( 486 ) 



intergradations occnrring ; it varies also in colour, being sometimes bluish, sometimes 



greenish ; a white spot M' — M- in some specimens. Hindwing strongly dentate, 



mostly with three spots, which are nsnally well separated from one another and 

 from cell, there being often a streak behind M- and occasionally a dot before R- ; 

 the spots sometimes yellowish. 



On ?/;ir/«'.s/V/e of hindwing, a row of five to seven spots, nsnally j)laced rather 

 nearer the distal margin than the cell. 



?. U//persi(/e.— Forev/iug: no spot in cell or only a small streak, two spots 

 R' — M- on disc, the upper touching cell, or only one spot R^ — IP, touching cell or 

 separate from it, or this spot vestigial, or the wing without any spots, except the 



fringe-dots. Hindwing with a row of six or seven evenly red spots, all separate 



from each other and from cell, last two usually merged togetiier. 



JIab. Dutch and French Guiana. 



In the Tring Museum 3 (J(J, 2 ? ¥, from Surinam. 



In coll. Oberthiir a long series of both sexes from Maroni and Cayenne. 



/. P. anchises thelios Gray (1852). 



?. P<ipn;o thelios Gray, Cat. Lpp. Ins. Brit. 3Tuk. i. Pap. p. 52. n. 250. t. 10*. fig. 7 (18.52) (Par.i); 



Wall., Trans. Euf. Soc. Loml. (2). ii. p. 256 (1854)( Parii; forest) ; Gray, List Lep. Ins. Brit. 



Mas. i. Pap. p. 6.5. n. 265(1856). 

 (J ? . PapiVw hierochs Gray, Cat. Lep. Ins. Brit. Miis. i. Pap. p. 55. d. 258. t. 10. fig. 2. (J, t. 9. fig. 9. 



? (1852) (Pard) ; Wall., Traiw. Enl. Soc. Loml. (2). ii. p. 255 (1854) (Amazons ; forest) ; Gray, 



List Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. i. Pap. p. 67. n. 273 (1856) (Para) ; Bates, Trans. Enl. Son Land. (2). 



V. p. 341, 356 (1861) (synonymy ; " cyphotes " excl. ; Para) ; id., Journ. Enlom. I. p. 225. 



n. 13. (1862) ; Felder, Verli. Zool. But. Ges. Wien xiv. p. 203. n. 48 (1864) (Parit) ; Oberth., 



Et. (TEnt. iv. p. 88. n. 277 (1880) (Pard) ; Wood, Ins. Abroad p. 551. fig. 301 (1883). 

 ?. PapiUo aglaope Gray, Cat. Lep. Ins. Brit. .Vits. i. Pap. p. 56. n. 260. t. 10. fig. 6 (1852) ( ? only, 



(J alia spec. ; Pari); id., List Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. i. Pap. p. 67. d. 275 (1856) ( ? ; ParA). 

 Papilio cyphotes, Kirby (nnn Gray, 1852, err. det.). Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 527. n. 62 a (1871) {partim) ; 



Maass. & Weym., in Stiibel, Reisen S. Amer., Lep. p. 89. n. 42 (1890) (Baiilo, Lower Amazons). 



c?. Upperside. — Forewing with triangular green patch and one or two white 



spots, seldom a minute third spot being present. Hindwing nearly as strongly 



dentate as in P. a. anchises, with three or four separate red spots and often a 

 narrow line behind M-, s])ot M' — M- the longest. 



On underside of hindwing a row of six se])arate ])ale red spots, of which the 

 central ones stand nearer the cell than outer margin. 



?. Upperside. — Forewing with or without white cell-streak; two larger 

 distal spots R^— M-, often i)receded by a small s])ot, spot M' — M= the largest, 



oblong. Hindwing : a row of seven or eight separate red sj)ots, the last two 



merged together. 



On underside the spots of the hindwing somewhat paler than above. 



Hah. Lower Amazons : Para to Santarem. 



In the Tring Museum 2 iS,2, ? ? , from Panl. 



(J. P. anchises ctias subsp. nov. (PI. VII. tig. 40. 47). 



<S . Like ]'. a. orbigmjanus, but spot SC^ — R' of hindwing absent, being rarely 

 represented by a minute dot, the others on the whole somewhat shorter and 

 narrower. Palpns sometimes almost entirely black. 



? . Spots of forewing pure white ; cell-spot minute ; a small spot before R' an4 



