( 543 ) 



Papilio americim, Edwards, Papilin iii. p. 55 (1883) (Panama ; Cbiriqui) ; Stand., E.rut. Tmif. p. 18 

 (1884) (jiarlhn ; Honduras to Chiriqui) ; Godm. & Salv., Bin/. Centr. Amer., Leji. Rhnp. ii. 

 p. 243. n. 82. t. 72. fig. 8. genit. (1890) [partim \ Costa Rica ; Chiriqui ; not farther north) ; 

 Eimer, Arthild. Verimndtsih. Srhmell. ii. p. 125. t. 7. fig. 3. ? (1895) (partim). 



S ? . The Central Ainericaa specimens do not vary so much inter se as do the 

 South American ones, the present subspecies being monochromatic. The yellow band 

 across the disc of both wings is always broad, not varying very much in width ; 

 the last spot of this band on the forewing is about as long as the patch before it, 

 not projecting basad. There is sometimes a postmedian cell-bar present above and 



below, being larger on underside. On the hindwing the inner edge of the band 



crosses the cell at point of origin of SC- or proxiraally of it. 



On the niidcrside the' band is proximally much more sharply defined than in 

 the South American form, the hindwing being jnirer black from base to band. 



Hab. Costa Rica; Chiriqui; Sevilla I., Pacific side of Panama; Honduras 

 {teste Staudinger, I.e.) ; name-type from Costa Rica. 



The only specimen (a ?) from Sevilla Island which we have is of interest, the 

 anal ocellus lacking the black dot above and below. 



Eimer's figure, I.e., is undoubtedly taken from a female of the present subspecies 

 (probably from a Chiriqui specimen received from Messrs. Staudinger & Bang-Haas), 

 though the habitat is given beneath the figure as being Colombia, Venezuela, and 

 Ecuador, which countries are inhabited by the preceding subspecies. 



The dot in the yellow spot SC — SC is absent from one of our Chiriqui females. 



In the Tring Museum 46 c? cj, 14 ? ? , from : Sevilla I., January 1902 (Batty) ; 

 Chiriqui ; Boquete, Chiriqui, 3500 ft. (Watson) ; San .Juan, Costa Rica, 4000 ft., 

 September 1904 (A. Hall) ; Carillo, Costa Rica, 3000 ft., October 1904 (A. Hall) ; 

 S. Jos^, 4000 ft., October 1904 (A. Hall); Escazu, Costa Rica, October 1903 

 (Underwood); Puriscal, October 1903 (Underwood) ; Cartago (Underwood) ; Guatil 

 Piris, December 1901 (Underwood); Alahuela, 4000 ft., September 1904 (A. Hall). 



e. Papilio pohjxenes asterius Cram. (1782). 



Petiver, Gas,q,h. t. G. fig. 12 (1709). 

 Pdpllio Eques Achivus ajax Liane, Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 462. n. 26 (1758) (^)fi)((m) i Clerck, 7™n. 



Lis. ii. t. 33. fig. 3. ^ (1764). 

 Pajnlio Eqiies Trojcimis trnilus, Drury {non Lian^, 1758, err. det.), lllustr. Exot. Ins.i. p. 22. t. 11. 



fig. 2. (J, 3. ? , and Index (1770-71) (N. York ; Maryland ; Virginia) ; Fabr.,Sys^ Ent. p. 444. 



n. 7 (1775) (parlim) ; Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 25. t. 207. fig. A. ? (1779) (N. York ; 



"Jamaica" false ; ocellus blind) ; Goeze, Ent. Beyli: iii. 1. p. 31. n. 6 (1779) (partim) ; Jabl. 



& Herbst, Naturs. Schmelt. ii. p. 242. n. 58. t. 17. fig. 3. 4 (1784) (parlim). 

 Papilio Eques AehiruH asterius Cramer, Pap. E.rot. iv. p. 194. t. 385. fig. C. D. ^ (1782) (N. York ; 



Carolina ; Virginia) ; Esper, Aiisl. Sclimett. p. 47. n. 18. t. 11. fig. 1. 2 (1786) (N. York). 

 Papilio Eques Trojanus poli/xeiies, Jabl. & Herbst, Nalia-s. Srhmelt. ii. p. 253. t. 18. fig. 1. g (1784) 



(= asterius = ajax Clerck ; puirlitn). 

 Papilio Eques Trojanus asterias (!), Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 2. n. 13 (1787) (ixirtim) ; Gmelin, 



Si/st. Nat. i. 5, p. 2228. n. 280 (1790) (partim) ; Fabr., Ent. Sijst. iii. 1. p. 6. n. 16 (1793). 

 Papilio troilus, Abbot & Smith, Ins. Geortjia ii. p. 1. t. 1. (J. ? . 1. p. (1797); Butler, Cut. Diurn. Lep. 



ilescr. Fabric, p. 249. n. 52 (1869) (" S. Domingo" perhaps erroneous, the ? in Brit. Mns. 



being like ordinary North American ? ? ). 

 Papilio asterias, Esper, I.e. p. 248. t. 40ii. fig. 6. ? (1798) ; Gray, Cat. Lep. Ins. Brit, il/us. i. Pap. 



p. 37. n. 184 (1852) ; id., List Lep. Ins. Brit. Mns. i. p. 51. n. 193 (1856) (partim) ; Gosse, 



Letters from Alabama p. 78 (1859); Rrak., Proc. Ent. Sor. Philad. vi. p. 123 (1867) (Colorado) , 



Strecker, Butt. Moths N. Amer. p. 71. n. 17 (1878) ; Haase, Untersiie/i. Mimicr;/ i. p. 92 (1893) ; 



Grant, Canad. Ent. xxviii. p. 273 (1890) (Orillia, Ont., formerly common, now rare) ; Eimer, 



Orthogen. p. 37. fig. 17 (1897) ; Bubna, Ent. News viii. p. 98 (1897) (Cleveland, Ohio ; common 



