( 715 ) 



S ? • Similar to penthesilaus, paler in appearance. Sabbasal band of forewing 

 tliiuner, second band also narrower, stojiping short at SM', crossing M one mm. 

 ]iro.\imally of M", the interspace between bands 1 and 2 being rather narrower 

 at M than that between bands 2 and 3; band 4 absent, or vestigial at costal 

 margin, or represented by a distinct costal spot ; band 5 subangnlate at R^, narrow 

 from R'^ costad, merged together with the marginal band at M° or close behind 

 it, the pale insterstitial spot behind M", if at all present, being smaller than 

 in penthesilaus ; marginal band less sharply defined and a little paler than in 

 penthesilaus, the scales composing it being narrower ; submarginal transparent 

 interspace bearing very narrow hairlike scales which do not fall off easily, being 

 present even in worn specimens, while the respective scales of penthesilaus, which 



are much broader, are nsnally lost even in comparatively fresh specimens. 



Red anal spot of hindwing narrower than in the Mexican form ; black postdiscal 

 Innules R" — M' on the whole more reduced, while the costal portion of the black 

 postdiscal band is a little wider than in that subspecies. 



On the mtderside the red line of the median band coutinnes along M', 

 reaching usnally the red transverse bar M' — M'^, this red bar more or less widely 

 interrupted, being, like the anal red bar, thinner than in penthesilaus. 



Genitalia: c?. Apex of harpe subtriiucate, more obtuse than in penthesilaus; 

 deflexed dorso-apical ridge less rounded-dilated than in penthesilaus ; ■ central 

 process much shorter, spatnlate, strongly dentate at apex ; ventral process also 

 much shorter, not reaching ventral edge of valve, curving distad. The clasper 

 figured by Godman & Salvin I.e., is that of this form. 



Ilah. Guatemala ; British Honduras ; Honduras ; Nicaragua. 



In the Tring Museum 12 6 S , 1?, from : Vera Paz, Guatemala ; San Pedro 

 Sula, Honduras. 



c. P. protesilaus leucones subsp. nov. 

 Papilio protesilaus, Godman & Salv., Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. p. 126. n. 235 (1880) (Sta. Marta). 



S. Resembling P. p. macrosilaus. Black dorsal line of abdomen absent (type), 

 or very narrow. Wings, upperside. — Forewing : first band thin, stopping short 

 at SM-, second band continued to hinder margin or nearly (type), interspace 

 between second and third band of the same width at M as between second and 

 first band ; fourth band short ; sixth band narrow from R^ forward ; transparent 

 submarginal space with hair-scales as in Honduras specimens of macrosilaus, the 



wing in costal region less densely scaled than in archesilaus and dariensis. 



Hindwing : red spot large, black postdiscal lunules R- — M' ill-defined, shaded with 

 white, white ad- and submarginal interspaces large, especially the submarginal spot 

 R^ — R' ; edge of wing white, except at tip of veins, but the fringes partly black 

 between C and R= ; dentition of wing much less prominent than in the other 

 Colombian forms and the Central American ones. 



Underside. — Forewing : postdiscal band more straight from M' to SM- than 



in the allied forms of P. protesilaus. Hindwing : median band half as broad 



again as snbbasal band ; black admarginal bars C — R^ thin ; white submarginal si)ot 

 R' — R- nearly as wide as the admarginal lunule ; white submarginal spot R- — W 

 twice as broad as the admarginal spot. 



Genitalia resembling those of mao'osilaus, but differ in one or more of the 

 teeth at the ventral edge of the harpe being prolonged, and vertical on the plane 



