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sub-median nervure, then suddenly bowed outwards, rather short; palpi of the female 
much longer than those of the male. 
Type, Papilio amor , Fabrieius. 
RATHINDA AMOR. 
Plate 706, figs. 4, 4a, $ , 4b, $, 4c, d, larva and pupa. 
Papilio amor , Fabrieius, Syst. Ent. p. 518 (1775) ; id. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 113 (1781) ; id. Mant. Ins. ii. 
p. 65 (1787). Herbst, Pap. xi. p. 43, pi. 302, figs. 9, 10 (1804). 
Hesperia amor , Fabrieius, Ent. Syst. iii. (1), p. 260 (1793). 
Polyommatus amor, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 620 (1823). 
Zephyrus amor, Guerin-Menevile, Icon. Reg. An. Ins. p. 490, pi. 81, fig. 6 (1844). 
Myrina amor, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 184 (1869). 
Bathinda amor, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 99, pi. 42, figs. 1, la, pi. 34, fig. lb, larva and pupa of 
Spalgis epius, ex errore (1881). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 359. de Hiceville, 
Butt, of India, iii. p. 414, pi. 29, fig. 227, J (1890). Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. 
Hat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 389, pi. 5, figs. 7, 7a, larva and pupa. Aitken and Comber, id. vol. xv 
1903, p. 49. 
Sithon amor, Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 277, pi. 95, $ (1888). 
Papilio triopus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 320, figs. G, H (1780). 
Myrina triopus, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 49, pi. 12, figs. 7, larva, 7a, pupa 
(1857). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 776. 
Imago.— Male. Upperside brownish-black with a violet-tint. Forewing with a 
white spot (sometimes slightly ochreous) beyond the end of the cell, with two smaller 
spots in an outwardly oblique row from it. Hindwing with two black lunular spots 
between the tails and indications of a third black spot in the next upper interspace, all 
three capped with orange, with a fine blue thread on their outer sides ; tails black, tipped 
with white. Cilia blackish, with white tips. Underside white, sometimes tinged with 
yellow; the markings pale chocolate. Forewing with the apical third chocolate, its 
inner edge in an even curve from the middle of the costa to the hinder margin near the 
angle, containing a sub-marginal series of small black lunules inwardly edged with 
white ; the middle portion of the white space with some chocolate suffusion, a thin 
linear mark near the hinder angle, two short streaks from the base followed by three or 
four small spots. Hindwing with a lunulated, outwardly curved cliscal line, the inner 
wbng space covered with spots and small lunular marks, a sub-marginal orange-yellow 
band, lined on its inner side with dark chocolate, on its outer side by metallic blue- 
green small spots, some pale chocolate suffusion near the apex, a black spot between 
the two upper tails, ringed with pale dull blue, white spots on each side of it, some 
white on the outside of the yellow band near the costa ; both wings with a terminal, 
narrow, chocolate band ochreous tinted. Antennae black, ringed with white ; the club 
with an orange tip ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings. 
