RIIOPALOCERA MA LA YA XA . 



threatened with the net." * Mr. L, de Niceville states that the " species contains in itself the 

 elements of protection in having a very strong somewhat rose-like odour, which is probably 

 distasteful to birds." t 



The larva and pupa of this insect were discovered by Horshelcl in Java, drawings of which 

 have been published. J In India the larva is recorded as feeding on " Aristohchia:' § 



PEBANTHUS Group. ' 



c. P*jYtntfafji-groiip f Wallace, Trans, Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 28 (1865). 

 Sect. LX11L, Subject. C, Felder, Spec, Lepia, Pap, pp. 84, 83 (1864), 

 HitnmaUt, Moore, Lop. Ceyl, vol. i. p. 145 (1681). 



The characters of this and the four following groups are thus given by Mr. Wallace : — 



"Larva witb third segment (swollen, transversely or obliquely banded; pupa much bent. Imago 

 with abdominal margin in SF plaited, but not reflexed." Posterior wings often caudately produced. 



This is a small and distinctly coloured group of Papilios, all more or less marked with 

 metallic -greenish scales. P. peranthus, Fabr. (the name of which Mr. Wallace has applied to the 

 group) is found in Java and some of the neighbouring islands, most of the other species being 

 scattered throughout the Malayan Archipelago ; the group is also represented in Continental 

 India ; one species is found in Ceylon and one in this fauna, 



6, Papilio brama. (Tab* XXXII., fig. 4*.) 



Papilw Bmma, Guerin, Rev. ZooL 1840, p. 48, t. l.f.B, 4; Deless, Souv. Inde t ii. p. 71 (1848) ; Wall. Ett&a* 



Linn. Soc. vol. xxv, p. 46 s u. 89 {1866) ; Dmce, Proc. Zool. Hoc. 187S t p. 867, n. 16. 

 jP, Palimim*, De Haan (nee Fabr.j, Vera. Nat. Ges, Ned. overs. Bob, p. 28, t. 7, f- 8 (1840). 



Male. Wings above fuscous, thickly covered with minute greenish scales; anterior wings with a 

 transverse metallic-greenish fascia crossing wing at end of cell— where it is narrowest — and reaching inner 

 margin near outer angle — where it is broadest; posterior wings with a similarly coloured fascia crossing 

 wing from between the subcostal nervnles— where it is broadest — to the abdominal margin near anal 

 angle — where it is narrowest ; a dark spot lanulated with dull red anil violaceous at anal angle, and a 

 marginal series of greenish lunulate spots; caudate appendages dark fuscous, Wings beneath dark 

 brownish, somewhat thickly covered with minute ochraeeous scales; anterior wings with a broad pale 

 brownish fascia transversely crossing wing near apes — broadest at costal margin and narrowest at outer 

 angle j posterior wings with the outer margin paler and containing a marginal series of dark lunulate spots 

 irrorated with dull reddish and violaceous, the spot at apes inwardly grey [ ah -white. Body above and 

 beneath with legs more or leas concolorous with wings. 



Female. Resembling the male, but larger, and with the metallic -greenish fascia to the anterior 

 wings narrower. 



Exp. wings, i? , 88 to 90 millim. ; ? , 100 roiliim. 



Had— Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Biggs— coll. Diet.).— Sumatra 

 (Wallace). — Borneo (Druce). 



This was considered one of the rarest species when the writer collected in the 

 Peninsula* A female Malaccas specimen sent home by the Rev. L. C. Biggs had this 



* Month. Packet, vol ii. p. 1£H (1S81). t ' The Aeum Sportiug Newspaper/ vol. iv. p. 175 (1830). 



I Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mua. E. I.C. vol. i. t. 11, f. 5, 5a. 

 5 Capt. de la Cliaumette, Ent. Month, Mag, vol, ii. p. 37 (18fi5), 



