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The figure of Petiver (I.e.) Liniie erroneously refeired to P. niemnmi. Kabricius 

 described a» P. li/,s<iMder an American insect (P. hd.rrisiiimw Swains, or an allied 

 form), and in his E)i.t. Syst. (1793) he adds to the original diagnosis the description 

 of an insect which must be the present Papilio. As the names of 'iite'itviiwii- L. and 

 li/s<tiider P^abr. must be applied to those other insects, the Pliilippiue Papilio has to 

 >tand as P. ruinansovius Eschsch., which has the priority of date over Jllibner's 

 name oi emalthion, that most authors have incorrectly adopted. 



Both se.xes are tailless, as in P. ckiphontes Feld., with which it lias been 

 confounded by Semper (I.e. p. 280). Semper .says that this species, which he records 

 from the PliiliiJpine, Sulu, and Siao Islands, is represented on the Sangir Islands by 

 P. deiphmUes Feld., which according to Semper differs in the female sex from 

 P. 'niytvmzovius by the absence of the red Imsal patch from the upperside of the 

 forewings. W. Doherty, however, procured a good series of both sexes on Sangir and 

 Talaut (north of Celebes) which undoul:itedly belong to P. nimamov-iiis: the feninles 

 have a red basal spot above on the forewings, though this spot is indicated only by 

 some red scales in one specimen, and is never so large as in P. rimicmzovius. This 

 basal mark is, however, of no specific value at all ; my specimens of P. deiphontes, 

 S and ? , have all a trace of this spot ; it is in every specimen repi'esented at least 

 bv some red scales, which are mostly covered by black ones ; in the Sangir specimens 

 of P. ru.inanzovius this spot is sometimes absent, sometimes present ; in the 

 Philijipine specimens it is apparently always present. The chief distinguishing 

 characters of P. rimuimovias are as follows : — 



Forewings conspicuously narrower and longer, more sickle-shaped than in 

 P. deiphontes ; hindwings also longer. 



Hindwings of the male with the bluish grey outer region liroader than in any of 

 the allied species, forming a broad band which interiorly is convex from between the 

 upper discoidal nervule to the anal angle ; anal angle witli an incomplete scarlet ring. 



Hindwings of the feviale above with two or more marginal scarlet spots, besides 

 the more or less ring-shaped anal mark ; these spots do not touch the margin, except 

 the two pcsterior ones situated between the median nervules ; below, all these spots 

 are truly marginal, but they are not so broad at the margin itself as in P. deiphontes. 

 In the latter species the hindwings have a complete scries of truly marginal spots. 



c?. None of my specimens have any red scales at the base of the forewings above ; 

 the anal red, incomplete, ring of the hindwings above is mostly represented by two 

 lunate spots. Below, the amount of scarlet at the base of the wings and the size of 

 the scai-let spots in the marginal region of the hindwings are very variable ; mostly 

 there is a discal spot between the lower median nervules, which is often connected 

 with the corresponding marginal spot by means of a thin line along the nervules; 

 sometimes the anal red mark or the discal spot is extended towards the liase, so as to 

 join the basal scarlet patches, as in certain females. 



? . Dimorphic in colour. 



(a'): ?-f. riinumzoviua Eschsch., I.e. ; fig. : Esclischoltz, I.e. 



Hindwings with a white discal patch which is very variable. Below, the hind- 

 wings exhibit, as in most specimens of P. deiphontes, deipylus, and deipkobus. 

 anteriorly some discal spots which are partly joined to the marginal spots. One of 

 my Sangir specimens has a complete series of marginal spots to the hindwings above. 



