( 660) 

 123. Papilio microdamas Bnrm. (1878). 



PapiVio microdamas Burmeister, Z)fsr)'. Rip. Arf/enl. v. Li'p. p. G3. n. 5 (1878) (Corrientes) ; id., I.e. 

 Atlas p. 19. t. 5. fig. 8. ? (1879) , Oberth., Et. d'Eut. xii. p. 2. n. 5. t. i. fig. 3. S (1888) 

 (Cara^a, Brazil). 



(? ? . Sexes similar. A band of }-ellowish IjiifF patches from costal marg-in of 

 forewiug to aual angle of hindwing, above and below, straight on forewing, curved 

 on hindwing, variable in tint, somewhat paler on hind- thau on forewing ; spot 



within subcostal fork of forewing nsnallj' vestigial. Hindwing with a red anal 



spot, which is larger above than below, and four red basal spots on iinderside, the 

 last continnons with a red line on abdominal fold ; forewiug without red spots. 



Scent-organ : numerous narrow grey scales on SM% 



Genitalia: <?. Apical lobe of harjje rather small, dorso-ventral ridge irrega- 

 larly and rather heavily dentate, central process dentate ; ventral process short. 



Early stages not known. 



Hub. Paraguay and adjacent districts of Argentina ; Caraca, Brazil. 



lu the Tring Museum 5 c?(?, 2 ? ?, from : Patino Cu(5, Paraguay, February 

 (Montforts) ; Sapucay, Paraguay, September and December (W. Foster) ; Entre 

 Rios. 



124. Papilio protodamas Godt. (1819). 



Papilin 2>rotodumas Godart, E/ic. Melh. ix. p, 40. n. 45 (1819) (Brazil ; " (J " excl.). 

 Itliohahis hyperion Hiibner, Samnd. E.cot. Schm. ii. t. 114 (1822?) ; Burm., Descr. Rep. Argent, v- 

 Lep,, Atlas p. 6. t. 2. fig. 5 (1879) (larva and pupa). 



Godart described as P. protodamas a specimen of the present insect, adding the 

 description of another insect which he believed to be probably the i of the former. 

 The first-described insect was, in our opinion, also a cj, but that point is of no great 

 importance. The name protodamas must be applied to the first insect, not to the 

 second, of which Godart says : " Nous avous actuellement ii parler d'un individu qui 

 ponrrait bien etre le male de celni-ci." 



Htibner, I.e., figures on t. 114 the first iusect, to which he gives the new name 

 hi/perion, and on t. 115 the second insect, to which he applies Godart's na.mB proto- 

 damas. From the fact that Hiibner figures these two insects in the same order as 

 they are described by Godart, and that to one of them the name protodamas is given, 

 we conclude (1) that Hiibner knew of Godart's descriptions when he put the names 

 on his plates 114 and 115, (2) that Hiibner's plates 114 and 115 appeared after 1819, 

 the year of issue of Godart's work*), and (3) that hijperion sinks as a synonym of 

 protodamas, both names being proposed for the same iusect. In any case, we give 

 precedence to Godart's names, of which tlie year of publication is known, since there 

 is no means of proving that Hiibner's names have priority. 



cJ ? . Dichromatic in both sexes, the one form possessing on the forewing a large 

 straw-coloured patch in the cell and two large patches on the disc, while the other 

 form has only a vestigial cell-jiatch and small discal patches ; intergradations 

 between the two forms are rare. Scales of discal spots of hindwing either entire or 

 more or less denticulate. Forewing without red spots at base on underside, and 

 hindwing with three red spots. 



Scent-organ absent. 



Genitalia: $. Dorso-ventral dentate ridge of harpe slightly curved towards 



* Godart's name erander for the Brazilian form of P. ancltisiades appears on UUbncr's pi. 112, which 

 confirms the above statement. 



