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sides of the liindwings, are in F. alebion proportionally shorter than in P. 

 tameiianus. 



Though I have seen a large number of specimens of P. tameiianus, and have 

 compared about twenty specimens of alebion, I have never met with intermediate 

 examples. The shape of the hindwings and the yellow anal mark are so conspicuously 

 different in alebion and tameiianus that there is at present no reason to unite these 

 Papilios into one species. 



Hah. Western China (13 S). 



XXXI. ANTIPHATES-GEOUP. 



Similar to the pi-eceding group, but the first discocellular vein of the forewings 

 only a little, or not, longer than the second. Light bands in the apical region of the 

 forewings with hairlike scales, exclusive of P. ornatus m. and dwciis De Haau. 

 Male with long hairs at the abdominal margin of the hindwings; these hairs are 

 concealed when the abdominal margin is folded in. 



170. Papilio antiphates Cram. [<?,¥, metam.]. 



Pupilio Equen Acltivns iiiilij>hates Cramer, Pup. Ex. I. p. 113. t. 72, f. a. b (1775) (China) ; Goeze, 

 Ent. Beytr. III. 1. p. 78. n. 30 (1779) ; Y3hv.,Ent.Syst. UI. 1. p. 24. n. 72 (1793) ("America" 

 he. err.). 



Papilio Egues Achivus aiilipathex, Jablonsky & Herbst, Naturs. Schmcll. III. p. 151. n. 98. t. 43. 

 f. 1. & 2 (1888). 



Ijihklides anliphatts, Hubner, Verz. beh. Schmeit. p. 82. n. 832 (1816). 



Papilio I'ompilius, Godart, Enc. Melh. IX. p. 49. n. 70 (1819) (/)./).). 



Papilio mttiphatea, Doubl. Westw. & Hew., Gen. Diiirii. Lep. I. p. 15. n. 125 (1846) {pp.) ; Gray, 

 Git. Lep. Im. B. il. I. p. 31. n. 147 (1852) {pp.) ; Feld., Verh. z. h. Ges. Wicii p. 302. n. 185 

 (1864) (pp.); Holland, Tr. Amer. Ent. Soc. XIV. p. 123. n. 81 (1887) (Hainan); Oberth., 

 Et. d'Eiil. XVU. p. 4 (1893) (Tonkin). 



Papilio pompllius Fabr. is a very doubtful fpecies ; Fabricius compares it with 

 P. sinon Cram, from Jamaica, and gives in Mant. Ins. as a synonym P. policenes 

 Cram, from Africa ; this points to P. nomius Esp. or to a form of P. aristeii^ Cram. 

 The description of P. ponipilius, however, applies best to P. antiphates Cram., or a 

 variety of it ; but there is no character mentioned in the description that can give us 

 a hint which special race of P. antiphates Fabricius had before him. The " hab. in 

 India" points to the Indian race, which Fabricius had, however, already described 

 under n. 65 as Papilio E. A. idcihiacles ; if P. jjompilivs really came from India, it 

 nmst therefore be referred to P. ulcibiades as a mere individual aberration. Doubtful 

 as it is, it will be best to unite P. pompiliii^ to the Indian race. 



I can distinguish four local races of P. antiphates Cram. : — 



(a) : P. antiphates Cram, from Eastern China ; 



(/j) : P. antiphates alcibiades Fabr. from Continental India, Ceylon, Malay 



Peninsula, Sumatra, Nias, Java, Sambawa, Billiton, Natuna Islands, 



Bonieo, Banguey ; 



(c) : P. antiphates decolor Standing, from Palawan, Mindanao, ]5auguey ; 



(d) : P. antiphates eyjili rates VcW. from the Philippines. 



(a); P, antiphates Cram., forma typ. [J,?]- 

 I have several examples from South-East China which agree very well with 

 Cramer's figure, except in the black marginal band lo the forewings, which only in 



