(433 ) 



Uppersids : median band narrow on both wings, the spot between the lower 

 median nervules of the forewings about half as long again as broad (in axion Feld. 

 about twice as long as broad) ; median nervure on the hindwings black within the 

 band; short subbasal white streak obsolete, only shining through from the underside- 

 Specimens from the northern parts of Oylon have the median band broader, and 

 are distinguishable from small examples of the Indian race only by the form of the 

 hindwings and by the short subbasal streak to the hindwings being obsolete above. 



Papilio B(vrb(i,riis jasoii L. is a doubtful species. The characters which Linne 

 mentions in the description (I.e.) partly point directly against the present Papilio, 

 or any other race of P. eurypylus, as well as against any of the allied green Papilios. 

 Aurivillius {I.e.) thinks it probable that Papilio jnson L. is the same as Metamorpha 

 stelenes (L.). Doubtful as P.jasmi L. ever will remain, I prefer to treat it as a query 

 synonym of Papilio eurypylus jason Esp. 



Esper's Papilio Eqiifs Achivus jason, which has been renamed by Felder as 

 P. doson, applies best to the Ceylonese race of P. eurypylus. The narrow median 

 band which is interrupted at all the veins, and the absence of the costal, subbasal, white 

 streak from the upperside of the hinder wings, are characters which are not met with 

 in the mainland race ; the hindwings are too broad in Esper's figure, but the upper 

 median nervule being produced into a tooth, and the broad marginal sinus in front of 

 the tooth, jioint again to the Ceylonese race. On the underside the subbasal white 

 streak is connected with the median band along the costal margin in Esper's figure ; 

 I have not seen examples which have this character, except some in which the costal 

 margin is abraded and thus appears to be white. 



The P. telephus Feld (= Zetides doson, Moore) is differentiated by Felder (I.e.) 

 from P. doson Feld. (syn. of P. jason Esp.) by the longer wings and by the short 

 subbasal streak of the hindwings not being connected with the median band along 

 the costal margin ; now the form of the wings of Esper's figure points more to the 

 Ceylonese than to the Indian race, and the second character of Esper's figure is, in 

 my opinion, erroneous ; hence I feel myself justified to consider the narrow-banded 

 P. telephus PVld. as the typical P. jason Esp. 



Ifab. Ceylon (typical form chiefiy in the Eastern Province) (8 J) ; S. India. 



(/') : P. eurypylus axion Feld. [<?,?]. 



Zetides CMrypi/hix, Hiibner (nee Linne, 1758), &tmml. Ex. S,-hm. II. t. li)7. f. 1. '2 (lSOli-24) ; 



Swinh., Tr. E„l. Soc. Lnml. p. 314. n. SlKi (1893) (Khasia Hills), 

 (?) Papilio biillii/rlex, Lucas (iirc Zinken, 1831), Lep. Ex. t. 5. f. 2 (1835). 

 Papilio eMi-i/jii/lit.'^, Doubl. Westw. & Hew., Ge.ii. Diurii. Le.p. I. p. 14. n. 113 (18411) (/)./'.) ; Oray, 



Cat. Lrji. /„s. B. .1/. I. p. 28. n. 133 (18.V2) (/;./;.) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cal. Lr/i. [nx. .Uiih. E. J. C. 



L p. 113. n. 227 (1857) ; Salv. & Godm., /'. Z. S. p. lUl (1878) (Uilliton I.): Wood-Mas., 



.roitriL .!». Son. Bemj. p. 238. n. 70 (1880) (Andaman. Is.) ; Wood-Mas. & Nicrv., Itiiil. p. 253. 



n. 98 (1881) (Andaman Ls.) ; Elwes, Tr. Knt. Soc. Lnitd. p. 435. n. 431 (1888) (Sikkim, common 



in the low valleys from April to October) ; Watson, .Jourii. Bomliaij N. II. Soc. p. 53 (18!U) 



(Chin-Lushai) ; Robbe, .\nii. Soc. Eiil. Ilrlij. p. 12r). n. 17 (1892) (Uarjeeling) ; Obertli., Et. 



d'Eiil. XVII. p. 4 (1893) (Tonkin). 

 Papilio axion Felder, Verh. ~. I,. Gen. Wien p. 305. n. 224. & p. 350. n. 128 (I8i;4) (iiom. iiov. loco 



euryp>jlm Hiibn.) ; Moore, P. Z. S. p. 697 (1878) (Hainan). 

 Papilio jaxoii, Wallace, Tr. Linii. Soc. Loud. XXV. p. (Ul. n. 115 (18l!5) (Malacca; Sumatra; 



Borneo); Moore, P. Z. S. p. 757(1805); Piepers, Tijdschr. r. Eat. p. 155. n. 09 (1876); 



Honrath, Berl. E. Zeil. X.\.VIII. p. 39G(1884) : Standing.* Schatz, E.tot.Sclim. I. p. 9 (1884) 



(p.p.) ; Piepers,! '///./.sr/ir. 1'. Eal.p. 347. t. 8. f. l-3(/.) (1888) (Java) ; .Snellen, .Viddcn-Sumatra. 



II. p. 25. n. 3 (1892) (Sumatra). 



