NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 219 



1 (J, 1 9 ? ex Felder coll. ; 1 cJ ? ; 1 cJ Turkestan ! ! (Loc. err.) ; 1 (J N. 

 Persia; 3 (J(J, 3 ?$ Poin-Shakub ; Elburz Mts., June— July 1907, 5-7,000 ft.; 

 1(J, 1 $ Krasnowodsk ! ! 



Hyperninestra helios maxima Gr.-Grsh. 



Hypermnestra hdins var. mnxima (Jrum-Grshmailo in Romanoff, Mem. Lipid, vol. iv. p. 141 (1890) 

 (Bokliara). 



6 (JcJ, 2 ?? ? ; 1 <J, 2 ?$ ? ex Felde rcoll. ; 1 <?, 1 $ Turkestan ; 1 o" Nama- 

 jan, 1884 ; 4 (J<J, 4 ?? Sefir-Kuh Afghanistan ; 1 cJ, 4 ??, Oasis of Tedshen, 

 Transcaspia, May 1903 (coll. Hauser) ; 2 <J<J, 2 ??, Imam-baba, Transcaspia 

 (W. Keshan tscliikoff) ; 4 <J(? West of Dinan Amu Darya (these are probably 

 larger and yellower specimens of helios helios). 



DOUARCHOIT nom. gen. nov. 



Stichel in Wytsman, "Genera Insectorum," fasc. 58, p. 47, and footnote 1 

 (1907), makes the extraordinary statement that as the genus Doritis had been 

 founded by Fabricius in 1807 on two species, apollo and mnemosyne, which two 

 years earlier had been placed in the genus Parnassius, and therefore was an 

 absolute synonym of Parnassius, it could not be used for apoUinus Herbst, the 

 name Archon Scudder must, as the only remaining synonym of Doritis Herbst 

 nee Fabricius, be employed. 



I say this is a most extraordinary statement in view of Stichel's own words. 

 He says in the footnote that the name Archon was first used by Hiibner in a 

 work " Systematisch Alphabetisches Verzeichniss zur Sammlnng europaischer 

 Schmetterlinge," 1822, p. 6, and tliis work is now binomial and therefore 

 Scudder's use of this name in 1875 must stand. This is not admissible, for 

 in the first place we accept Hiibner's genera in the "Verzeichniss Bekannter 

 Schmetterlinge " and above all Linnaeus' genera, and therefore I see no 

 difference in Hiibner's Verzeichniss name of Archon Heroicus Iphidides dolicaon 

 Cram, and Linnaeus' name Papilio Eques Achimis -pi-iamns Linn. Now on 

 p. 82 of the Verzeichniss, Hiibner describes Archon, and moreover states that it 

 = Eques of Linnaeus and Fabricius. This rules out Scudder's use altogether, 

 and apoUirius requires a new generic name. 



I have called it Dorarchon so as to combine the two names. There is only 

 a single species. i 



Dorarchon apollinns (Herbst). 

 Dorarchon apollinus apollinus (Herbst). 



Papilio apollinns Herfjst & Jablunsky, Naturs. Schmetl. vol, ix. |). 156. pi. 250 ff. 5-8 (1798) (Ourlac 

 Island). 



The larva is sooty black with red patches on the segments, in front of which 

 are four yellow spots. 



1 $ ? ; 4 ?$ ? ex Felder coll. ; 2 <JcJ, 3 ?? Asia Minor ; 1 cJ Taurus ; 1 $ 

 Crete ; 1 ? Malatia, ex coll. Felder ; I ? Aintab ; 1 (J, 2 ?? Smyrna ; 1 <J, 1 ? 

 Burnabad, Smyrna ; 1 S Cordelio, Smyrna, March— April 1905 (Dr. Martin) ; 

 1 cJ Magnesia, April 12, 1905 (Dr. Martin) ; 2 ?? Broussa, Asia Minor, April 

 1905 ; I (J Diarbekr (Kindermann), Felder coll. ; 3 larvae. 



