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Scent-organ : scales similar to those of P. agesilaus. 



Genitalia : <?. Harpe reserablinj!; that of P. philolatts, dentition slightly 

 different, proximal edge of central process subdeutate, ventral process vestigial. 

 The three lobes of tenth tergite a little longer. ? not dissected. 



Early stages not known. 



The species does not vary mnch. The fourth black bandof the forewing reaches 

 usually to the median vein, but is often narrowed behind or abbreviated. The 

 submarginal spots of the forewing vary in size and distinctness, the whole series 

 being sometimes more or less washed with black. In a male from Venezuela, in 

 coll. Godman, the cell-bands of the forewing are washed over with black. The 

 single Colombian specimen in the Felder collection differs rather obviously from 

 the only Venezuelan individual which Dr. Felder had for comparison when he 

 described the former specimen as belonging to another species, which he named 

 anaxila.us. The differences are, however, not constant. The small series of 

 Colombian specimens which we have seen proves that the individuals vary inter se. 



Hab. Venezuela and Colombia. 



In the Tring Museum Q SS from : V^alera ; " Venezuela" (Moritz) ; Bogota. 



140. Papilio epidaus Doubl. (1840). 



Papilio epidaus Doubleday, ia Doubleday, Westw. & Hew., Gen. Diurn. L'p. i. p. lu. n. 138. t. 3. 

 fig. 1 (1846) (Mexico ; Honduras). 



c? ? . Antenna black, occasionally brown at the apex of the segments ; scaling 

 black, usually fallen off'. Tibae and tarsi pale green ; mid- and hindtibial spurs 

 about as long as the tibia is broad, inner one a little longer than outer. 



Scaling of wings peculiar. Fvrevfiug, !/jipersic/e : black bands densely scaled, 

 scales dentate, those of marginal band somewhat narrower than the scales of the 

 other bands ; the white scales all very narrow, sinuate, distant from each other, 

 therefore the wing more or less transparent, the hinder portion, however, appearing 

 o])aque owing to the denser white scaling of the undersuriiice shining through. 

 If the wing is looked at in a slanting position, the eye being between light and 

 specimen, a broad elongate-triangular band situated between distal margin and cell 

 appears transparent, while the rest of the wing is more or less white, apart from 

 the black liands ; this transparent band is covered with minute black scales on the 

 upperside, being quite naked on the underside. The homology of this band is easy 

 to perceive, the band corresponding to the postdiscal band of P. agesilaus, which 

 is a double one ; the pale line which divides this postdiscal band of /■■. agesilaus 

 (most distinctly in P. agesilaus aiitosilaus) is represented in P. epidaus by a white 

 costal si)ot. The external edge of the transparent band of P. epidaus is usually 

 more densely scaled than the centre, at least at the costal margin, forming a black 

 proximal border to the white submarginal band, the border extending often down 

 to M-. The jiroximal portion of the postdiscal band of P. agesilaus is in P. epidaus 

 represented by a black costal spot situated proximally of the subcostal fork, aad 

 by a black baud which runs from the lower angle of the cell towards the hinder 

 angle of the wing, being a direct continuation of the discocellnlar band. The 

 subapical cell-band is represented by a costal spot in must specimens, there being 

 from this spot across the cell a faint band of dispersed minute black scales ; 

 occasionally the band is distinct as far as middle of cell. Most of the scales in 

 the costal and central area of the hindwing are entire. 



