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after killed by ants. Five passed successfully through all dangers and became 
beautiful specimens, one female and four males. All through their lives these larvae 
continued gregarious, dispersing occasionally to feed, but always returning to rest 
side by side on the upper surface of a leaf. The following dates may be interesting. 
Eggs laid, 2nd August; hatched, 7th August; skins cast (and eaten), 12th August; 
again, 17th ; and again, 20th to 22nd August. The most advanced cast its skin again 
on the 28th of August, became a pupa on the 2nd of September, and emerged on the 
15th of September. The others followed within two days. At first the larvae were 
of an oily-yellow colour, and bore many pairs of spiny points, but these disappeared 
■with age, and after the last moult there were only the short fleshy processes on the 
second and last segment which characterize the group, and one additional curved 
pair on the ninth segment. The colour after the last moult was a clear slaty-blue, 
changing eventually to a greenish tint, with light brown markings very much the 
same as those which characterize the rest of the Erithonins group. The pupa was 
more abruptly bent back from the middle of the thorax than that of Pap. Erithonius , 
and adorned on the thorax with a sword-shaped horn, fully three-eighths of an inch 
long, and always bent a little either to the right or left. The colour, of the pupa, was 
brown, or green and yellow, according to situation ” (J. Davidson and E. H. Aitken, 
Journ. Bombay B. H. Soc. 1890, 367). 
Distribution.— “ This is not a rare butterfly in Kanara, but more local than 
most species, owing perhaps to the larva feeding exclusively (so far as we know) on 
Acronychia laurifolia , a tree which is almost confined to the tops of wooded hills. 
We have met with the butterfly chiefly from August to October” (J. Davidson and 
E. B. Aitken, J. Bombay B. H. S. 1896, 581). The late Mr. S. B. Ward writes, 
“ I found this butterfly only about Calicut, and reared the larva ” (MS. Botes). The 
food-plants of the larva are Evodia Roxburg hiana and Act onychia laurifolia , both of 
the Order Butacem ” (J. B. D. Bell, J. As. Soc. Beng. 1900, 258). Mr. Gr. E. 
Hampson records “two specimens obtained in September on the Western Slopes of 
the Bilgiris, at 2500 feet elevation” (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1888, 364). Mr. H. S. 
Eerguson records “ six specimens taken in Travancore. Seen oftener in the low 
country than on the Hills, and of those taken, all but one were more or less 
damaged ” (J. Bombay B. H. S. 1891, 446). 
Of our illustrations on Plate 461, fig. 1 represents the larva and pupa copied 
from Mr. Ward’s original drawings; fig. la, b from a Karwar male, and fig. lc from 
a female reared at Calicut by Mr. Ward. 
Philippine Species. — Araminta Antonio (Papilio Antonio, Hewitson, Exot. 
Butt. v. Pap. pi. 14, fig. 46, 3 (1875). Haase, Untersuch. iib. Mim. p. 39 (1893). 
Kothschild, Bov. Zook ii. p. 284 (1895). Pap. (Araminta) Antonio, Semper, Phil. 
Tagfalt. p. 274, pi. 47, fig. 4, 6 (1892). ELabitat. Mindanao. 
