( 460 ) 



The female, wliicli is very rare, is much larger than the male. 

 The name of delesserli has the priority of date of one year. 



Hub. Malay Peninsula (19 t?); Sumatra (4 <3); Java; Natuna Islands (1 J); 

 Borneo (14 cj, 3 ?); Palawan (3 <?). 



b. Abdomen with five white lines, two on each side, and one in the middle of 

 the underside. Males with the scent-organ less developed than in F. niacareus, etc.; 

 abdominal fold short, hairs at its margin also short ; no distinct cottony scent-organ 

 within the fold. 



206. Papilio megarus Westw. [c?,?]. 



Papilla megarus Westwood, Arc. Ent. 11. p. 98. t. 72. f. 2 (<?) (18i5) (Assam) ; Doubl. Westw. & 

 Hew., Gm. Diurn. Lep. I. p. 20. n. 256 (1846) ; Gray, Cat. Lep. his. li. M. I. p. 71. n. .^26 

 (1852) (Sylhet) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Ins. Mut. E. I. C. I. p. 90. n. 18.S (1857) (Sylhet) ; 

 Feld., Verh. z. h. Ges. Wim p. 308. n. 266 (1864) ; Moore, P. Z. S. p. 672 (1867) (Sylhet) ; id., 

 I.e. p. 697 (;i878) (Hainan ; ead. spec. ?) : id., I.e. p. 840 (1878) (Hatsiega) ; Staudiiig. t^- Schatz, 

 Exot. Schmett. I. p. 6 (1884) ; Dist., Rhop. Ma!, p. 468. t. 42. t.0{^) (1886) (Pefak) ; Holland, 

 Tr. Anm: Ent. Soc. XIV. p. 122. n. 72 (1887) (Hainan) ; Elwes, Ti: Eut. Soc. Luml. p. 430. 

 n. 419 (1888) (Sikkim?); Haase, Unlers. iib. .Mhn. p. 37(1893): Oberth., i,Y (/'&((. XVII. 

 p. 5 (1893) (Tonkin). 



Papilio (I'artinticopsi.t) megarus, Elwes & KiceT., Journ. .is. Soc. Bimj. p. 433. n. 124 (1881)) 

 (Tavoy & Siam) : Nici^v., Gazetteer of Sikhim p. 173. n. 487 (1894) (occurrence in Sikkim 

 doubtful). 



Paranlicopsis megarus, Swinhoe, 'I'r. Ent. Sue. LonJ. p. 315. n. 411 (I8'.i:i) (Kliasia Hills). 



I have to divide this species into two subspecies : — 



(rt) : P. inegarus Westw. from Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; .Malacca ; Tonkin ; 



Hainan ; 

 (')) : P. megarus flexirnactda m. from Banguey Lsland. 



(«): P. megarus Westw., forma typ. [cJ,?]. 



TUe fciiialf, which was hillifrlo unknown, is similar to the male; in my .single 

 cxiunple of that sex, the spots in the cell of the forewings are merged together to 

 obliijue streaks as in P. riiacareus Godart; the discal white markings of the same 

 wings are broader than in the vude ; in these characters the /t'?Ha/e resembles very 

 much an alierrant mule in my coUectiou ticketed " Sikkim"; this locality is probably 

 ei roneous. 



Hub. Assam (Khasia Hills : 12 (?) ; Sikkim (doubtful) ; Burma ; Shan States 

 (3 (J); Tenasserim (1 ?); Perak ; Tonkin; Hainan; Borneo (1 cJ). 



The Bornean specimen (Kudat ; A. Everett leg. yhirch 1892) in my collection 

 stands intermediate between this and the next subspecies. Specimens from I'erak, 

 Tonkin, and Hainan I have not seen. 



(h): P. meganis fleximacula subsp. nov. [c?,?]. 

 . Differs from P. megai'iis iu the following points:- — 

 The spots in the cell to the forewings are larger, and shaped almost as in slraiocles 

 Feld. ; a line runs, behind the subcosta, from near the apex of the cell halfway 

 to the base, where it turns round and runs obliquely towards the median nervure, 

 ending on a level with the uijjier median brauch ; within the space circumscribed by 

 this anguliform line, which is longer and thinner than in slratocles, there is a white 

 streak as in slraiocles, which is, in the ? , joined to the line. The two discal spots 

 standing separate in 'megarus between the first and second median nervnles are 

 merged together to a long streak. The three anterior submarginal spots are smaller 

 than in megarus. 



