(476 ) 



the female of P. li/ciiiwncs eiyt/uits ; the band of the bindwiiig entering cell, being 

 jiroximally mucli paler than distaliy. 



Ila/j. Nortbei'u Veneznela, and Colombia east of the (Jordillera of Bogota. 



In the Tring Museum 23 JcJ, 5 9 ?, from : Cuca, Valeucia, Caracas, Puerto 

 Cabello, M^rida, and Cumana, in Venezuela ; Peperital to Bnenavista, Eastern 

 Colombia, January 189", 400— 13uO m., dry (Dr. Biirger). 



b. P. eritkalion eritkalion Boisd. (183G). 



?. PapiUo erithiilion Boisduval, I.e. ; Felder, Reise Novnro, Lep. p. 25. n. 15. t. G. fig. d (1SG5). 

 cJ. PapiUo 2>yrnrhles Doubleday, Ann. .Vaff. N. H. xiv. p. 4I() (1840) (Colombia) ; Gray, Cat. Lep. 



Ins. Brit. Mus. i. Pap. p. 46. n. 229. t. 9. fig. 2 (1852) (partini ; ^ only), 

 cj. Papilio jiliaciion Kollar, Denkschr. K. Ah. Wiss. Wien, Math. Nat. CI. i. p. 353. n. 7. t. 42. 



fig. 5. G (1850) (Cundinamarca). 

 ? . PapiUo ahjattes Felder, Wim. Ent. Hon. t. p. 73. n. 7 (18G1) ( $ only). 



cJ. Upperside. — Forewiug : olive-green patch extending from inner margin 

 to M\ seldom beyond, very often reduced and ill-defiued ; white spot rarely 

 present, standing between R^ and M' (not M'— M^ as in the Venezuela form), 



usually narrow, oblique, and separate from the green patch. Hiudwing : three 



red spots R- — M-, occasionally a vestige of a spot behind M-, sometimes a dot 

 S(J- — R', rarely another dot R' — R'-, and stiil more rarely a sixth dot before SC^ 

 (a specimen in the Vienna Museum). 



Underside : Forewing often with a greenish grey s2iot R' — M' in specimens 

 which have no white dot on upperside, preceded sometimes by a second dot; the 

 spot R' — M^ white in specimens with white dot on upperside ; sometimes a cloud 

 of whitish scales in front of cell, rarely condensed to a white elongate-triangular 



spot. Hindwing nsually with five spots, which are on the whole farther away 



from cell than in the previous subspecies, often seven spots, very rarely eight. 



? . Uppjerside. — Forewing : spot R' — M' smaller than R- — R', many specimens 



with small spots distaliy of apex of cell ; cell-spot large, close to cross-veins. 



Band of hindwing very variable, spot R' — M^ longer than its distance from distal 

 edge of wing. 



Hab. Colombia : Magdalena valley ; Cordillera of Bogota. 

 In the Tring Museum: 90 c?(?, 40 ? ? , from : Valdivia, July 1897 (Pratt); 

 La Palma, August, Guadalite, September, Cananche, July and August, Pizarra, 

 August 1903, (kindinamarca (Mathau); Muzo, January 1898 and December 1890; 

 Puniio, October — November It<9(3 (Dr. Biirger) ; La Vega, cast of Bogota, 19U0 m., 

 January 1897, dry (Dr. Biirger) ; Pacho ; Villaviceucio. 



c. P. eritkalion cauca Oberth. (18S0). 



cj ? . Papilio eritkalion cauca Oberthiir, Et. d'Ent. iv. p. 84. sub n. 276 (1880) (Cauca). 

 J j . Papilio caiiea, Staudinger, Exof. Tag.f. p. 13. t. 9. i (1884) (Cauca). 



While in P. bjcimenea and P. iphidamas the males from the Canca valley 

 have the green patch of the forewing as large as it is in the specimens from the 

 Magdalena valley, the Cauca males of P. eritkalion have the green patch absent 

 (jr vestigial. Tliis fact proves conclusively that P. eritkalion is specifically distinct 

 froni I lie other two insects. 



(J. Uppcrgide. — Forewing : green patch absent or vestigial ; no white spot. • 



Hindwing with three spots, mostly separated from one another, rarely preceded by 

 one or two minute dots. 



Undermle. — I'orewiug not seldom with glaucous grey spot R' — M' and an 



