(469 ) 

 30. Papilio vertumnus Cram. (1T7',»). 



(J. Piipaio Eques Troja/ius vertumnus Cramer, Paj). Ej^ot. iii. p. 32. t. 211. fig. A. B (177'.l) 



(Surinam ; fig. C = P. anchises (J). 

 ? . Pajnlio clxins Gray, Cat. Lep. Ins. Brit. Miis. i. Pap. p. 48. n. 2.37. t. 8. fig. (1852) (Ega). 



As the tibiae are in a number of species of the present gronp simply spinnse 

 and nou-iucrassate, resembling the tibiae of the females, while in other species the 

 tibiae are incrassate and densely hairy, bearing only a limited number of spines, it 

 is of great interest to observe that in P. vertumnus this specific difference breaks 

 down. 



Though the tibiae of vertumnus are never much incrassate, they are densely 

 hairy in one geographical form, and almost normally spinose in the other forms. 



c?. Palpus red, eighth abdominal sternitc edged with red. Forewing with 

 large glaucous green patch from inner margin forward beyond M-, sometimes 

 extending a little across M', the streak at inner margin sometimes reduced, seldom 

 absent, the patch variable in width, touching cell at least at base of M^, rarely so 



much reduced as to be 1 or 2 mm. distant from cell. Red patch of hindwiiig 



close to cell, triangnlar, consisting of three or four spots, the last (rarely the last 

 but one) being the longest, this last spot standing behind M- ; the spots small on 

 underside, spot R' — M' being placed about midway between cell and distal margin. 



¥. Palpns and apex of eighth abdominal segment and of seventh sternite red. 

 Forewing with white or creamy patch. Red band of hindwing broad, consisting of 

 five to six spots, there being rarely a small seventh spot in front of R', the last four 

 spots more or less completely merged together, the scaling on veins M' and M^ 

 being red, at least jiroximally, within the red band ; the band paler beneath, the 

 veins traversing it black, the last two spots alone confluent, rarely sejmrated like 

 the other spots. 



Neuratiou : D'^ of hindwing transverse, short, being shorter than D^ 



Scent-organ : fold with broad streak of white wool ; scales at discal side of 

 wool grey, elongate, entire. 



Genitalia : S. Tenth tergite one-fourth longer than the sternite, its lateral 

 edge dilated basally into a small ridge. Harpe as in P. lacydes, apex a little 



more regularly rounded. ? . As in P. ei-laces, but autevaginal lateral ridge 



membranaceous, wrinkled, not raised to a distant lobe ; edge of postvaginal plate 

 tuberculiibrm in middle. 



Early stages not known. 



Hub. Eastern slopes of the Andes from Colombia to Bolivia, extending 

 eastwards to Para and the Guianas ; not yet found in Venezuela. 



a. P. vertumnus yuracares subsp. nov. 



(J. Green patch of forewing touching cell between M' and M-, its proximal 

 edge between M- and inner margin slightly obliciue, somewhat concave, tlie patch 

 narrower in basi-distal direction than across veins; a white s])ot M' — M^, rounded, 

 in one specimen reaching from JI' to M-, a minute dot behind it iu two of our three 



individuals; these white spots repeated on uudersurface. Hindiving with four 



red spots, the upper two separate, the second rounded off proximally and distally ; 

 five small pale red spots on underside. 



? not known. 



