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pair of short pointed spines, and also a dorsal pair of short blunt nodular spines 
—each encircled at the base by a black ring—on the fourth segment. Colour 
generally black, or smoky, until the last moult, and then dull green, inclining to 
rusty-brown on the sides; some remain quite black to the end.” 
Pupa.— “ Broad anteriorly; thorax with a dorsal forward-projecting frontal 
process. Colour normally green, but varies with that of the object to which it is 
attached ” (Davidson and Aitken, l.c.). 
Habitat. —Ceylon ; South India. 
Distribution, Habits, etc. —“ Very abundant in Ceylon, in July, August, and 
at the end of the year in the north and eastern portions in the low country. On 
November 16th, 1898, on the first day of the annual flight, Dr. N. Manders noted 
that it was migrating in large numbers at Colombo ; nearly all the numerous 
specimens he captured were in more or less tattered condition though freshly 
emerged, showing that they had flown a considerable distance; they probably came 
from the dry district of Hambantota on the south-eastern side of the island” (L. de 
Niceville, J. As. Soc. Beng. 1899, 224). “ The larva feeds on Unona Lawii and on 
Saccopetalum tomentosum , Order Anonacese ” (id. l.c. 1900, 257). Mr. E. M. Mack- 
wood obtained it in the i( low country, and principally in the northern province. 
Capt. Wade found it common in Kandy, and Galle. Capt. Hutchison took it in the 
eastern province, in forest ground, in August. Also on the Trincomali road. It 
sits in crowds on wet places ; have covered forty or fifty at once with my net. 
Very rare elsewhere” (Lep. Ceylon, i. pp. 141, 145). In South India “this species 
may be found in the Kanara district of Bombay, w T herever Pap. Teredon occurs in 
this district, though it does not occur further north. It is quite a thirsty creature, 
and usually contributes to the crowd that collects about moist ground in open 
places in the forest, but it is scarcely so numerous as Teredon , We have met with 
three specimens of this butterfly in which the green of the upperside was replaced 
by a pale straw yellow. We found the larva of this butterfly at Karwar, in June 
and July, feeding on two trees of the Order Anonacem, along with the larva of Pap. 
Nomius and Agamemnon. Some remained in the pupa state for nearly two months. 
At first sight the larva is very like that of P. Agamemnon , but the second pair of 
spines is entirely wanting, and the third pair is reduced to mere knobs, encircled by 
a black ring; the colour is generally black, or smoky, until the last moult, and then 
dull green, inclining to rusty-brown on the sides; but some of our specimens 
remained quite black to the end. The pupa has the frontal process straight, but 
directed forward ; its colour is normally green, but varies with that of the object 
to which it is attached; one, attached to white cloth, was almost pure white” 
(J. Davidson and E. H. Aitken, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1890, 364, id. 1896, 578). 
The late Mr. S. N. Ward obtained it in “ Malabar and Kanara, above and below the 
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