( 522 ) 



to M\ reacliiog at least beyond M- ; red submarginal spots of the same irregular 

 shape as in the coutiueutal form, but larger. 



Ilab. Bahamas : Nassau aud New Providence. 



Ill the British Museum (uame-type) and in coll. F. D. Godmau. 



/(. r. poh/damas polycrates Hopff. (1806). 



Papilio Equea Trojamis jjohjdamas var., Esper, Aual. Schmetl. p. ,33. n. 12. t. 7. lig. 1 (1784). 



FapHio pill ij(hi mas. M^aetrios, Bull. Mvsruii ii. p. 293. n. 1 (1832) (Haiti ; common); Dewitz,S/?W. Eiil. 

 Zeit. xxxviii. p. 284. n. 3 (1877) (Porto Eico, common) ; Ilahnel, Ins iii. p. 134 (1890) (Porto 

 Rico) ; Moschl., Ahh. Seid-enh. Nat. Ges. xvi. p. 91. n. 3 (1891) (Porto Rico, common) ; Gundl., 

 A71, Hist. Xut. iladrUl xx. p. 114. 11. 3 (1891) (Porto Rico ; syDOi\. parti in). 



Papiliij poli/ilainas var.. Gray, List Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. i. Pap. p. 77. sub n. 316 (1856) (/Mrtaii ; S. 

 Domingo) ; Feld., Verh. Zoo!. But, Gcs. Wieu xiv. p. 297. n. 119 (1804) (^partiiii ; S. Domingo). 



Papilio polycrates Hopffer, Stetl. Eiit. Zrit. xxvii. p. 24. n. 4 (18i56) (" Par.-i '' error loci). 



Papilio pohjdamas var. P. poh/crates, Kirby, Git. Diiirn. Lep. p. 521. sub n. 25 (1871) (" Antilles"). 



Papilio hi/pmlainas Guenoe, .Mem. Sor. Phijs. Hist. Nat. xxii. p. 371. n. 3 (1872) (Haiti) ; Kirby, Pet. 

 Noiiv. Enl. p. 239 (1872) ( = ^;«;^cr(i(es Hopff.) ; id., I.e. p. 809. n. 25 (1877) {= pvli/crates). 



c? ? . Upper- and underside of both wings deeper in tint than iu P. pohjd. 

 polydamas. Band of forewing, npperside, a little more proximal, and that of 

 hiudwing less curved, than in P. pohjd. poli/dam.as, the spot M' — M- of this band 

 being more distad than in pohjdamas ; the anal sjjot standing proximall}' of the 

 anal marginal sinus is always small, often vestigial. iSize of spots of both wings 

 somewhat variable, the spots of hindwing being in some specimens only half as 

 broad as in others. Ked submarginal spots of hindwing below usually larger than 

 in P. pohjd. pob/damus, the silvery white spots attached to spots S(J- — R' large ; 

 black discal area mostly touching cell at R', much deeper black than iu P. polj/d. 

 polydamas \ spots of forewing paler than in P. polyd. polydamas, creamy white. 



Genitalia : Harpe with one curved process only, the upper process being 

 absent; the process bears one or two teeth on the hinderside. 



Hab. Haiti. Porto Rico (this form ?). 



We have not seen specimens from Porto Rico. 



In the Tring Museum 8 Jc?, 1 ?. 



A series from Port au Prince in coll. (Jharles Oberthiir. 



/. /'. polydamas jamaicensis subsji. nov. (PI. VII. hg. 40). 



Sloaiie, Voy. Junmica ii. p. 216. t. 239. fig. 19. 20 (1725). 

 Papilio polydamas var., Doubleday, List Lep. Ins. Brit. .Mus. i. p. 14 (1845) (Jamaica) ; id., Westw. 



& Hew., Oeii. Diurn. Lep. i. p. 20. n. 241 (184G) (jiartim ; Jamaica) ; Gray, Cat. Lep. Ins. Brit. 



.Mus. i. Pap. p. 67. sub n. 299 (1852) ; id.. List Lep. Iiis. Brit. Mus. i. Pap. p. 77. sub n. 310 



(1856) ; Butl., Cat. Diurn. Lep. deser. Fiihr. p. 237. n. 14 (1869) (Jamaica) ; id., Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond. p. 481. n. 33 (1878) (Jamaica). 

 Papilio polydamas var. polyrrales, Cockerell (««« Hopffer, 1806, err. det.), Jamaica Instil, i. p. 27 



(1891) (larva) ; Fox & Johns., Ent. News iv. p. 3 (1893) (Jamaica). 

 Papilio polycrates, Robinson, ibid, xiv. p. 18 (19U3) (Jamaica). 



c? ?. Close to P. polyd. polycrates from Haiti, differing in the rufous brick-red 

 spots of the underside of the hindwing being larger and the white spots attached 

 to them smaller, the fourth red spot being usually without a vestige of white at 

 its hinder end, and the iifth and sixth spots mostly without any white scales 

 at both ends. 



Ilfth. Jamaica. 



In the Triug Museum 4 larvae, 1 yupa, 10 cJcJ, ? ?. 



