( 569 ) 

 72. Papilio aristodemus Esp. (1794). 



Papilio Eques Acliivui: aristodemus Esper, Macja:. Neucst. Aiisl. Iiis. p. 8. t. 2 (1794); id., Ansl. 



Schmett. p. 240. n. 113. t. .59. fig. 2 (1798) (" Cuba" false). 

 Papilio aristoilemus, Boisduval, .S/jcc. Gen. Lep.i. p. 357. n. 199 (1830); Vollenh., Tijdschr. Ent. iii. 



p. 86. n. 141 (1860) (Antilles). 

 Papilio daphnis Gray (ex Martyn, Psi/clte, errore), Cat. Lep. Ins. Brit. JUiis. i. Pap. p. 39. n. 198 



(1852) (partim) ; id., List Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. i. Pap. p. 54. n. 209 (185G) (nynon. 2>artint ; 



S. Domingo); Weidem., Proc. Ent. Snr. Philad. ii. p. 147 (18(53) (West Indies, partim ; 



" Mexico " false). 

 Papilio crcsj)honfi?nis Martyn, Psiiche (ined.), t. 3. fig. 8, t. 4. fig. 10. (1797) ; Kirby, Cat. Biiirii. 



Lep. p. 542. D. 168 (1871); Burm., Dcscr. i.V>. Arrjent. v. Lep. p. 58. n. 2 (1878) (var. of */toa.s !) ; 



Gundl., Contr. Eut. Cuba. p. 130 (1881) (Cuba ; S. Domingo ; Porto Rico ; "Mexico" false). 



S ? . Antenna yellow at base of club in most specimens. 



Underside of both wings more extended yellow tban in P. thoas ; cell of 

 forewing not striped with black ; cell of hiudwing either all yellow or bearing 

 a small black spot at apex; yellow submarginal spots of both wings merged 

 together to a band which is anteriorly on forewing not separated from the basi- 

 discal area ; black discal band of hindwing narrow, bearing a row of large bine 

 spots, and being bordered proximally by dirty rufous red scaling, which is some- 

 times absent or vestigial. Tail black on upperside, edged behind with yellow 

 from base to near apex, beneath more or less yellow in middle. 



Genitalia : S. Tenth tergite spatulate ; sternite with small, obtuse, double 

 ridge at the sides ; harpe long, acuminate, nearly straight, flat, denticulate at 

 apex, armed with a very long, thorulike process ventrally before the middle, 



homologous to the process of P. lycopkron. ? . Armature of the same type as 



in P. lycophron ; edge of orifice anteriorly raised into a compressed tubercle which 

 extends into the orifice, lateral edge elevate, thin, abruptly ending posteriorly ; 

 behind orifice a membranaceous tubercle densely covered with minute hairs ; 

 laterally of the orifice a large lobe bearing numerous long, thornlike teeth at 

 the edge, and further laterad a small chitinised depression, the free external 

 edge of which is rounded. 



Early stages not known. 



Hah. Cuba ; Haiti. 



Two subspecies. 



The sjjecies connects P. thoas with P. li/cophron and allies. 



a. P. aristodemus temenes Godt. (1819). 



Papilio temenes Godart, Euc. Mith. ix. p. 63. n. 104 (1819) (" Antilles and North America") ; 



Oberth., Bull. Sue. Ent. France p. 176. fig. 4 (1897). 

 Papilio tecmenes (!), Lacordaire, A7vi. Soe. Ent. Fr. ii. p. 384 (1833). 

 Papilio aristodemus, Boisduval, I.e. (1836) (= temenes) ; Poey, Mem. R. Soc. Econ. Hubana p. 235 



(1846) ; Lucas, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba vii. p. 206. t. 16. fig. 2. 2a (1857) (jmrtim ■ Cuba) ; 



Herr.-Sch., Corre-yi. Bl. Zool. Uin. Ver. Rerjensb. p. 174. n. 12 (1864) (Cuba). 

 Papilio daphnis Gray, /..-. [partim) ; Felder, I.e. xiv. p. 309. n. 290 (1864) (partim ; Cuba). 

 Papilio rresjdionli/iiis, Doubl., Westw. it Hew., Gen. Diurn. Lep. i. p. 1-7. n. 173 (1846) (= Imtenes) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 542. n. 158 (1871) (partim) ; Gundl., Contr. Ent. Cuba. p. 130(ISK1) 



(partim ; Cuba) ; id., Papilio i. p. 113 (1881) (Cuba). 



This form has always been treated as being identical with the Haiti form until 

 Mons. Charles Oberthiir, I.e., pointed out the differences. 



(J ¥ . Forewing : discal band broad, of nearly even width from II- to hiud- 



