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beneath cell are very much abbreviated and lanceolate in shape ; in the posterior wings the streak which 

 nearly crosses cell in male, completely crosses it and is continued beneath to the lower median nervnle. 

 Wings beneath as shove, but paler. 



Exp. wings, $ , 88 raillim, ; ? , W millim. 



Hae,— Malay Peninsula; Selangor: Kwak Lumpor (Biggs— coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (coll. Obortb.).— 

 Sumatra (coll, Oherth.). 



The resemblance of this species— especially in the male — to a Danaid is one of those facts, 

 which support the true theory of " mimicry," anil the protection thus acquired by so closely 

 simulating a protected or distasteful Dwmid is self-evident.* 



AXTir HATES Group. 



p. AntipfnUea-grovpi Wallace, Trans. linn, Sec, vol. xxv. p. 68 (1865 u 

 Sect. XXI., Sub-sect. C. Feider, Spec. Lepid. Pap. pp. 14, 58 (1864). 



Patfojsa, Reak. Proo. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii, pp. 503-4 H864) ; Moore, Lop. Ceyl. vol. L p. 141 (1881). 



In this group the posterior wings possess the maximum of caudate prolongation, and 

 really merit the popular name of "swallow-tails." Their area of distribution comprises 

 Continental India, the adjacent islands, the Malay Peninsula, the Malayan Archipelago, 

 portions of Australia, and extends as far north as China. 



One species is at present only known in this fauna. 



21. Papilio antiphates, var. pompilius. (Tab. XXXI., fig. 5 $ .) 



Payilio Auti/thate.% Cramer, Pap. Ex. i. t. 7'2, A, B (1779); Boisd. Spec, Gen. i. p. 248, n. 72 (198C) ; Gray, 

 Cat. Lep. Papil. p. 81, n. 147 (1852); Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep, Mtia. E.I.C, vol. L p. llfi, n. 282 

 (1857) ; Voll. Tijd. Ent. iti. p. 77, n. 57 (1800 J ; Wall. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 68, n. «9 (18G5K 

 Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p, 757 ; ibid. 1877, p. 508 ; ibid. 1878, p. 841 ; Bruce, Proc, Zool. Soc. 

 1878, p. 357, n. 20 ; Suell. Tijd, Ent. xix. p. 155, n. 68 (1876) ; Lep. v. Midd. Sum. p. 25, n. 2 (1196) I) : 

 Bttti, Trans. Limi. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. ]>. 552. n. 1 (1877) ; Godm. k Stilv. Proc Zool. Soc. Ib78, 

 p. 641, n. 27; Oberth. Etudes d'Ent, Quatr. Livr. p. 68. u. 160 (1870). 



Pii/iilh Atcibiatttn, Fabr. Mimt. Ins. ii. p. 8 T a. 65 (1787). 



Papilio AjitifJiutfn, var. Ahibiade*, Butl. Gat. Fabr. Lep, p. 240 (1869), 



* It may be not altogether supererogatory to give a few faeti relative to the insect dopred:Ui. ■"■^ »f birds, and honce 

 the need of some form of protection on the pari of edible insects. This can be evidenced by observations made in this country 

 alone, ami we will take the lfev. F. 0. Morris as witness. He slates "that not only -ueh birds as sen kuIIs, but Unit nil the 

 owl a, even up to the eagle owl, feet] on insect* when they come in their way, mid not only the owls, but all the six British 

 species of true falcons, — .... , — as aleo most, if not all, of the hawks, and some, if not all, even of the crudes, the spotted 

 eagle for instance? Few persons are nmin- of tin innumerable number nf insects thus destroyed by birds. The following 

 observation^ ami several nf thetu art- much below i-ho mark, will show this: — 



"The blue titmouse has been watched, anil found to fee<l its yomifj from 8.30 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. 476 times, bringing one 

 large or two or throe small insects each time. 



"The thrush, from 1.15 a.m. to 0.15 p.m., 200 times. 



"Thi» blackbird, from 0.15 a.m. to 8.40 p.m.. 110 times. 



"Tin- miseUoc thrush, fnun 4/i<i :i.iu.. H |un., 00 times, each time bringing several targe worms or insects. 



"The sparrow, front twu or three to six or eight inneets at once, and as this goes on for all the day. and they frequently 

 have twu or three broods in the year, they must destroy an immense number. 



11 1 watched the other day a wagtail catching insects to feed its young, and it took eight or nine into its bill in a minute 

 or two. ami hod not left off when I turned nway."— * Letter* to ,l The Times*' about Birds, <fc.,* p. 40. 



Tiie quantity of insects in the tropics is something enormous, and requires *' cheeks." lu Mexico, Mr. E. B. Tylor has 

 related that in order lo snpph uu armadillo with food an old Indian " walked out into the held s with an earthen pot, nnd 

 returned Willi it full of insects in about half-andmur. We reckoned that there were over fifiv species in the pot" (' AiahuaeV 

 p. 310). 



October 15, 1885. -4 * 



