( 40,5 ) 



(d'-) : ab. gen. aest. latteri Aust. 



Piqiilhi ab. laltn-i Austant, Petit. Nouv. Kid. II. p. 293 (1871I)- 



Papilio podaUrliis var. /ulteri, Obertbiir, El. d'Eid. IV. p. i'>4. sub n. 1G3 (1879) : Buhl, Grnssschm. 



p. so! 693 (189:2-95). 

 PiipiUn fehthameli var. l/Uteri, Baker, Eiit. Mo. Mug. XXII. p. 250 (lyHH), 

 PiipH/o feisthameli latteri, Eimer, I.e. p. 72. t. 1. f. 4 (1889). 



Front of the head witli .sliort hairs; abdomen white for the most ]jart, dorsal 

 black line narrow. Not always larger than the spring brood of feislhtiaclL 

 Hab. Pyrenees, f^pain, Portugal, North Africa [7 J, 7 ? J. 



ic): P. podalirius virg'atus 15utl. [c?,?]. 



Piqiitii, virgiiliiH Butler, P. Z.S. p. 430. t. 2.'). f. 1 (1805) (Dama-scus). 



Papilii)jmiliilirius vit-gatiis, Eimer, I.e. p. 74 (1889). 



Papiliii jiiidiilirius var. virgatus, Ruhl, Grr}ss.^chmett. p. 80 (1892). 



Differs from F . podalirius feisthaineli, to which it comes nearest, chiefly in the 

 narrower hindwings, the smaller orange mark in front of the anal ocellus, and in 

 the thin and abbreviated black bands on the upperside of the hindwings. 



As the abdomen is black on the upperside, I treat virgatus as belonging to a 

 spring brood, though I have no evidence that the few specimens I have seen were 

 taken in the spring. 



The summer brood is larger, and corresponds in characters with the second brood 

 oifeisthameli : — 



(«-) : ab. gen. ae.st. smymetisis Eimer. 

 Piipilin pnihtlirinH smyriioixiH Eimer, I.e. p. 94. f. M (1889) (Smyi-na). 



Hairs of the front of the head short. Black band on the upperside of the 

 forewings, situated at the end of the cell, not reaching the submedian vein. 

 Abdomen more extended white, with the dorsal black line abbreviated. 



From ab. latteri Aust. it can be distinguished by the narrowness of the three 

 black bands on the upperside of the hindwings; of these bands the two discal ones 

 are obsolete posteriorly, and that along abdominal margin is almost hairlike. 



Hab. Asia Minor. 



('/) : P. podalirius podalirinus Oberth. [J]. 



PuiiiVn pnditVrimis Oberthur, Et d'Eiit. XIII. p. 37. t. 9. f. 99 (1890) (Tse-ku). 

 Fi(2>illo jmkdirius, Leech, Butt, from Cliim, etc. p. 519 (1893) (Ta-tsien-lu). 



"Differs from the type in having all the transver.se black streaks or bands on 

 primaries wider and more continuous, and the central area of these wings suffused 

 with dusky; on the secondaries there is a bright reddish band between the central 

 black streaks, and the lunule above the anal spot is of the same colour" (Leech, I.e.). 



Hab. ^\'estern China; very rare; i)roliably more abundant in Thibet iiroper. 



Note. — Papilio ajax L. and 1'. marccllus Roisd. (= P. aja.e F-sp.) are erroneously 

 recorded by several authors as inhabiting Europe : i-f. Iwper, Eiir. i^ichm. I. Co)lt. p. 1 

 t. 51. cont. 1 (irso); hucas, L,p d'Kwr. p. 23. t. 14. f. 2. (184.-3); Dutreux, Slett. E. 

 Zeil. p. 142 (1854). 



