( 547 ) 



from Edwards' figures. We have a transitional specimen (?) caught at Passaic, 

 New Jersey (acquired for ourselves by Mr. G. Frauck). The forewing is nearly the 

 same above as below, the spots being smaller and the discocellular bar being 

 vestigial. The upperside of the right hiudwing is normal, while on the left wing 

 the first submargiual spot and the anal one are enlarged, and the other submarginal 

 spots produced discad, this additional yellow scaling, however, not being conspicuons. 

 On the nnderside the S2)ecimen agrees fairly well with calverleyi. 



Hah. of P. pohjxenes asterius : Honduras to Arizona and Canada, in North 

 America from Arizona and the Mississippi basin to the Atlantic ; a black male 

 recorded liy Wright from North California. 



In the Tring Museum 170 SS, 110 ? ?, and a series of larvae and pupae from 

 Guatemala northwards. 



In coll. Oberthiir from Honduras. 



((. P. polyxenes polyxenes Fabr. (1775). 



Papilio Eqiies Trojamm poli/.cenes Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 44-i. n. 10 (1775) (America) ; Goeze, Eiit. 



Beytr. iii. 1. p. 41. n. 7 (1779); Fabr., Sjm: Iiis. ii. p. 4. n. 13 (1781) (ia Araericae meridionalis 



insulia). 

 Pajillin Eqiies Trojanua askrms (!), Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 2. n. 13 (1787) {jvtrtiin \=jmJyxenes) ; 



Gmelin, Siixt. Nat. i. 5. p. 2228. n. 280 (1790) {jiarlim ; in insulis Americae meridionali oppositis). 

 Papilio askrias, Boisduval & Lee, Hist. Gen. Lip. Amir. Sejtt. p. 14 (1833) {pin-tim\ Antilles); Boisd., 



Spec, Gill. Lip. i. p. 332. n. 175 (183li) {partim ; Antilles) ; Poey, Mem. Soc. R. Econ. nobitiia 



p. 235 (1846) : Lucas, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba vii. p. 205 (1857) (partim) ; Weidem., Proc. Ent. 



Soc. Philad. ii. p. 146 (18C3) (partim) ; Felder, Verh. Znol. Bot. Ges. Wien xiv. p. 315. n. 361 



(1864) (partim ; insular specimens have wider band). 

 Papilio arteritis, Herricli-Sch., Corr. Bl. Zonl. Mm. Vcr. Reyensb. p. 172. n. 4 (1864) (Habana) ; Dew., 



Zeitschr. Ge.i. Naturu\ Iii. p. 158 (1879) (Cuba, larva) : iieum. , Eiit. Amer. i. p. 160 (1885) 



(Cuba, ? resembling (J) ; Smith, ibid. (1885) (relationship between asteriux, asterioides, and 



2)olyxeiies). 

 Papilio piohjxeiiex, Kirby, Cat. Diiirn. Lep. p. 566. n. 325 (1871) (partim) ; Gundl., Papilio i. p. 113 



(1881) (Cuba) ; id., Contr. Ent. Cuba p. 136 (1881) (piartiin ; Western Cuba); Auriv., K. Sv. Vet. 



A/.: Handl. xix. 5. p. 178. n. 23 (1882) (partim) ; Godm. & Sa.lv., Biol. Cenlr. Ainer., Lep. Shop. 



ii. p. 242. n. 81 (1890) (partim ; Cuba) ; Christ, Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Ges. ix. p. 271 (1897) (diff. 



from asterias). 

 Papilio asterioides, Eimer {non Reakirt, 1866, err. det.), Arlb. Verwundtsch. Schnieit. ii. p. 121. 



t. 7. fig. 6. cj, 7. ? (1895) (" Mexico " false) ; id., (Mhogeii. p. 36. 42. fig. 16 (1897) (" S. Amer."). 



There is nothing in the description given by Fabricius in 1775 which points to 

 the insect described being the present insular form ; but ia 1871 it is stated by him 

 that the insect came from South American islands. As in the case of his Sphinx 

 lusca, where the same locality is given, we apply the name to the Cuban form of 

 the species. 



£??. Very similar to ordinary North American specimens of P. p. poli/xencs, 

 the discal band of the hiudwing broader; the sexes less dissimilar, the female 

 bearing a discal band almost like the male, the band being narrower and somewhat 

 paler ; submarginal spots of underside rather larger than in P. p. polyxenes. 



Elmer's figures are a good representation of the two sexes of this insular form. 

 "We suspect that Eimer, as in the case of P. p. amerieus, trusted implicitly in the 

 correctness of the names under which he received the specimens from dealers.* 



Ilab. Cuba. 



The specimens labelled S. Domingo (Tweedie) in the British Museum and 



* See p. 417. 



