470 



RJIOPALOCERA MALAYAN A, 



32. Papiiio anticrates, var. (Tab, XLIL, fig, 7.) 



Papitio Anticrate, Doubleday, Ann. Nat. Hist, xvih. p, 371 (1846) ; Gray, Cat, Lep. Papil. p. 29, n. 140, t. 8, 

 f. 8 (1852) ; Horsf, & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. vol. i. p. 115, n, 231 (1857), 



Wings above pale greenish-white; anterior wings with the eosta ami a broad outer margin black, the 

 last divided by a narrow greeniHh-white line whiuh is broken by the nervules, two black fasciffl crossing 

 wing near base, followed by three shorter fasciae of which the innermost alone extends slightly beneatb the 

 raediun nervure; posterior wings with two longitudinal black basal fasene (in Siklcim and typical spt t iuu m 

 the outer of these fascire is broken and subobsolete), a broad hbu-k^h < ur< r marginal fascia- -boi-oniing 

 plumbageoua at anal angle — divided by a series of greenish-white lunules, above the anal angle are two 

 pale oehraeeouB margined spots, tail-like appendages black, their margins and apex more or less greyish- 

 white. Anterior wings beneath aa above but much paler, posterior wings beneath much paler than above, 

 the outer basal longitudinal fascia outwardly margined with a series of black and red spots which are 

 deflect uii'l niniinued inwardly to a little above anal angle, outer margin paler than above, but with its 

 outer portion exhibiting a series of black sublunulate spots, a black spot — both above and below— on 

 abdominal margin a little above anal angle. Body above blackish, pronotum with a greyish fascia on each 

 side, the abdomen annulated with the Bame colour; body beneath greyish-oehraeeous ; legs greyish, more 

 or less suffused with blackish. 



Exp, wings, 60 to 70 millim. 



Jim. — Continental India; Silhet (Gray! ; Sikkim (de Nic. — coll. Cist.) ; Darjeeling (Horsf. & Moore i. — 

 Malay Peninsula; Perak (Egerton — colL Diet.). 



Fam. HESPEEHDiE* (autea, p. 3Gti).— Group ERIONOTABIA (antm, p. 392). 



Genus PLASTINGIA (wtea, p, 396). 

 2, Plastingia hieroglyphica. (Tab. XLIV., % 25.) 



PtattbujUi Hurogtyphica, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1870, p. 511, n. 2 ; Lep, Ex. p. 171, t. 59, f, 12 (1871). 



"Wings above black; front wings with a spot at the base, two- at the middle of the wing, and four 

 across the disc, the uppermost oblique and divided into four parts by the subcostal and discoidal branches, 

 the third biM, slanting towards the lower end of the first, the second small, between the first and third, 

 the fourth near the anal angle, divided by the submedian nervure; hind wings with a large basal spot, 

 a streak and two small spots on the inner margin, two spots at the apex, a large triangular spot on the 

 disc, and another at the anal angle, all deep orange; body brown, spotted with orange; abdomen with 

 orange rings, t Wings below, almost as above, but paler ; body greyish, with mesial yellow stripe." 



Exp. wings, '* 1 inch, G lines*" 



Has. — Malay Peninsula; Perak (coll. Dist.). — Borneo; Sarawak {Lowe — -coil, Godm. & Salv,). 



* Mr. Dohorty states that 11 a kind of hermaphroditism seenis to occur in the Hetptriidtt. From the body of (apparent) 

 mules erf Sua-ttu* cltola and of Cohtdtnia dan, both having perfect prehcuflors of the form characteristic of their teftjpTOtiw 

 species, I obtained one or two well -developed eggs exactly similar to thoRe taken from the females of the same spoeies. Also 

 from a male of Sitastuz taotm (the egg of that species being, except for this, unknown to mo) I obtiiiiu-tl ti Hinglo immature 

 blood-red egg, I have not obtained this m any of ;he higher groups of butterflies" tJuum. AsL&t, Sue. Beng. vol. lv. p. 113 

 <1880). 



j The hody of the specimen figured was unfortunately mutilated, and therefore had to be sketched under the artist' s 

 imagination, without showing these black markings. 



