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Smith); Guatemala, Polochic and Motagua valleys, Pacific coast (F. D. G. & 0. S.), 

 Cubilguitz, Chacoj, El Beposo (CVkmpz'ow) ; Honduras {Zoettling 6 ) ; Nicaragua 5 , Chon- 

 tales (Belt); Costa Eica (Van Patten* 1 ) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Aree), Bugaba, David 

 (Champion), Lion Hill (M'Leannan). — South America generally from Colombia to the 

 Argentine Republic ; Antilles, Bahama Is., Cuba, San Domingo, Jamaica, St. Thomas. 



■ P. polydamas is one of the most widely ranging of the American species of the genus, 

 and is found over nearly the whole of South America, except the extreme south and 

 the more arid portions of the west coast. It occurs in the more northern of the West 

 Indies, and has been taken in Florida 9 ; it is generally distributed in Central America, 

 and is found in the more tropical portions of Mexico, but apparently avoids the high 

 land and the States of the northern frontier. Mr. Bates says that on the iimazons it 

 frequents gardens and semi-cultivated or neglected ground, and he inferred that its 

 wide distribution was probably due to the clearing of the forests by man 5 . 



On the whole the species is very constant in its markings, and may be distinguished 

 without difficulty from the allied forms of more restricted range found in South-eastern 

 Brazil and some of the islands of the West Indies. In Guatemala we observed it 

 exclusively in the low-lying lands on both sides of the Cordillera. Its vertical range 

 hardly exceeds 3000 feet. 



16. Papilio lycidas. (Tab. LXV. fig. 17, right harpe.) 

 Papilio lycidas, Cram. Pap. Ex. t. 113. f. A 1 ; Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. p. 317 2 ; Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



ser. 2, v. p. 228 3 ; Druce, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 245 4 ; Staud. Ex. Tagf. p. 12, t. 8 \ 

 Papilio erymanthus, Cram. Pap. Ex. t. 113. f. C 8 . 



<$ alis viridi-aeneo nigricantibus ; anticis cellula et costa, posticis margine externo et venis nigricantioribus ; 

 plica abdominali introrsum, macula subapicali, aliis discalibus evanescentibus et abdomine supra sulphureis : 

 subtus fuliginosis ; anticis maculis tribus duplicibus submarginalibus apud angulum analem ; posticis 

 lunulis sex submarginalibus cinnabarinis nigro cinctis, ciliis inter venas angustissime sulphureis : pro- 

 thorace et corporis lateribus ochraceo punctatis. 



$ mari similis, sed abdomine supra nigricante distinguenda ; posticis plaga magna inter venam submedianam 

 et ramum medianum primum sulphurea. 



Hah. Guatemala, Polochic valley, Pacific coast (F. D. G. & 0. S.) ; Nicaeagua, 

 Chontales (Belt) ; Costa Bica ( Van Patten) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Pibhe). — South 

 Ameeica from Colombia to Peru 4 , Amazons valley 3 and Guiana 1 6 . 



This species was first described by Cramer from Surinam specimens, the female as 

 P. lycidas *, the male as P. erymanthus 6 . It has now been traced throughout the 

 Amazons valley to Eastern Peru, and northwards through Colombia and Central 

 America to Guatemala, where we obtained specimens on both sides of the Cordillera 

 up to an elevation of about 2000 feet. Mr. Bates found it abundantly in June and 

 July, in company with P. belus, at Ega, where it frequented the most humid parts of 

 the forests of the Amazons 3 . Mr. Bartlett observed it on the banks of the Huallaga 



biol. cente.-ameb., Rhopal., Vol. II., August 1890. 2 d 



