(724) 



curving apicad ; central process broad, short, spatnlate, heavily dentate, the teeth 

 somewhat curving basad, the process bearing one or two teeth on the ventral 

 side near the base. 



? and early stages not known. 



Ilnb. Ecuador : Zamora, 3o00— 4000 ft. (0. T. Baron), ti/pe ; Zarnma, 

 1000 m., June 1899, wet season (Simons); three S3 in the Tring Museum. 



Judging from the genitalia, it appears to us jiossiblethat P.cnris, P. orthosilaus 

 and P. helios may turn out to be geographical races of one sjiccics. However, the 

 materia] examined is as yet quite insufficient to decide the question. 



150. Papilio telesilaus Feld. (18G4). 



Pnpilio Eques Acliivtis protesilmis, Jablonsky & Herbst (iioii Linn^, 1758, err. det.), Xnttirs. Schm. 



iii. p. 147. n. 97. t. 43. fig. .3. 4 (1788) (" Carolina & Jamaica," errore). 

 Priiirejjs heroicus jn'rilesilaun, Hiibner, Samntl. E.rol. Srhm. i. t. 108 (180G — ?). 

 Iplih-lkkx prolesUauK, id., Verz. hel: Sehm. p. 82. n. 834 (1818?) 

 Papilio protesilaus, Godart, Em: AtHh. ix. p. 50. n. 73 (1819) (partini). 

 Papilio telesilaus ¥e\der, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. M'ioi xiv. p. .'iOl. n. 179 (18(54) (Amazonia; Nova 



Granada ; Brasilia austral.). 



(?¥. Body and wings more pervaded with yellow than in P. protesilans. 

 Antenna always tawny, though varying in depth of colour. Frons always 



3-ellowish white at sides. Forewing less densely scaled in costal area than in 



South American P. protesilaus, the small scales falling easily otf, tlie anterior 

 aud discal portions of the wing appearing naked, glossy ; first and second bands 

 closer together than second and third in nearly every specimen ; fourth band 

 sometimes reaching as far as third cell-fold, usually very short, often reduced to 

 a dot, not rarely absent ; sixth band close to lower angle of cell, which it touches 

 in many specimens, more or less reduced in width from this angle of cell forwards, 

 this costal portion sometimes practically separate from the posterior ]>ortiou, the 



latter then being continuous with the discocellular baud. Hindwing : submar- 



ginal spots R- — M- huffish yellow, often the whole anal region strongly pervaded 

 with yellow above and below ; blue admarginal scales entire, or some with small 

 teeth. 



Scent-organ : Lair-scales long, but decidedly shorter aud broader than in 

 P. protesilaus. 



Genitalia : $. Deflexed dorso-apical ridge of harpe not or very little dilated, 

 not enlarged into a tooth ; ventral process reaching ventral edge of clasper ; 

 central jirocess either simple or bearing at the base on the ventral side a dentate 

 ridge, the apex being in this case also strongly dentate. ? not dissected. 



Early stages not known. 



Ilah. Panama to Southern Brazil and Paraguay. 



a. P. telesilaus dolius subsp. nov. 



Papilio protesilans var. macrosiluus, Bates (inin Gray, 1852, err. det.), Proc. Zool. Soc. Loiicl. p. 241. 



n. 2 (18G3) (Panama). 

 Papilio telesilaus, Godm. & Salv., Biol. Ceutr. Amei:, liliop. ii. p. 215. n. 41 (1890) (Panama; 



" S. America " alia sub.«p.). 



<J. First band of forewing not continued along SIP to hinder margin, stoj>ping 



short at SM-. Friuge of hindwing more extended white between C and \i" than 



in the following form, black postdiscal Innules 11^ — M' on the whole smaller, the 

 blfick submarginal bar K- — 1\' reaching H'' halfway between the black postdiscal 



