( ^n ) 



XXXn. A(iETE8-GR0UP. 



Agrees with the preceding grouji, but the males ha\'e a rather large cottony 

 scent-organ within the abdominal fold. 



175. Papilio ag'etes Westw. [J]. 



rnpUhi ageles Westwood, .1/v. K„t. II. p. 2.1 t. 55. f. 1. 2 (1843) (Ind. or., Sylhet ?) ; Doubl. 



Westw. & Hew., Gen. Diiirn. Lep. I. p. 15. n. 123 (184G) ; Gray, Gd. Lep. Im. B. .)/. I. p. 31. 



n. 145 (1852); Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Im. J/«s. E. I. C. I. p. IIG. n. 233 (18.57) (Darjeeling); 



Feld., Verb. z. h. Ge.s. Wifii p. 302. n. 184. & p. .346. n. 04 (18C4) ; Oberth., El. (VEnl.lY.)>. 67. 



n. 185 (1879) (Sylhet) ; Standing. & Schatz, Emt. Schmelt. p. 9 (1884) ; Distant, Jihop. .Mat. 



p. 469. D. 31. t. 42. f. 8 (1886) (Perak) ; Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lfiml. p. 433. n. 426 (1888) 



(Sikkim; Sivoke); Eimer, Arlhihl. Schmrtt. p. 53. 113. t. 1. f. 8 (1889) ; Haase, Uiitei-K. ilb. 



Mim. p. 32 (1893) ; Oberth., El. cfEnl. XVII. p. 5 (1893) (Tonkin). 

 Piij)iliu (^Piilhi/sii) iKjcles, Elwes & Nice'v., Journ. Ah. Snr. Brmj. p. 437. n. 144 (1880) (Ponsekai). 

 I'lUhi/sa agftes, Swinhoe, Tr. Eiil. Sue. Loml. p. 313. u. 391 (1893) (Khasia Hills). 



Two local forms : — 



(«) : P. agetes Westw. [J]. 



cJ. This species is faii'lj con.stant. The length and breadth of the black bands 

 is slightly variable ; the two basal black bands on the forewings often reach the 

 inner margin of the wing ; the number of red linear spots in the black median band 

 on the underside of the hindwings is sometimes reduced. 



?. Undescribed ; unknown to me. 



Hab. Sikkim (lower hills : 8 (?) ; As.sam (5 (?) ; Shan States (7 S) ; :\Ialay 

 Peninsula ; Tonkin. 



(b) : P. agetes insularis Stauding. [c?]. 



PdpiVio agetes, Hagen {iiec Westwood, 1843), Iris VII. p. 27. n. 31 (1894) (Sumatra ; "nicht uuter 



3000 Fuss Meereshohe "). 

 Papilhi aijiles Webst. (.s»j !) var. in-suhiris Staudinger, Iris VII. p. 349 (1895) (Sumatra; Kina 



BaUi, N. Borneo). 



Differs from P. agetes Westw. in the following characters: the two basal black 

 bands on the upperside of the forewings are shorter, the first reaches the submedian 

 nervure, the second .stops at the median vein or is only a very little extended beyond 

 it: the fourth band, at the apex of the cell, is broader than in P. uejetes, more or less 

 triangular, and extended as far as the origin of the middle discoidal nervule ; the 

 submarginal and marginal bands are a little broader, and the light space between 

 them somewhat smaller, than in P. agetes. The anterior half of the cell to the fore- 

 wings has two layers of scales iu insularis, while in P. agetes the under scales are all, 

 or nearly all, obliterated. 



Huh. Kina Balu, British North Borneo (2 <S); Sumatra (1 S). 



In the scaling of the forewings and reduction of the basal black lands this local 

 form comes nearer to the following species (P. stratioies Grose Smith) than to 

 P. agetes Westw., with whicli it agrees in all the other characters. 



17(i. Papilio stratiotes Grose Smith [<?]. 



Pajiilio .<itratioles Gro.se Smith, Ami. .Mag. X. II. (5). XX. p. 433 (1887) (Kina Balu) ; Honmtli, 

 Bert. Ent. Zcit. XXXI. p. .349. t. C. f.' 3 (1888) ; Eimer, Artl/ild. Schmctl. p. 151. f. r (1889). 



The interior one of the two black lines on the underside of the hindwings is 

 straight and is in the .same position as in P. antiphates Cram., while in P. agetes 



