450 • [December 



Iliades Me>nnon Hiibn., Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 89. (1816). 



Pap. Arbates. Zinken Sommer. Nova Acta Acad. Nat. Cur. XV. p. 151. (IS.'Sl). 



Male. — Wings black ; upper surface with a greenish reflection ; an- 

 terior wings with long grayish striae, the posterior wings with greenish ; 

 the upper wings have a triangular red or ochreous spot at the base on 

 the under side, and there are likewise five small red marks on the same 

 part of the inferior wings; the latter are deep black anteriorly and dark 

 cinereous behind ; the cinereous portions containing two rows of deep 

 black rounded spots, that next the angle encircled with yellow. Under 

 surface of fore wings marked with whitish-gray rays. Body black, 

 dusted sparsely with blue and golden green atoms. Expanse 5.25 inches. 



Hab. — Java, (Coll. Brit. Mus. and E. I. Co.) 

 Philippines, (In my collection.) 



Var. a. %. Pap. Androgeos. Cram. I. t. 91. f. A. B. (1775). 



Boisd., Sp. Gen. I. p. 193. n. 6. (IS.'je). 



E. Doubled., Cat. Brit. Mus. pt. 1. p. 2. (1844). 



Diurnal Lepidopt., I. p. 10. n. 30. (1846). 



G. E. Gray, Pap. Memnon, var. a. Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus. 



Pt. I. p. 13. n. 47. (1852). 

 Nat. Library, XXXI. Duncan, p. 98. (1852). 

 G. R. Gray, List. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. I. p. 14. (1856). 

 Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. Co.. var. a. p. 99. n. 202. (1857). 

 Pap. Memnon. Esper, Ausl. Schmett. t. 8. f. 1. (1801). 

 niade.'i Mestor. Hubn., Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 89. (1816). 

 "This variety of the ordinary male differs from it, in having the 

 black spots of the first row on the posterior wings, preceded by bluish 

 lunules, and the two inner spots of each row, surrounded by reddish 

 violet." — Boisd. 



In my specimens, the reddish violet extends to three spots on the 

 marginal row, and only partly covers those of the internal. Expanse 

 5.75 inches. 



Hub. — Philippines, China, (In my collection.) 

 China, (Coll. Boisd.) 

 Pinang and Darjeeling, (Coll. E. I Co.) 



Borneo, Northern India, China, (Coll. Brit. Mus.) • 



The variations of the female are much more numerous than those of 

 the male, and more interesting, inasmuch as they have changed so 

 greatly as to scarcely retain a vestige of their normal condition ; not 

 only in color, but in outline also do they differ. 



