( 738) 



a. P. orabilis orahilis Bntl. (1872). 



Papilio orabilis Butler, l.r. ; id., Lep. Exot. p. 103. t. 58. Eg. 1 (1874) ; id. & Druce, Pmr. Zaol. 

 Soc. Loml. p. 3G5. n. 372 (1874) (Costa Rica) ; Kirby, Cul. Diurn. Lrp. p. 813. n. 380 (1877) 

 (Costa Rica) ; StauJ., Exnt. Taijf. i. p. 17 (1884) : Godra. .t Salv., Uiol. Ceiitr. Ainer., Rhop. 

 ii. p. -210. D. 42. t. 07. fig. 14. g, 15. genit. (IS'.til) (Guatemala; Costa Rica; Panama.— 

 " Colombia " alia subsp.). 



S . The black obliqne discal band of the hindvving not marked on the nii])erside, 

 only shining thronsrh from below. Discal spot R' — R-of forewing, upperside, usually 

 absent, obliiine black median band often not reaching M-, the j)ortion between 

 cell and M- being shaded with greenish white, especially often in Costa Rica 

 specimens. 



riab. Guatemala (a specimen in the Berlin Mnscnui, doubtful ?) ; Costa Rica ; 

 Bugaba and Chiriqui, Panama. 



In the Tring Museum S Si from: Carillo, Costa Rica, June — July 1903 

 (Underwood) ; Carillo, 3000 ft., October 1904 (A. Hall) ; Volcan de Chiriqni, 

 5000—8000 ft. (Watson). 



b. P. orabilis isocharis subsp. nov. 

 Papilio orabilis, Godman & Salv., I.e. (partim ; Colombia). 



(?. Upperside. — Forewing : black median baud always extending to M- ; 

 distal border a little wider than in P. o. orabilis ; greenish white discal spot 



R' — R- always present. Hindwing : black distal border wider than in the 



preceding form, sending out obliquely forward a spur corresponding to the 

 oblique band of the underside, the spur not reaching beyond SC' (a similar spur 

 found in P. iphitas, doUcaon, etc.). 



Underside. — The pale postdiscal band situated in the brown-black distal border 



narrower than in the Central American subsi)ecies. Hindwing : submarginal 



Innules R- — M' rather larger. 



Clavish streaks of abdomen on the whole narrower than in P. o. orabilis. 



Hob. West Colombia. 



In the Tring Museum S c? c? from R. Dagua (W. F. H. Rosenberg). 



A long series in coll. Charles Oberthiir from Juntas, R. Dagua. 



10(5. Papilio salvini Bates (1804). 



Papilin salvini Bates, Ent. Mn. Mag. i. p. 4. n. 8 (1864) (Guatemala) ; Felder, Verli. Zoo/. DnI. Gcs. 



Wieii xiv. p. 301. n. 174 (1864) (cit. falsa) ; Hew., Exol. Bull. iii. Pap. t. 8. fig. 23 (1805) ; 



Boisd., C'oiisiiJ. Lep. Giialfm. p. 5 (1870) (Yucatan; Costa Rica); Kirby, Cat. Dinrn. Lc/i. 



p. 555. n. 244 (1871) ; Oberth., El. irEnl. iv. p. 67. n. 183 (1880) (Guatemala ; " Mexico") ; 



Godm. & Salv., Biol. Cenlr. Amer., lihop. ii. p. 217. t. 68. fig. 3. S, 4- genit. (1890) (Yucatiiu ; 



Guatemala ; Brit. Honduras) ; Haase, Vnlersuch. Mimicry i. p. 85 (1893) (near lellerophuii, 



errore). 

 Papilio eacus Hewitson, I.e. (Boisd. MS.). 



In appearance reminding one of P. bellerophoii, of which sahini has 

 generally been considered a near ally ; but the species is in point of fact a relative 

 of P. orabilis and callias. 



cJ. Body as in P. callias and P. dolicaon. Antenna tawny. Cell of forewing 

 long, as in P. columbus Kollar (1850, non Hewitson 1851) and orabilis; the same 

 kind of jiattfrn, but the black coll-biir narrow, not extending beyond cell, at right 



