lUIOPAUK'KliA MALA VAX A, 



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ill long circuits, pitching occasionally on grassy knolls, and generally returning by the same 

 route to the same spot after a flight/' * In the same district the Bet, J. II. Hocking 

 describes the flight of this butterfly as " very strong," f 



18. Papilio onpape. (Tab. XXVII., fig. 5.) 



Papain nnjittpe, Moore, Proc. ZooL hoc. 1B78, p. 8-10. 



Wind's above dark brownish, with the fallowing pale creamy och race ou 8 spots: — anterior wings with 

 four subapical spots divided by the nervules — of which the uppermost is much the largest — followed by a 

 Huhmarginal series of smaller spots divided by the nervtilea — duplex between lower median ncrvule and 

 submedian nervure — and a marginal seiies of small subquadrate spots; posterior wings with a doable 

 munargmal series of spots, the innermost faintest, lanceolate, and not extending above the lower subcostal 

 nervule, the outermost brighter and lunulnte, excepting the two subnpical spots which are rounded, the 

 innermost above anal angle being dark oehraueons ; fringe alternately pale ochraeeouji and a dark ochraceous 

 spot nt anal angle. Wings beneath as above, but the anterior wings having the spots somewhat paler 

 and the large subapical spot more or less broken ; posterior wings as above, but with a marginal series 

 of large ochraceous spots placed between the uorvui'-s. lb-ail and thorax almve blackish; head and 

 prouotum spotted with greyish j abdomen above brownish ; body beneath more or less dark brownish, 

 spotted and marked with greyish ; (legs in specimen here described mutilated). 



Exp. wings, 100 millim. 



Hab, — Teuasserim; Hatsiega, lloungdurau Source, Naththoung (Limborg — Moore). — Malay 

 Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (coll- Dist.). 



This is a local race or form of P. panopc. Linn., found in Continental India, and is not 

 at all a common insect in collections nroiwd from the Malay Peninsula. 



MACAREUSJ Group. 



o. J/tfmwwr-groap, Wallace, Trans. Liun. Hoc vol. xxv. pp. 61 (18G5). 

 Sect. XXXVI., Folder, Spec. Lep. Pap. pp. 20, 00 (180-i). 



The butterflies of this group "mimic" different species of the "protected" subfamily 

 Danaina, and are found from Continental India throughout the Malayan Archipelago. This 

 and the two following groups have been thus diagnosed by Mr. Wallace : — 



"Larvffi elongate, attenuate behind, and often bifid, with lateral and oblique pale stripes, green. 

 Imago with the abdominal margin in <T retlexed, wooly or hairy within; anal valves small, hairy; 

 antennas short, stout; body stout.*' 



* Proc. Zool. Soc. 1666, p. 486. \ Ibid. lWl. p. *m. 



The diihculty of capturing the strong and swift-flying PapUios is not inconsiderable, and Mr. CoUingwood in Labuan 

 found that *'the sacrifice of a single specimen will often secure others; for buUerm'ea ore grefjarinug, aud a dead specimen 

 pinned upon a conspicuous twig will often arrest an insect of the same species in its headlong flight, and bring it down within 

 easy reach of tho not, especially if it be nf the opponitu sox*' ('Rumbles of a Naturalist/ p. 182). Insects can also bo deceived 

 by painted representations of flowers and fruits. Our celebrated painter, Mr. MUIais, has related the following curious facta:— 

 U I was painting in spring n picture which I called * Apple BloasuniB.' 1 painted the tree* when they were in full flower, and, 

 not being able to nnisu the work in one spring. 1 continued the picture the following' spring, so that many or tho flowers were 

 quite dry. I Bhould tell you that I had my canvas out m the invlmrd. :md worked direct from Niittirc. 1 was perfectly annoyed 

 hy bees crawling over my canvas, and distutrtUj going to the centre of iny painted blossoms — those n year old and scentless — 

 as woll as tho wet ones, which might have had attractions in tho way of smell, from oil and turpentine. Tomy nriud they 

 wlntooh $1*4 imiiaiioti for the rtal floivtr. They were a great nuisance, and retarded my work, drau'gini.' tin ir leys, i- lugged 

 with wljitL' and pink point across tho canvas. Some, of the blossom ^ 1 pointed in the foreground wv.ru nearly thti real size, and 

 to thoso thoy chiefly went" (W. L. Lindsay's * Mind in the Lower Animals," vol. i. p. 517J. 



J J°. macctrttu*, Godt., is a species found in Continental India, and recurded also from Java and Borneo. 



