( 624) 



hairy at iibdominal margin in male ; basal cellule long and narrow, spur near its 

 apex, SC near its base ;; SC" from before middle of cell. Tenth abdominal tergite 

 of male bifurcate ; harpe long, gradually tapering to a point, somewhat flexuose, 

 similar in the three species. Spines on upperside of tibiae and tarsi few iu number 

 and short in both sexes. 

 Key to the species : 



a. Hindwiug black for the greater part Species No. 107. 



Hindwing with large central orange area .... d. 



b. Hindwing with a black spot iu cell and several around cell . Species No. 10.5. 

 No such spots on hindwing Species No. 106. 



105. Papilio zagreus Doubl. (1S4T). 



Pajjilio sai7)-f»sDoubleday, Ann. May. N. II. xix. p. 174 (1847) (Venezuela) ; id., Westw. & Hew., 

 Gen. bliim. Lep. i. t. 1. fig. 1. $' (1847) ; iid., I.e. ii. p. 529 (1852) ; Gray, Cut. Lep. Ins. Brit. 

 Mtis. i. Pap. p. 8. n. 30 (1852) (Venezuela ; " Quito " alia species) ; id., Li.-^i Lep. Ins. Brit. 

 Mu.^.i.Pap. p. 9. n. 33 (185t;) ; Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. (2). v. p. 349 (1861) (Ega, 

 November, one example) ; id., Joiirn. Ent. i. p. 229. n. 35 (1862) (Upper Amazous) : Felder, 

 Verh. Ziml. Bot. Ges. Wien .\iv. p. 312. n. 322 (1864) (Bogota ; Venezuela ; Ega) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Diurn. Lep. p. 538. n. 142 (1871) ; Druce, Proc. Zonl. Soc. Land. p. 246. D. 17 (1876) (Pozuzo) ; 

 Hopff., Stett. Ent. Zeit. xl. p. 53. n. 24 (1879) (N. Granada, Venezuela, Amazons, Bolivia) ; 

 Obertb., Et. d'Ent. iv. p. 99. n. 312 (1880) (Guayaquil) ; Stand., E.t<it. Tagf. p. 15. t. 10. ^ 

 (1884) (South Peru to Venezuela) ; Dognm, Lip. Loja p. 15 (1887); Hahnel, Iris iii. p. 149 

 (1890) (San Estt^ban) ; Dognin, I.e. p. 37 (1891); Haase, Untermch. J/Zmwy i. p. 94 (1893) ; 

 Kirby, in Allen's Nat. Libr., Lep. Butt. ii. p. 284 (1896) ; Eimer, Orthogen. p. 209 (1897). 



(? ? . In spite of the large area inhabited by this species there is no decided 

 geographical variation. The individual variability in the size of the creamy and 

 orange markings of the forewiug and in the black spots of the hindwing being 

 considerable, all the differences between specimens from northern and southern 

 localities which may be discovered in a small series of individuals disappear when 

 a larger number of specimens is compared. The only difl'erence which ajiproaohes 

 constancy is iu the colour of the cell-bar of the upperside of the forewiug, this bar 

 being pure cream-colour in Colombian and Venezuelan males, rarely showing a 

 trace of orange, wliile it is more or less orange at the discal end in the majority 

 of the specimens from Ecuador, Pern and Bolivia. The black dorsal stripe of the 

 abdomen is absent from the female ; in one of our Ecuadorian males the black 

 ventral stripe of the abdomen is wanting. 



Genitalia : i. The processes of the tenth tergite long, similar to those of 

 P. backus, being much longer than in P. ascolius. Harpe long, very narrow, the 



apex being curved inwards. ?. Lobe situated in front of the vaginal orifice 



short, rotundafe-f ruucafe ; lateral flap very large ; transverse fold or low ridge 

 situated behind vaginal orifice continued laterad, disappearing on the inner side 

 of the lateral flaps. 



Early stages not known. 



IJa/j. Venezuela, Colombia, southward to Bolivia. 



In the Tring Museum 47 c?c?, 1 ? , from : Onaca, S. Marta, 2000 ft. (Chas. 

 Engelke) ; Villavicencio to Monte Eedondo, March— Ajiril 1807 (Dr. Burger) ; 

 Viliaviccncio to R. Ocoor, January 1897 (Dr. Biirger) ; "Bogota"; Zamora 

 (0. T. Baron); Chanchamayo, Peru (Schunke) ; Pozuzo, Hudnuco, 800— lOUO m. 

 (\V. Hoflmanus) ; La Union, 11. Huacamayo, Carabaya, 2000 ft., November 1904 

 (G. Ockenden) ; Reyes, E. Beni, August 1895 (Stuart) ; Guanay, Mupiri R., 

 August 189.5, 1500 ft. (Stuart). 



