( 460 ) 



being covered with long, half-erect, rounded-trnncate or feebly sinuate, purplish 

 black scales, there being also a brush of long hairs ; the greyish white scales at 

 the discal side of the patch of wool nearly all entire. 



Genitalia: c?. Tenth tergite a little longer than the long acuminate lobes 

 of the sternite ; edge of ninth tergite minutely serrate. Harpe long, gradually 

 narrowed distally, longitudinally impressed ; apex rounded, either entire or 

 denticulate, the most ventral tooth being usually somewhat enlarged ; ventral 

 edge with a solitary small conical tooth proximally ; a compressed, tuberculiform 

 ridge on clasper close to ajiex of harpe. Penis-sheath oblicpiely truncate, the 



proximal (or ventral) edge produced into an abrupt short-jiointed lobe. ? . 



Vaginal orifice surrounded by a ridge which is widened behind into a broad lobe ; 

 this lobe rounded, concave on distal side, somewhat like an oyster-shell in outline, 

 bent forward, lying over the vaginal orifice ; the edge of this lobe a little iucrassate 

 centrally ; proximally of the vaginal ridge there is on each side a large, irregularly 

 triangular lobe which is finely hairy. 



Early stages not known. 



Ilab. Mexico to Bolivia and Goyaz. 



a. P. sesostris zestos Gray (1852). 



/"(jy^^V/o .scso»7;v.<, Doubleday, Westw. & Hew., Gen. Diurti. Lrp. i. p. 19. n. 213 (1S17) (/«(rt!Hi) ; 

 Reak., Pmi:. Ent. Soc, Philatl. ii. p. 13'.). n. 9 (1863) (synon. jmrliiii ; Honduras) ; Weidem., 

 ibid. p. 148 (1863) (Central America ; parl'im) ; Dist., Pror. Enl. Sue. J.nnd. p. xiv. (1876) 

 (Costa Rica) ; Hopff., Slelt. Eut. Zeil. xl. p. 50. n. 9(1879) {partim ■ Honduras). 



Papilio sesios Gray, Cat. Lej). Ins. Brit. Mus. i. Pup. p. 47. n. 23,5. t. x*. fig. 5. ? (18.52) (Honduras) ; 

 id., List Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. i. Pap. p. 62. n. 248 (1856) (Honduras) ; Bates, Trans. Ent. 

 Soe. Loud. (2). v. p. 340 (1861) (Honduras) ; Felder, Vrrk Zool. Bot. Grs. Wicn xiv. p. 292. 

 n. 39 (1864) (Mexico; Honduras); Stand., Exnt. Tngf. p. 13 (1884) {partim; Central 

 America); Godm. & Salv., Binl. Centr. Amcr., Rhop. ii. 190. n. 1 (1890) (Guatemala; Brit. 

 Honduras ; Nicaragua ; Honduras). 



Pajiilio sesoslris, local var. zestos, Bates, Trans. Ent. Sue. Lnnd. (2). v. p. 355 (1861) (2""'l''>^t 

 Honduras). 



Papilio sesostris var, a. P. zestos, Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 525. sub n. 60 (1871) (Honduras). 



S. Hindwing always with red spot on npperside ; on underside the band of 

 spots K'— (SM') almost at right angles to the veins, the last of these three spots 

 ellijjtiual, not being produced distad, spot on abdominal fold rather large. 



? . Patch R' — M^ of forewing contiguous with cell, a small spot in cell. 

 Band of hindwing bright red on xippcrside, not shaded with buff ; on underside 

 spots R- — M- well separate from cell. 



Ilab. youth Mexico to Gosta Rica. 



IntheTriug Museum 5 SS, 4 ¥ ¥ , from : Coatzalcualcos, S. Mexico, July rjU4 

 (A. Hall) ; Volcan de Miravalles, Costa Rica (Underwood) ; Juan Vinas, 2500 ft., 

 and Carillo, 30110 ft., Costa Rica, October 1904 (A. Hall). 



b. F. sesostris tarqtdnius Boisd. (lS3G). 



Papilio tarquinius Boisduval, Spec. Gin. Lip. i. p. 296. n. 127 (1836) (¥, Colombia) ; Gray, Col. 



Lep. Int. Brit. Mus. i. Pap. p. 47. u. 234 (1852) (Colombia) ; id., List Lep. Ins. Brit. .Mus. i. 



Pap. p. 62. n. 247 (1856) (Colombia) ; Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. (2). v. p. 358 (1861); 



Felder, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wieu xiv. p. 292. n. 40 (1864) (Bogota) ; Oberth., Et. d'Eul. iv. 



p. 88. n. 280 (1880) (Colombia ; Panama ; partim, ^ excepted) ; Godm. & Salv., Biol. Centr. 



Amer., B/iop. ii. p. 191. n. 2 (1890) (Panama ; Bugaba, Chiriqui, Lion Hill). 

 Papilio sesostris local var. zestos. Bates, Trans. Ent. Snc. Loud. (2). V. p. 355 (1861) (jntrtim ; 



N. Granada). 

 Papilio sesostris var. b. P tar uiuiiis, Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 525. sub n. 60 (1871) (N. Granada). 



