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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
neai base to the tip, and densely clothed with rather long lax spiny scales ; antennal 
club gradually thickened. 
Type. —M. Polydorus, Linn. 
MENELAIDES JOPHON (Plate 436, fig. 1 larva , la, <£, lb, 5 )• 
Papilio Jophon, Gray, Catal. Lep. Brit. Mus. i. p. 10, pi. 4, fig. 4 ? (1852) ; id. List.Lep. B. M. p. 11 
(1856). Felder, \ erh. Z. B. Ges. Wien. p. 326 (1864). Haase, Untersucli. nb. Mim. p. 24 
(1893). Botbschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 234 (1895). 
Menelaides Jophon , Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 152, pi. 58, fig. 1 ? (1881) ; ih. ii. p. 533, pi. 210, 
fig. 6, larva. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside rich violescent brownish-black. Forewing with 
a sullied greyish-white short forked streak between the outer veins, those 
above the third median veinlet slender, those below very broad, less forked, and 
prominent; within the cell are four short similar coloured narrow streaks, the upper 
one obsolescent, which are superposed above the interspace of the lower medians. 
Eindwing with a large sullied-white central rounded patch extending across outer- 
half of the cell and the basal interspaces from the upper subcostal to the submedian 
vein; beyond is a submarginal series of five ill-defined narrow black-speckled dusky 
crimson lunules. Underside. Forewing paler violescent-brown, the streaks whiter 
and more prominent. Eindwing with the central white patch more prominent and 
with an upper small white spot present in the costal interspace; followed by 
a submarginal series of six crimson lunules and a crimson lunule at anal angle. 
Thorax and abdomen above and beneath to near the tip, black; collar behind 
the eyes edged with white; frontal tuft brown ; palpi dull pale crimson; sides 
of thorax beneath, tip and sides of abdomen above and beneath crimson, the latter 
with black lateral spots and segmental bands ; antennse and legs black. 
Female. TJpperside. Forewing broader; vein and cell streaks as in the male, 
more prominent and whiter. Eindwing as in the male, with the central patch 
whiter; the elongated streak in the submedian interspace slightly tipt with pale 
crimson scales. Underside as in the male. 
Expanse, 8 4J, ? 4§ to 5 inches. 
Larva. —“ Dark purple-black, with crimson coloured pointed tubercles, two on 
2nd segment, eight on each of 3rd and 6th, six on each of 8th to 10th, and four on 
13th; seventh segment with a pale cream-coloured transverse band (interrupted on 
the dorsal line) including four tubercles of the same colour, below which on each side 
is a single crimson tubercle; on second segment is a band composed of four pale 
tubercular-spots, from the centre of which can be protruded a pair of short blunt 
yellow tentacles. 55 
