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" Magnitudo Pap. ApoUinis. Alae omnes supra nigricantea maculM 

 nu7nerosis hUeo-virescenlibiui, qiuiricm cmjjori jrrojnores magis 

 Imigitudinales ad ductum coijMria. Subtus omnes stddncarnatae, 

 maculw rariwihxis, min<yrib\is, virescentibus, quarum una alterave 

 in alia posticis sidtoceUata centra nigro. Similis Agamemnoni." 



The wings being maculated with green fits to several Papilios ; but the under- 

 side being subincarnate, and having the spots scarcer and smaller, certainly applies 

 to a form of P. aganienmon and to no other Indo-Auslralian species, and so does 

 macula snbocellata. centra nigra on the underside of the hindwings. In Syst. Xat. 

 ed. xii. p. 751 Liinu' mentions the form of the hindwings. 



" .Egi.stus. 48. P.E. alls dentatis fu.scis virescente maculatis ; subtus subin- 

 carnatis maculis virescentibus rarioribus. Amoen. acad. G p. 401. 

 91. 49. 



" Habitat in China. 



" Similis P. Agamemnoni." 



It may have been the character " alis dentatis " which has induced Cramer to 

 identify his aegistus with Linne's species ; but there occur also tailless 7'. agamemnon 

 which show the wings " dentate." The basal markings on the wings which are magis 

 longitiulinales ad ductxim corporis apjiiy much better to P. agamemnon than to 

 Cramer's aegislus (= macfarlanei Butl). Linnd does not mention the red spots 

 on the underside of the hindwings, which are present in P. agamemnon as well as 

 in P. macfarlanei, P. a^ryclea, etc. ; these red spots are sometimes very faint in 

 P. cujamemnon from India and !Malayasia. 



Now, as there is no character in Linn6's descriptions which speaks against our 

 identification, but several which directly point to P. agamemnon, I am satisfied that 

 Linne's P. aegisthiis is based on a tailless specimen of that species. But to which 

 race of P. agamemnon must the name of aegistkiis be united ? 



Since many of Linne's Indo-Australian species, with th<> " Hid). Asia," 

 or " China," or " Ind. or," came from Amboina— [Linnd received very many of his 

 species from Holland, and that accounts for his species being mostly Amboina and 

 Surinam forms]— I first thought that P. aegisthtis might be the same as Felder's 

 P. plisthenes, of which the type-specimen is of the size of Parnassius apollo 

 (" Magnitude P. ApoUinis "). Small specimens occur, however, occasionally also 

 in India and Malayasia ; tailless ;exam pies are also found in the Indo-!Malayan region ; 

 and considering that in Linne's specimen the red spots on the underside of the 

 hindwings were probably obliterated, a character which is often met with in the 

 typical race of agamemnon, there is no reasoa to doubt the patria "Cliina" of 

 Linne's aegisthus; and I must, therefore, restrict the name of aegisthus to the 

 tailless males of the typical race of P. agamemnon L., to which specimens Oberthlir 

 gave the name of anoura. 



Hah. China (2 (?) ; Hainan ; Tonkin ; I'nuina ; North India (10 <f , 9 ? ) ; North- 

 West India (1 ?); West and .South India; Ceylon (1 6, 1 ?); Tenasserim (1 cJ); 

 :\lalacca (11 J); Sumatra (4 (?) ; Nias (5 (?, 2 ?) ; Java (7 (?, 3 ?); Natuna Islands 

 (2 (?, 1 ?); Borneo (15 J, 3 ?); Balabac (1 (?); Palawan (2 (J, 1 9); Philippines 



Orza, Lep. .lap. p. 10 n. 5. 1869, records this species from (he warm parts ol lue 

 .lapanese empire. 



