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impossible to make out with certainty what P. orestes Fabr. really was, I cannot 

 follow Gray and others in applying the name oi cn-estes to our present Papilio, though 

 that name is older than Esper's name of nomitis. 



P. iiomius Esp. is very closely allied to P. aristeus Cram., with which it flies 

 together in Burma and Tonkin. The differences are indeed insignificant. The two 

 lower median nervules to the hindwings are proportionally longer than in any 

 aristeus-form ; the hindwings are therefore more produced in the anal region; in 

 the scaling of the upperside of the forewings nomnts comes nearest to P. aristeus 

 pai-mcdus Gray from Queensland, not to P. ainsteus hervwcrates Feld. or anticrates 

 Doubl., the upper scales being much shorter and broader than in the two latter 

 insects. 



I keep (his Papilio as a separate sjiecies, as I do not yet know of any inter- 

 mediate forms between it and P. arisleus Cram. ; but they may at any time 

 turn up. 



The spots of the submarginal white band on the forewings are more or less 

 rounded, but sometimes they become almost as linear as they are in P. aristeus 

 Cram. 



I distinguish two feebly different geograi)hical races : — • 



(a) : P. ncnnius Esp. from Ceylon, South India, Central Provinces, Bengal, and 



southern (lower) parts of Sikkini ; 

 (6) : P. nomiics atuinhoei Moore from Hainan, Tonkin, Burma, and Tenasserim. 



The black bands vary slightly in breadth in both subspecies. 



('(): P. nomius Esp., forma typ. [J, ?]• 



In a specimen from the Felder collection labelled Bengal, Stoliczka, the white 

 colour of the wings is rather more expanded than in other individuals, and the 

 median band of the hindwings above is interrupted in the middle. 



The anal region of the black border of the hindwings above is much overpowdered 

 with white scales. The submarginal spots to the forewings are all rounded, except 

 the last and the last but oue, which are often more elongate. 



Hab. Ceylon (2 c?) ; South India (3 J); Central Provinces (2 ?); Bengal (4 6); 

 Sikkim (2 ?). 



(b) : P. nomius swinhoei .Moore. 



Papilio twinhoei Moore, P. Z. S. p. G97 (1878) (Hainan). 



Papilio (P<ilht/s(i) nomius, Elwes & Nici5v., Joum. As. Soc. Beiig. p. 437. n. 115 (1886) (Ponsekai ; 



very abundant). 

 Piipilio nvmixts, Eimer, Arlhiltl. Sclimrtt. p. 16+ (pp-)- f- Q (1889); Nict'v., Juunt. Bombay 



X. JJ. Svc. p. 387. n. 87 (18'JO) (Chin-Lushai) ; Watson, ibid. p. 54 (1891) (Chin-Lushai) ; 



UoUand, Ti: Amer. Ent. Soc. Loud. XIV. p. 12:!. n. 80 (1887) (Hainan) : Obcrth., El. dEnt. 



XVn. p. i (1893) (Tonkin). 



The spots of the submarginal band to the forewings are less rounded than in 

 typical nomius Esp. ; sometimes they are nearly as linear as in P. artiiteus Cram. 

 The hindwings are somewhat shorter, their black border is broadei-, and (aliove) in 

 the caudal region not or feebly overijowdered with white scales; the white spot 

 between the upper median branches stands mostly rivther widely separate from the 

 discal white band; below, the hindwings e.xhibit a short black line uijonthe praecostal 

 veinlet which is absent from the specimens from the western [larts of the range of 

 nomius. 



Hob. Hainan (1 ^) ; Tonkin; Burma (I. t d); Tenasserim. 



