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dark border. Female paler. Below brown with gloss, broad bands on
forewing, curved in hind. Exp. 28-32 mm. R. schistacea. Dark slaty blue,
brilliant lower down. Female darker more purple than varuna. Below
brown, a band in forewing. Exp. 30-33 mm. R. melampus. Red. Forewing
border black. Female paler. Below slaty. Exp. 33-38 mm. B. phocides.
Male black, hindwing end and tail yellowish, margin brilliant blue. Below
brownish. Female brown. White tail and corner. Hindwing black, spot in
the middle. Below white. Exp. 38-42 mm. Found in evergreen forests.
Fam. Papilionidae (Swallow tails) Large, generally black or dark brown
with designs. Wings usually long and narrow. Most have tails to
hindwing. Forelegs fully developed. Larva conspicuously coloured,
spindle shaped large flexible head, 2 tube like attachments behind. Pupa
variable. About 600 species known, about 100 in India, 11 in Maharastra.
T. helena. Forewing black, hind golden, black veins in males, rows of
spots in females. Largest in Indian butterflies. Exp. 140-190 mm. W.
Ghats, south of Bombay. Strays out. P. hector. Black, abdomen red.
Forewing with irregular white marks, hind with rows of crimson spots.
Tailed. Exp. 90-110 mm. P. aristolochiae. Black, hindwing with elongate
white spots, dirty red crescents on margin. Exp. 80- 110 mm. Tailed.
C. clytia. Dark brown, cream markings above, margins of wings with
elongated and round yellowish spots, yellow spot in the corner. No tail.
Exp. 90-100 mm. P. polymnestor. Black, pale blue band to forewing,
hind-wing black at base, bluish above, black spots. Tailless. Exp. 120-150
mm. P. helenus Var. daksha. Black, tailed, Hindwing with white patch,
usually a series of crescents on margins. Under side marginal red spot.
Exp. 110-130 mm. Not common. P. polytes. Male black, tailed, forewing
bordered white spots, a row inside the hindwing. Usually red marginal
spots. Female 3 forms. (а) cyrus. Similar to male, red marginal spots
strongly marked. (b) romulus. Similar to P. hector but body not red. (c)
stichius. Similar to P. aristolochiae, but hindwing with an additional row
of red spots, usually. No red markings on body. Exp. 90-100 mm.
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