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Genitalia: c?. Apical lobe ol haqte slightly triaugnlar, rounded off; dentate 

 ridge rather strongly elevate ventrally and heavily dentate. 

 Early stages not known. 

 There are two individual forms : 



a'. F. hrancliKs f. biani-hux Uoiibl. ('Is4(i). 



PapiUo braitchus Doubleday, I.e. (Honduras) ; id., Westw. & Hew., Gen. Dinrii. Lep. i. p. 19. n. 217 

 (1846) ; Doubl., Li>'l Lep. Inn. Biil. Miis. i. Appeml p. 3 (1848) ; Gray, C»l. Lrp. Ins. Brit. 

 Miis. i. Pap. p. 62. n. 277. t. 7. fig. 3. ? (1852) (Honduras ; Guatemala) ; id., List Lep. Ins. 

 Brit. Mus. i. Pap. p. 72. n. 293 (185f)) ; Weidem., Proc. Ent. tine. Pliilml. ii. p. 146 (1803) ; 

 Feld., Verh. Zool. Hot. Ges. Wieii xiv. p. 298. n. 137 (1864) (Honduras ; Guatemala; Mexico): 

 Boisd., Consid. Lep. Guatem. p. 7 (1870) (Honduras ; Mexico ; = he/ilutestiim errore) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Ditirn. Lep. p. 5'.'3. n. 36 (1871) (Amer. centr. ; Mexico) ; Butl. & Druce, Proc. Zool. Sue. 

 Land. p. 364. n. 369 (1874) (Costa Rica) ; Obertb., Et. d Ent. iv. p. 81. n. 266 (1880) 

 (Honduras) ; Godm. & Salv., Biol. Centr. A mer., Rlioji. ii. p. 207. n. 26. t 67. fig. 7. genit. (18'.i0) 

 (Mexico : Cordova, Omealca, Atoyac, Oaxaca ; Guatemala ; Honduras ; Nicaragua ; Costa Rica). 



c? ? . Forewing with white central patch. This patch variable in size. It 

 consists in the male of a large cell-spot, a large sj)ot W — M', and a minute spot 

 R- — W, there being occasionally also a spot M' — M' ; spot R- — R' rarely absent. 

 In the female, spot R^ — R^ much larger than in the male. 



This form occnrs from Vera Crnz in Mexico to Costa Rica. 



I)', r. I /•(Die //lis f. l/elepAantes Godm. & Salv. 



Papilio belephantes Godman & Salv., /.<•. p. 208. n. 29. t. 67. fig. 0. J (1890) (Mexico: Atoyac; 

 Guatemala ; Honduras). 



(?. Forewing without white patch. 



This form is much rarer than the preceding one. It has apjiarcntly the same 

 distribution, but is so far known only from Southern Mexico, Guatemala, and 

 Honduras. 



IlaL of F. bra)wl/us : Mexico to Costa Rica. 



In the Tring Museum 26 (? cj and 2 ? ? of f. branchiis from : Cordoba, Vera Cruz, 

 2SU0 ft., July 1904 (A. Hall) : Songolica, June 1899 (W. Schaus) ; Mazatenauga, 

 W. Guatemala, lUOO ft., September 1904 (A. Hall; ; Guatemala, San Pedro Sula, 



Honduras; Cartago and Guatil Piris, Costa Rica (Underwood). 1 c? of 



f. belephantcs, no locality. 



134. Papilio belesis Bates (1804). 



Papilio helesis Gray, List Lep. In.i. Brit. Mus. i. Pap. p. 74. n. 300 (1856) (Mexico ; «om. nurf.) ; 

 Weidem., Proc.E/it. Soc. Philad. ii. p. 146 (1863) (Mexico ; no/n.nud.) ; Bates, i'/if. Mo. Mag.\. 

 p. 1. n. 1 (1864) (Guatemala). 



(??. Clo^Q io P. bianchus. Forewing usually quite black, but sometimes with 

 one or two white spots on disc ; fringe-spots nearly always distinct, except at apex 



of wing, rarely vestigial. Hindwing variable in length ; a row of six or seven red 



spots, situated parallel to distal margin and nearer to the margin than to the cell ; 

 the middle s])0ts not so much larger than the others as in P. branch/is ; size of the 

 spots very variable. 



Genitalia : S. Apical lobe of hurpe shorter and more evenly rounded than in 

 r. bi-anchtis, dentate ridge more narrowly elevate ventrally, dentition less heavy. 



Early stages not known. 



Two individual forms : 



