CHAPTER I


 FAMILY PAPILIONIDUE
Genus:
I. PAPILIO CAPYS (Hub).
 This is one of the common Papilios of the
country. I have met with it everywhere in the
Colony. It is a very rapid flyer and fond of
settling on flowers in forest tracks. On many
occasions I have found the larvae on orange trees
in companies of a hundred or more closely packed
together side by side on the trunks of the trees.
When irritated the larva extrudes a pair of
orange-coloured processes, each process being
about three-quarters of an inch in length, from
receptacles situated immediately behind the head.
As soon as these processes are extruded a very
pungent odour is given off which resembles that
produced when a green orange rind is cut or bruised.
This is one of the methods provided for its defence
against enemies, for as soon as danger threatens
the processes are extruded, and immediately the
atmosphere is filled with a pungent and irritating
odour. When the danger appears to be over the