( -118 ) 



Westw. this line forms a kind of angle. In all the other characters P. stratiotes Grose 

 Smith comes nearest to P. agetes, and is very difierent from P. antiphates, to which 

 Professor Eimer links it. P. stratiotes and agetes form a separate group, though close 

 to the aniiphate,i-gvou\^ ; Professor Eimer, misled by a superficial resemblance in the 

 pattern of the wings, placed P. agetes, together with a number of American species, 

 &nd podalirius, alebimi, glycerion, etc., into his podaZmw8-group, with which, how- 

 ever, agetes has nothing to do. 



JtJab. Kina Balu, North Borneo (8 cJ). 



XXX 11 1. .\RISTEUS-GROUP. 



Differs fi-om the antiphates-gYOup in the white bands of the wings being 

 normally scaled, and in the males having a cottony scent-organ, as in the agetes- 

 group. 



177. Papilio aristeus Cram. [<?, ?]. 



Papilio £5»fs Arhivus arhlm.t Cramer, r„j>. K.,:. IV. p. CO. t. 318. f. E. F (1782) (Amboina) ; 



Jablonsky & Herbst, yaturs. Schmett. III. p. 150. t. 44. f. 3. 4 (1884). 

 Iphiclides arisleus, Hiibntr, Vo". tiet. Schm. p. 82. n. 837 (1816). 

 Papilio arislaeus, Godart, Eiic. Mth. IX. p. 51. n. 76 (1819) (Amboina : "Java" loc. err.) ; Boisd., 



Spec. Gin. p. 252. n. 76 (1836) (Amboina ; " Celebes " loc. err.) ; Doubl. Westw. <t Hew., Gen. 



Dim-u. Lep. I. p. 14. n. 118 (1846) ; Gray, Cat. Lep. Ins. B. il. I. p. 29. n. 138 (1852) ; 



Yollenh., TijiUchr. r. Enl. III. p. 77. n. 59 (1860) (Amboina) : Feld., Verh. z. h. Ge.i. WIen p. 302. 



n. 191. >.« p. 346. n. 99 (1864) ; Wall, Tr. Linn. Soc. Lnnd. XXV. p. 64. n. 104 (1865) (Ceram ; 



Batjan); Oberth., Et. rTEnl. IV. p. 63. n. 160 (1879) (Ceram; Amboina); Pagenstech., 



Jahrb. Xass. Ver. Nol. p. 203 (1884) ; Standing., Iris II. p. 15 (1889) ; Eimer, Arlbilil. Schmelt. 



p. 167. t. 3. f. 5 (1889) ; Ribbe, Iris U. p. 210. n. 10 (1890) (Ceram). 

 Papilio timocrates Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. I. p. 55. n. 42 (1865) (Halmahera). 



In typical P. aristeus Cram., as well as in the various local forms, the wings 

 vary somewhat in the amount of black; the palest races are anticrates from 

 Continental India and parraatus from Queensland and New Guinea. The dark 

 bands are almost of the same black colour on both sides of the wings in the 

 :SIoluccan race, i.e. in typical P. aristeus ; in the other three subspecies the bands 

 are, on the underside of the wings, of a more or less pale cinnamon colour. The 

 collar bears an ochreous siiot on each side in the two I'apuan races {aristeus and 

 parmatus). 



The four races of P. aristeus Cram, are distributed as follows:— 



(a) : P. aristeus Cram, occurs in the Moluccas ; 



(b) : P. aristeus pamudus Gray occurs in Queensland, New Guinea, .\ru, and 



Waigeu ; 

 (b) : P. aristeus anticrates Doubl. occurs in Northern India ; 

 ('/) : P. aristeus hermocrates Feld. occms in the fliilippine Islands, Palawan, 



Borneo, Sumatra, Malacca, Tenasserim, Burma, Tonkin, Timor, and 



Wetter. 

 In Celebes P. aristeus Cram, is replaced by a closely allied species, P. rhesus 

 Boisd., and in the Bismarck Archipelago by P. jMron Godm. >S: Salv. 



(«): P. aristeus Cram., forma typ. [<?]. 



Feraale not described. 



Is apparently rare. The Halmahera specimens are separated by Felder under 

 the name of P. timocrates, but I cannot find that they are really different from those 



