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LEPID OPT EE A INDICA. 
clearing in heavy forest, with a stream of water to keep the ground cool and moist, 
for it is a thirsty creature” {id. l.c. 1896, 578). Mr. G. F. Hampson obtained it on 
the “ Nilgiris, at 2,000 to 7,000 feet elevation, and two specimens of the form 
Thermoclusa , in February, at 8,500 feet ” (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1888, 864). Col. C. 
Swinhoe took his specimens of Thermodusa on <c Matheran Hill, Bombay, in 
November and December” (P. Z. S. 1885, 146). We possess specimens from 
Matheran taken by Dr. A. Leith. Mr. H. S. Ferguson records it as “ common in 
the low country of Travancore, and up to 4,000 feet in the Hills on the South; 
common also on the high range” (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891, 446). 
Of our illustrations on Plate 472, fig. 1, larva and pupa, is copied from Sir W. 
Gregory’s Ceylon drawings; figs, la and c from a Ceylon male and female, and 
fig. lb from a Nilgiri male. 
DALCHINA CLOANTHTJS (Plate 473, fig. 1, larva andgpq; la, b, <£, lc, $). 
Papilio Gloanthus , Westwood, Arcana Entom. i. p. 42, pi. 11, fig. 2 (1841). Kollar, Htigel’s 
Kasehmir, iv. pt. 2, p. 405, pi. 2, fig. 1, 2 (1844). Hutton, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1847, p. 51. 
Gray, Catal. Lep. B. M. i. p. 28 (1852). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 112 
(1857) ; id. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 757 ; id. 1882, p. 257. Eelder, Verh. Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, 
pp. 304, 349. Lang. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, p. 101. Oberthiir, Etud. Ent. iv. p. 60 (1879). 
Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 9, pi. 6 (1884). Butler, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 376; id. Ann. Hat. 
Hist. 1888, p. 206. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 439. Rothschild, Hov. Zool. ii. p. 445 (1895). 
Robson, Journ. Bombay H. H. Soc. 1895, p. 497, larva. 
Balchina Gloanthus , Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 257. Swinhoe, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 314. 
Papilio (Dalchina) Cloanthus , Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 186. de Niceville, Sikkim 
Gazetteer, 1894, p. 174. Mackinnon, Journ. Bombay H. H. Soc. 1898, p. 595, pi. W, fig. 27, 
a, b, c, d, larva and pupa. 
Papilio Gloanthus , var. Cloanthulus, Fruhstorfer, Deuts. Ent. Zeit. 1902, p. 140. 
Imago. —Male and female. Upperside purplish-black. Foreiuing with a pale 
olive-green very broad medial transverse band, the upper portion macular to the 
third median veinlet and composed of five large spots, the lower portion being 
conjoined and blue-tinted; within the cell is a large rounded spot joined to the 
outer one in the interspace of the fourth and third median, and also a large 
elongated triangular lower spot joined to the outer portions in the interspaces of the 
second and third median. Hindiving with a pale olive-green very broad posteriorly- 
decreasing medial band, and a submarginal row of four large spots, the lower three 
being conical and the upper one narrow ; at the apical and posterior angle is also a 
slightly-apparent slender greyish lunule, and at the anal angle a very obscure reddish 
spot. Underside dark purplish-brown. Foreiving with pale green markings as 
above, and the outer border traversed by a submarginal pale obscure greyish line. 
Ilindwing with a broad pale green band and submarginal spots, as above, the inner 
