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acutely pointed at apex ; colours similar but less green ; the subbasal pale band wider ; 

 the broad band crossing the middle of the wing replaced by a broad nebulous area, 

 crossed by an angular band of olive-brown ; no white spot at apex ; secondaries 

 altogether redder, especially towards apex; underside altogether paler and testaceous 

 instead of rosy. Expanse of wings, 6 2 inches 9 lines, ? 3 inches 3 lines. 



6 ? , Java (Horsfield). Type, B.M. 



The pupa-skin of the female shows that this species differs in that stage from I). 

 hypothoiis by being much less heavily spotted with black longitudinally ; the two species, 

 however, are so abundantly distinct that it does not require differences in the early 

 stages to separate them with ease. 



7. Daphnis minima, n. sp. (PL XCII. fig. 5.) 



Much like a minute, pale, undercoloured J), horsfieldii. Wings above whity brown 

 or brownish grey ; primaries crossed by a basal and an angulated central clay-coloured 

 band; a brown-edged greyish transverse discal line ; outer margin, especially near apex, 

 chocolate-brown ; inner margin chocolate-brown at external angle ; discal area from 

 external angle to end of cell suffused with clay-colour ; secondaries with external two 

 thirds reddish-brown, interrupted by a disco-submarginal whitish line from anal angle 

 to apical costa : body as in D. hors/leldii, but paler : wings below nearly as in D. hors- 

 fieldii ; no white point in cell of secondaries. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. 



South India (S. JV. Ward). Type, Coll. F. Moore. 



By far the smallest species in the genus. The larva is golden green, with a lateral 

 white-dotted longitudinal blue line, and above it a reddish orange line, terminating 

 towards the head in two small white-zoned black ocelli ; the lateral and ventral surfaces 

 are covered with granular white dots ; the feet, claspers, and horn orange ; the latter 

 black-tipped ; spiracles reddish orange ; an oblique white line on anal claspers. 



8. Daphnis placida. 



Darapsa placida, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 186. no. 8 (1856). 

 Sumatra. 



9. Daphnis bhaga. 



Darapsa bhaga, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 791. 



N.E. Bengal {Russell). Type, Coll. F. Moore. 



A very remarkable species, having a long curved apical hook to the primaries. 



