( 717 ) 



e. P. profesilaiis archesilaus Fold. (1S67) (PI. IX. fi;,'. 66). 



Piiji'ilio archesilaus Felder, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien xiv. p. 301. n. 180, p. 345. n. 89 (18r,4) 

 (Bogota) ; id., Reise Novara, Lep. p. 51. n. 39. t. 11. fig. a. b (1865) (Bogota) ; Oberth., 

 Et. d'Enl. iv. p. 67. n. 182 (1880) (parlim ; Muzo, October) ; Hahnel, Iris iii. p. 203 (18'J0) 

 (Valera ; large insect). 



Papilio proteailaus var. d. P. archesilaus, Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 556. sub n. 2-18 (1871). 



Papilio protesilaus, Eimer, Artb. Verwandtsch. Schiii. t. 1. fig. 5 (1889). 



Papilio podalirius var. archesilaus, Staudinger, Exot. Tagf. i. p. 17 (1884) (Venezuela). 



Papilio penthesilaus, Godman & Salvia (no7i Felder, 1865, err. det.), Biol Cenlr. Amer., Rhop. p. 214. 

 n. 40 (1890) {parlim ; Colombia). 



Papilio jnotesilaus ruhrocinclus archesilaus, Eimer, I.e. p. 106 (1889) (Colombia). 



Papilio glaucolaus, Eimer {non Bates, 18G4, err. det.). I.e. p. 107 note (1889). 



Papilio protesilaus ruhrociucius archesilaus (jlaueoUms, id.. I.e. p. 108 (1889) (this form ? Panama 

 wrong locality ? ; on p. 107 " largest ^)rotes(7nw.« "). 



(?. Usually larger than p. protesilaus, hindwing more strongly dentate, median 

 band of underside of hindwing mostly more distal ; the apex of the cell more or less 

 bordered with red inside, ventral process of harpe on the whole more densely 

 denticulate. In the specimens from the Rio Dagna (West Coast) and from the 

 Canca valley the red line R^ — M' of the underside of the hindwing is shorter than 

 in individuals from other places, being only a little produced along M^ The 

 individual variability in the bands appears to be considerable ; band 4 of forewing 

 rarely absent, sometimes reaching almost across the cell. ? not known to us. 



Length of forewing : 6, 50 to 60 mm. 



Hab. Colombia, Northern Venezuela, Western Ecuador. 



Eimer, I.e., says under what he terms " protesilaus rubrocinctus mihi " : " Here 

 belong the large forms which live in the neighbourhood of the Equator, from 

 Colombia to Mexico." The purport of this innocent-looking statement will be under- 

 stood if one remembers that according to Eimer there is a " law " that the forms of 

 a species are the smaller the farther away from the Equator (non-tropical countries) 

 they live. Now, in the case of protesilaus this statement is very unfortuiinte, 

 inasmuch as the form of protesilaus living under or near the Equator (namely in 

 the Amazon valley, East Ecuador and Peru) is smaller than the more northern 

 forms. 



In the Tring Museum 114 $$ from: R. Dagua (Rosenberg); "Bogota"; 

 Peperital to Buenavista, January 1897, dry season (Dr. Burger) ; Guayaquil, 

 Colombia, January ; Paramba, N.W. Ecuador, 35U0 ft., March 1897, dry season 

 (Rosenberg) ; Mocotone and Merida, Venezuela (Briceno) ; Campo Alegre, Cumana, 

 January 1899 (Andre). 



/. F. protesilaus protesilaus L. (1758) (PI. IX. fig. 07). 



Papilio Eques Achirus protesilaus Linn^, I.e. (1758) (partim). 



Papilio protesilaus, Godart, I.e. (1819) (iiartim); Boisd., I.e. (1836) (parlim); Lacord., Ann. Soe. 

 Eut. Fr. ii. p. 383 (1833) (Guyane) ; Doubl., List Lep. Ins. Brit. .\Ius. i. p. 9 (1845) (partim ; 

 Brit. Guiana) ; Wall., Trans. Eut. Soo. Loud. (2). ii. p. 254 (1854) (.Vmazons, habits) ; Gray, 

 List Lep. Ins. Brit. Mas. i. Pap. p. 45. n. 168 (1856) {partim ; R. Demerara) ; Butler, Cat. 

 Diurn. Lep. deser. Fahr. p. 239. n. 21 (1869) (Demerara) ; Moschl., Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien 

 xxvi. p. 296 (1876) (Surinam ; partim) ; Butler, Auu. .Mag. N. II. (4). xx. p. 127. n. 60 (1877) 

 (Uoayali) ; id., Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. p. 146. n. 228 (1877) (R. Maui's, May ; Uraria, May ; 

 R. Negro, near Manaos, June) ; Obertli., Et. d!Ent. iv. p. 66. n. 181 (1880) (partim ; Obydos ; 

 Cayenne) ; Hahuel, Iris iii. p. 250 (1890) (Mau(>s) ; id., I.e. p. 283 (1890) (Pebas) ; Sharpe, Proc. 



