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 128. Papilio harmodius Donbl. (184G) (PL V. fig;, ifi. 19 ; PI. VIH. fig. 52). 



Papilio harmodius Doubleday, Ann. ilaij. N.H. xviii. p. .374 (1840) (Bolivia) ; Gray, Cat. Lap. Im. 

 Brit. Mus. i. Pap. p. 511. n, 272. t. 7. fig. 2 (1852) (Bolivia). 



Sexes differeiit ; female dimorphic, one form somewhat resembling the male, 

 the other form qnite different. Geographically variable. 



cJ. Dots on head, palpns, collar and coxae bnffish. Forewing semitransparent 

 in apical half, the scales being reduced in size; a white patch of variable size before 

 inner margin, sometimes reduced to a narrow streak situated behind SM-, never 

 reaching forward as far as R^, but occasionally extending across M' ; rarely a vestige 



of a band across cell.- Hindwing : a row of red spots on disc, variable in size and 



number ; a row of white arched submarginal spots, which are vestigial or absent in 

 most specimens. 



Underside much paler than upper, cell of both wings with black folds. 



Forewing with a red costal spot, Hindwing with three red spots at base, the one 



in cell being 'small and often vestigial or even absent ; discal spots more or less 

 pinkish white proximally. 



? ,. Forewing with white band across cell continuous with two large discal 

 patches R^ — M' ; spots of hindwing white or yellowish, or red centred with white. 



?2. Forewing with trace of the white markings of female; spots of hindwing 

 red. 



Scent-organ : numerous greyish scales on SM" of hindwing, these scales much 

 smaller than the scales situated before and behind this vein. 



Genitalia : S ■ Distal lobe of harpe large, rounded, proximal angle of ventral 

 dentate edge not produced. ? not dissected. 



Early stages not known. 



Hab. Colombia to Bolivia. 



The coloration of the first kind of female agrees with that of the females of 

 P. erlaces, the Ecuador females of both insects being white-banded on the hindwing, 

 the females from Northern Peru yellowish-banded, and the females from Southern 

 Peru and Bolivia red-banded. 



a. P. harmodius isus Oberth. (1880). 



Papilio xeniadcs var. isus Oberlhiir, Et. d' Eiit. iv. p. 81. sub n. 2G8 (18811) (Colombia). 

 Papilio aristogiton Staudinger, Exot. Tagf. i. p. 19. t. 1.S (1884) (Cauca). 



S ■ Forewing : white patch large, reaching from hinder margin to M- or beyond, 



being large also on the underside. Hindwing : a band of six or seven red spots 



which are paler in the centre than at the edges, being occasionally pinkish white 

 edged with red ; white submarginal biirs usually absent. 



¥ not known. 



Hab. Cauca valley, Colombia. 



5 c?(J in coll. Oberthiir, and 1 (? in coll. Godtnan. 



b. P. harmodius halex sabsp. nov. (PI. VIII. fig. 52). 



Papilio xeniadcs, Maassen & Weym. (non Hewitson, 18G8, err. det.), in Stubel, Reiscn S. Amer., 

 Lep. p. 24. n. 103 (1890) (Villavicencio). 



S. Forewing as in the preceding. Hindwing above with five red spots 



which are not paler in centre, the upj)er two spots vestigial or minute. 



?. Upper side. — Forewing with white patch from W bej-ond M-, just entering 



cell. Hindwing with five pinkish red spots ; tooth R' prominent. 



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