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(/'): P. polytes borealis Feld. [(?,?]. 



(J. Papilio Eques Trojanus pammon, Cramer (nee Linnd, 1758), Pap. Ex. II. p. (JO. t. 141. f. ii 



(1779) {haec subspec. ?) ; Jablonsky, Xatiirs. Schm. II. p. 276. n. 53. t. 19. f. 4 (1784). 

 ?". Papitio Eques Trojanus poli/ks, Cramer, I.e. p. 129. t. 265. f. a. b (1782) (China : " i" 



ex err.). 

 ?"'. Pupilio Eques Trojamts pammon, StoU, in Cramer's Pap. Exot. Supi>l. p. 147 t 33 f 1 



l.\ (1791) (China). 

 (J ?. Ptipiliu jHimmon, Doubl. Westw. & Hew., Gen. Diurn. Lep. I. p. 11. n. 62 (18-52) (yJ./*.) : 



WaU. & Moore, P. Z. S. p. 356 (1866) (Formosa) ; Oberth.. Et. d'Ent. IV. p. 47. n. 79 (1879) 



(p.p.) ; Elwes, P. Z. S. p. 873 (1881) (p.p.) : Oberth.. El. iVEnt. XI. p. 14 (1886) (Ta-tsien-lu). 

 tJ ? . Paplliu polyles var. borealis Felder, Wien. Enl. Mini. VI. p. 22. n. 2 ((^, ? ) (1861) (Ning-po) : 



Butler, P. Z. S. p. 814 n. 37 (1877) (Formosa) ; Leech, Tr. Ent. Soc. Land. p. 65 (l«89)°(Kiu- 



Kiang). 

 (J ?. Pujiilio polytes, Leech, Butt, from Cliiua, etc. p. 552 (1893) (China : Loo Choo Is.). 

 ^?. Paiiillo borealis, Seitz, Soe. Ent. X. p. 41 (1895) [China, excl. of the South ; Okinawa; 



Nagasaki ; ''Yokohama (Pryer) " ex err.]. 



(S. Differ.s from P. poJytes in the spots of tlie median band of the hindwings 

 being much smaller, also often reduced in number; the submarginal spots of the 

 hindwings appear often above, and are sometime.s of a reddish colour. 



(6") : ab. thibetanus Oberth. 

 Papilio pammon var. thibetwms Oberthiir, Et. d'Ent. XIII. p. 14 (1886) (Chapa). 



Spots of the median band of the hindwings partly obliterated. 



I have this aberration, which is the extreme form of horealiH, from China and the 

 Loo Choo Islands ; in one Chinese specimen there are only two white markings left on 

 the underside. 



?. Tails mostly broader than in typical polytes. Dimorphic; third female 

 wanting. 



(cZ'j: ?-f. mundane mihi.* 



Differs from P. polytes ?-f. cyrns Fabr. in the same way as the males of bm-ealis 

 do from those of polytes. 



Very rare in Western China, more abundant in the Loo Choo Islands. 



(e'): ?-f. borealis FeU., I.e. 



Mostly indistinguishable from /'. polytes ?-f. polytes L. and ab. stickius ; the 

 dominant form corresponds with ab. stickius; the number of white spots of the 

 hindwings is reduced; the sjiots are widely separated; the intracellular .spot is never 

 so large as it usually is in ?-f. polytes. 



In several of my sjiecimens the median row of white sjiots of this/('»,rt?e-form, as 

 well as of ^-f. polytes, is connected with the costal margin by means of some very 

 faint additional markings of a huffish brown colour, thus recalling the complete row 

 of spots in the female maris colore. 



Hub. China (except the .southern parts) (18 cJ, 19 ?); Kiu-Shiu; Loo Choo 

 Islands (23 J, 14 ?); Formosa (2 cJ, 1 ?); Hainan (1 c?). 



The specimens from the Loo Choo Islands have the tails sometimes rather short 

 and even non-siiatulato, and come very close to certain specimens of P. polytes L. 

 from the Xatuna Islands, forming a transition to P. pjolyles theseus Cram. 



• For the sake of conformity all ihefemaJe-ioTrus of the rarious subspecies of 1'. polutes L. arc trcitcil 

 under names of their own. 



