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Oue of the commonest Papilios in Bogota collections. It is known from the 

 ('auca and Magdalena valleys, and occnrs also on the eastern side of the ('ordilh'va 

 of Bogota. The insect comes very close to P. lacandones. As we know as yet 

 nothing of the occurrence of P. lacandones in Colombia, and as dioxippus is 

 a]iparently restricted to that country, it is not impossible that dioxippus may turn 

 out to be the Colombian representative of lacandones. However, as the lacandotu's 

 form which occnrs from Ecuador to Bolivia agrees both in structure and pattern 

 closely with the Central American form, it is hardly probable that the Colombian 

 dioxippus, which differs in structure and pattern from both lacandones forms, is a 

 third form of the same species. 



S. Forewiug with two to five submargiual spots ; discal area often reaching 

 beyond W, but never up to R^ ; the two distal posterior spots in cell usually merged 

 together, rarely quite separated from one another; the brown excision, at the base of 

 M', of the yellowish discal area is seldom absent (for instance, in type specimen). 

 The purplish white submargiual spots R- — M" on the underside of the hiudwing are 

 always present, the posterior one being, however, often much reduced. 



(Scent-organ : wool creamy ; scales beneath it mostly entire, truncate, apically 

 brcjader than in P. marchandi. 



Genitalia : Upper angle of dentate ridge of harpe rounded. 



? and early stages not known. 



Hab. Colombia : Magdalena and Cauca valleys ; Llanos of Rio Meta. 



In the Tring Museum 140 S$ from: '"Bogota"; Muzo, December 1896; 

 Pereira, Cauca. 



In coll. Godman from: Cauca valley (Ribbe); Quiudia, 4000 ft. (Wheeler); 

 Muzo ; Llanos de R. Meta (Child). 



160. Papilio lacandones Bates (1864). 



Papilio lacanchnes Bates, Ent. Mo. Mag. i. p. 4. n. G (1804) (Guatemala). 



S. Near P. dioxippits Hew. (1855), with which it apparently occurs together 

 in Colombia. The yellowish discal area of the forewing extends anteriorly to R' or 

 beyond ; the remnant of the yellowish subapical cell-band stands distally of base 

 of R^, beiug widely separate from the (tell-spot which precedes it at hinder edge 

 of cell. The hindwing is proportionately longer than in P. dioxippus, the pale 

 submarginal spot M'— M- of the underside absent or just vestigial, and the cell 

 narrower. 



Scent-organ as in P. dioxippus ; the white scales beneath the wool and discally 

 of the fold rather broader and mostly rounded at apex. 



Genitalia as in P. dioxippus, but the upper angle of the dentate ridge 

 acuminate, not rounded. 



? and early stages not known. 



Hab. Guatemala to Bolivia; two subspecies. 



a. P. lacandones lacandones Bates (1855). 



Papilio lacamloiiea Bates, (.<■. (Guatemala) ; Godm. & Si\v.,Bio!. Ceiilr. Amcr., IVwp. ii. p. -'If!, n. 43. 



t. 67. fig. 11. 12. (J, la. harpe (1890) (Guatemala ; Pauama; ''Ecuador ; Peru" alia subspecies). 

 Papilio lacandores (!), Felder, Verh. Znol. B„t. Ge.s. Wien xiv. p. 301), n. 16;i (1864) (Guatemala; 



cit. falsa). 

 Papilio dioxippus var. a. P. lacandonei, Kirby, Cat. Diurii. Lep. p. 555. sub n. 240 (1871) (Guatemala). 

 Papilio dioxippus, HopfEer, Stell. Ent. Zeit. xl. p. 47. n. 2 (1879) (_ parti m ; Guatemala). 



