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SOME NOTES ON MY REVISION OF THE PAPILIOS OF 

 THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE, EXCLUSIVE OF AFRICA. 



By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. 



P. 188. To the .synonymy of T. ■pria'mus 'poseidon (Doubl.) add : — 



Oniithoptera arnmiia Felder, Wien. Ent. Mim. III. p. 3'Jl. n. .32 (1859) (Aru Is.). 

 Pap'tUo arruauus Felder, Verh. z. h. Ges. Wien. p 'J90. n. 14 (18G4) ; id., Rcise A'onim II. p. ?,. n. 1. 

 t. 1 (1865). 



P. 272. I have received a typical specimen of 7-". daemo'idus Ali)h. (Iris VII f. 

 \K 18(1, 1895), which proves to be the same as what I called fatuns ; the latter name 

 must sink as a synonym. P. daemonius Alph. is a distinct species, not a variety of 

 P. alcinous King ; and to this species, not to plidonius, most probably belongs 

 that Bhutan /e^urt^e which I alluded to on p. 272. The sexual organs of the 'inale of 

 P. daemonitts Alph. and fatuus m. are the same, except some slight differences in 

 the dentation of the harpes. 



P. 278. Jlr. F. W. Kirliy wrote to me about P. xanthus L., and informed me 

 that in the copies of Linne, Sijst. Nat. ed. xii., he had seen, there was no Papilio 

 xdiithus L. By fui'ther investigations I have found that the second volume of my 

 copy of that work, in which the name of the Papilio in question is written 

 xanthus, not xuthus, belongs to the reprint of the original edition (Vindobonae, 

 17(i7-70). In the copy of this reprint in the library of the British JIuseum, at 

 Bloomsliury, the name is, liowe\'er, spelt xiUhus, not xanthus. Most probably the first 

 copies of this ^'indobonae edition were discovered to contain many misprints, and it was 

 then revised. I mistook the second volume of my copy as belonging to the original 

 edition, as the first and third volumes belong to the latter; the second volume of the 

 Vindobonae edition has, neither in the British JIuseum's copy nor in my own, a title- 

 page. The name of xiUhiis has, therefore, to stand instead of xaidhiis. 



P. 364. As the few lines of manuscript I had written about P. velovis Hew. have, 

 by mistake, not been printed, I have to insert them here : — 



13 JA. Papilio veiovis Hew. [J, ?]. 



,^. I'apHiu nioi-is Hewitson, E.r. Butt. III. P.iii. t. 7. f. 20 (18G5) (Menado). 

 cJ ? . ra2)nio veiorh, Rothschild, Jris V. p. 442 (18;)2) (S.E. Celebes). 



This peculiar species is an ally of P. clytia L. and paradoxus (Zink.). The 

 femah is larger than the tnale; the whitish discal markings are shorter and of a 

 paler colour; that behind the second discoidal vein to the forewing is obsolete, like 

 the whitish streaks in the marginal region of that wing. 



Hob. Celebes (6 c?, 1 ?). 



P. 390. .Mr. William Doherty, when here at Tring a few weeks ago, told me that 

 the s}iecimen of I'. ne.K iii0C(jeiii Hour., described by Honratli from Mr. Xeumiigen's 

 collection, was caught on 8umba, not on 8ambawu, and that, therefore, the " Ilab." 

 Samliawa is erroneous. 



