mm. (2-15-2-45"). 



Hah. India ; Ceylon ; Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; extending 

 to China and the Malayan Subregion. 



Larva. " Head and body of a very dark shining black shading 



into brown head on a short neck, latter of an orange 



colour for a short distance ; caudal extremity also tipped with 

 orange. Body covered with perpendicular spines armed with 



strong radial hairs Head bifurcated, reddish spot in centre 



of face, a small spinous process in the angle of each eye." 

 (Forsayetli fide de Niceville.) 



" Pupa suspended by tail, naked ; wing-covers of a muddy 

 yellow ; rest of body of a purplish colour variegated by lines of a 

 dull creamy white. Slight projections of an angular nature along 

 abdomen." {Idem.) 



Specimens from Burma and other regions of heavy rainfall are 

 more richly coloured than those procured from the dry districts of 

 India. 



373. Junonia atlites, Johansson (Papilio), Centur. Ins. 1763, p. 24 ; 

 Kit hy, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 145 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, 

 p. 69 ; Davidson, Bell fy Aitken, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x, 1896, 

 p. 250 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 67, pi. 310, figs. 1, 

 1 a-1 d, rf 2 y larva & pupa. 

 Papilio laomedia, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii, 1767, p. 772 ; Moore 

 (Precis), Lep. Ceyl. \, 1881, p. 40, pi. 21, fig. 2. 



<$ $ . Upperside pale lavender-brown, apical half of wings 

 paler. Pore wing : cell with three transverse, short, sinuous black 



