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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
Genus DALCHINA. 
Dalchina, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 143 (1881). Kirby, Allen’s Nat. Hist. Butt. ii. p. 277 (1896). 
Chlorisses* Swainson, Zool. Illustr. ii. pi. 89 (1832-3). 
Papilio (sect. 27, subsect, a, 5,/), Felder, Yerh. Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, pp. 304, 306, 349, 351. 
Papilio (group 36, part), Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 429 (1895). 
Imago. —Male. Forewing elongatedly triangular, attenuated and pointed at tlie 
apex; costa slightly arched, exterior margin very long, oblique and nearly even, 
posterior margin short; cell very long, rather narrow ; first and second subcostal 
branches at nearly equal distances apart, first branch short and anastomosed to the 
costal, second also touching the costal close to its apex; discocellulars inwardly 
oblique. Hindvnng triangular, produced and attenuated hind ward ; costa short and 
oblique, exterior margin oblique, sinuous, and produced into a short blunt pointed 
tail at end of upper median veinlet, abdominal margin long and folded, with a hairy 
patch beneath ; cell very long, narrow; second subcostal branch very concave at the 
base. Body robust, woolly ; antennal club very short and thick. Sexes alike. 
Larva. —Smooth; thickened from the second to fifth segment, and thence 
decreasing to the end ; with two short subdorsal fleshy spines on the fourth 
segment, two shorter spines on the second and third, and two on the anal segment. 
Pupa.— Conical; truncated in front; thorax produced into a lengthened 
obtusely-pointed frontal process. 
Type.—D. Sarpedon. 
DALCHINA SARPEDON (Plate 471, fig. 1, larva and pupa; la, b, g, 1c, $ ). 
Papilio Sarpedon , Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 461 (1758) ; id. ed. xii. p. 747 (1767); id. Mus. Lud. 
Ulr. p. 196 (1764); Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 447 (1795). Esper, Ausl. Sclimett. p. 38, pi. 8, 
fig. 2 (1785). Zinken, Nov. Act. Ac. Nat. Our. xv. p. 156 (1831). Lucas, Lep. Exot. p. 9, 
pi. 5, fig. 1 (1835). Thon, Nat. Schmett. p. 19, pi. 6, fig. 22 (1837). De Haan, Yerh. Nat. 
Gesch. Ned. pp. 7, 34, pi. 7, fig. 15 (1840). Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 14 
(1846). Hutton, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1847, p. 51. Kollar, Hiigel’s Kaschmir, iv. pt. 2, p. 405 
(1844). Lucas, Chenu’s Encycl. Hist. Nat. Pap. pi. 20, fig. 1 (1853). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. 
E. I. C. i. p. 118, pi. 3, fig. 8, larva (1857). Lang, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, p. 101. Felder, Yerh. 
Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, pp. 304, 350. Wallace, Tr. Linn. Soc. xxv. p. 65 (1865). Moore, 
P. Z. S. 1865, pp. 487, 757; id. 1878, p. 841; id. 1882, p. 257. L’Orza, Lep. Japon. p. 10 
(1869). Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 242 (1869). Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 357. Piepers, 
Tijd. v. Ent. 1876, p. 155; id. 1888, p. 346, pi. 7, fig. 8, 9, larva. Butler, P. Z. S. 1877, 
p. 814; ib. Tr. Linn, Soc. Zool. 1877, p. 552. Oberthiir, Etud. Ent. iv. p. 59 (1879). 
de Nieeville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 59. Elwes, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 873; ib. Tr. Ent. 
Soc. 1888, p. 434. Aurivillius, Kong. Sv. Yet. Ak. Hancll. 1882, p. 20. Staudinger, Exot. 
# Pieoccupied as Chlori-ssa, by Stephens, in 1829. 
