( 523 ) 



j. P. pohjdamas thjamus snbsp. nov. 



rapiVio Eques Trnjimits polydamas, Esper, Aud. Schmell. p. 33. n. 12. t. 6. fig. 2 (1784). 

 Papilii} pohjdamas var,, Gray, List Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. i. Pap. p. 77. sub D. 31G (1856) (parlim ; 

 St. Thomas). 



This form stands mnch nearer P. pohid. polydamas than do the subspecies from 

 Haiti and Jamaica, though geographically imhjd. thtjamus is farther away from 

 polyd. pol'/dama.i. Esper's figure, I.e., agrees better with this subspecies than 

 with any other we know. 



(? ? . Upperside as in pohjd. polydamas ; distal margin of forewing a little 

 more strongly scalloped, tooth R' of hindwing rather prominent. 



Undersiae, hiudwing : submarginal spots rufous brick-red, much paler and 

 much larger than in polyd. pohjdamas and not quite so close to the margin, these 

 spots even paler than in the Jamaica subspecies, and as irregular in shape as in 

 polyd. polydamas ; the white spots attached to second, third, and fourth spot not 

 quite so large as in the Haiti subspecies ; the black band situated at the proximal 

 side of the red s^iots ill-defined, much narrower than in the Jamaica and Haiti forms, 

 and mnch deeper black than in polyd. pohjdamas ; a long yellowish white costal 

 streak or (instead) dispersed yellowish white scales situated along costal margin 

 from praecostal spur to thrce-fonrths ; a heavy creamy white bar proximally of red 

 anal spot. 



Genitalia as in pohjd. polydamas ; the two jirocesses of the harpe short and 

 stout. 



Ilah. St. Thomas. 



In the Tring Museum 2 c? <? (E. Hartert). A pair in the British Museum; a 

 male in coll. F. D. Godman. 



k. Papilio polydamas antiquus subsp. nov. 



PiipHio Eques Triijanus jmli/rJamas, Driny, Ilhistr. E.ciU. Ins. i. p. 32. t. 17. fig. 1. 2 (1770) 

 (Antigua). 



Known to us only from Drury's figure, which comes near the form from 

 St. Thomas, but does not agree with it. 



S . Upperside, forewing : a baud of well separated spots from SC* to inner 

 margin, the upper four spots small, the sixth, which is the largest, shorter than 



its distance from margin. Hindwing : band narrower than in the St. Thomas 



form, the black marginal area being one-third broader ; anal spot as large as in 

 t/iyamus. 



Underside, forewing : three small dots SC^ — R-, the other spots larger than 



above. Hindwing : snbmarginal spots rufous brick-red as in the St. Thomas 



form, large, the white silvery spots attached to the second to fourth spots smaller 

 than in our St. Thomas specimens. 



Hab. Antigua. 



In the following two species the abdomen is yellowisli white above in the male, 

 the first segment and the claspors excepted, the scales being tongue-shaped, entire, 

 while in the female the u^iperside is blackish green, the scales being dentate. The 

 head, thorax, and underside of the abdomen are long-hairy, the sterna, coxae, and 

 femora being greenish yellow like the sides of the abdomen. The abdominal 

 sternites are dotted with white like the palpus, but these dots are often indistinct 

 on account of the hairiness of the body. The cell of the hindwing is rather shorter 



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