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Ventral process of liarpe not reaching to ventral edge of 



clasper g. 



f. Doflexed edge of dorso-apical ridjie of Iiarpe uon-deutate . Species No. 154. 

 Defiexed edge of dorso-apical ridge of barpe serrate 



proximal]}' Species No. 152. 



(j. Central process of harpe short, broad, strongly dentate . Species No. 155. 



Central process of harpe slender, its teeth vestigial . . Species No. 153. 



148. Papilio agesilaus Gner. (1835). 



Pcipilio Eques Achivus protesilaus, Esper {nnn Linno, 1758, err. det.), Ansl. Schmrll. p. 2U7. n. 95. 



t. 52. fig. 1 (180.3?) (iMu-lim). 

 Papilio protesilaus, Godart, Enc. Metli. ix. p. 50. n. 73 (1819) (partitn). 

 Papilio agesilam Guerin & Percheron, Gen. Ins. Lip. t. 1. fig. 1 (18.35) (R. Magdalena, Colombia) ; 



Boisd., Spec. Gin. i. p. 2G3. n. 86 (1836) (Mexico ; Colombia) ; Doubl., Westw. & Hew., Gen. 



Diiini. Le/i. i. p. 15. n. 136 (1846) (Mexico; Colombia) ; Eimer, Arih. Verwamllsch. Sclim. 



p- 98 (1889) ; id., Orthogen. pp. 44. 47. 111. 139. 217. 497 (1897). 



(? ? . Antenna hrownish black, scaled black on npperside in fresh specimens. 

 Tibiae and tarsi pale green, scaled white, scales easily falling off, tips of tarsn! 

 segments ochraceous ; mid- and hindtibial spurs a little shorter than the tiliia 

 is briiad. 



Wings greenish white ; a few scales on disc of forewing, iippcrs/df, the scales 

 from SC- of hiiidwing to costal margin and a large percentage of the scales between 

 SC° and II' of hindwing, entire ; on underside the scales all denticulate, excejit 

 between SM- of hindwing and abdominal margin ; scales in apical area of forewing 

 reduced, those of the transparent snbmarginal band very narrow, as are those in 

 the costal area jiroximally of the black jsostdiscal band. Forewing with seven 



black bands, subapical cell-band the most variable one, sometimes vestigial. 



Hindwing, below, with black subbasal band which is almost parallel to abdominal 

 margin, a black median band converging with the former, beginning at costal 

 margin proximally of middle, meeting the subbasal band distally, or being 

 abbreviated, bordered with red on proximal side ; a red costal spot at distal side 

 of subbasal band, another distally at proximal side of the band, besides the two 

 red transverse spots situated near anal angle : these anal spots present also above, 



bordered with white in front, at least on the underside. Tlie female is like the 



male, but has rather larger pale subraargiual spots on the hindwing. 



Neuration : D= of hindwing shorter than D' + D', seldom as long as these 

 cross-veins together. 



Scent-organ : scent-scales forming a layer of black-brown wool ; long hairs 

 black-brown, thin, ending in a long fine point, not ending abruptly as in P. telesilaiis 

 or P. tnarcellus ; no scales underneath the wool, except on SC. 



Genitalia: S. Tenth tergite trilobate; dorso-ventral ridge of harpe reaching 

 ventral edge proximally of middle, the apical lobe of harpe being long, ventral 

 process present. 



Early stages not known. 



Ilab. From Goyaz, Brazil, and Bolivia to Panama, and again from Honduras 

 to Mexico ; not yet known from Costa Eica and Nicaragua. 



Four very distinct geograjjliical races. 



There are some peculiarities in the variability of this species which are worth 

 special notice. The subbasal band of the hindwing is present on the npperside 



