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RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



This does not appear to he an ahundant species ; it was not contained in the large 

 collection made by Capt. Pinwill at Malacca, and has been included in very few of those sent 

 home to the writer as contributory material for this work. 



4. Papilio doubledayi. (Tab. XXXIII., fig. 4 ? .) 



I'apilh rhml,l,;hn,i, Wallace, Trans. Linu. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 42, note (1865) ; Obertli. Etudes d'Eiit. Quatr. 

 Livr. p. 45, u. G4 (1870) ; Gosse, Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. ii. p. 323, t. 82, f. 17, 18 (1882). 



Female. Anterior wings above dark fuliginous, with dark fuscous streaks in cell and along and 

 between the nervules ; posterior wings black, with two white spots in cell, five similarly coloured spots 

 beyond cell, of which two almost subquadrate are separated by the lower subcostal nervule, the other three 

 oblong and divided by the median nervules, the innermost spot longest ; three submarginal greyish spots 

 divided by the lower subcostal and discoidal nervules and two red marginal spots, one at apex of second 

 median nervule and the other at anal angle ; caudate prolongation black. Anterior wings beneath as 

 above ; posterior wings as above, but with an additional spot in cell and two additional spots beyond cell, 

 one between the discoidal and upper median nervules and one above the upper subcostal nervule, the lower 

 submarginal greyish spot tinged with reddish, and an additional submarginal red spot between the first 

 and second median nervules. Head and pronotum black, with an anterior pronotal collar and a tuft 

 between the eyes carmine; abdomen above ochraceous, the base and some dorsal spots black; thorax 

 beneath and legs black, lateral margins of the thorax at extreme base of wings carmine ; abdomen beneath 

 ochraceous, spotted with black. 



Exp. wings, ? , 125 millim. 



H.\B.— Continental India; Assam (Wallace); N.E. Himalayas (coll. Dist.).— Burma (coll. Dist.) ; 

 Moulmein (Wallace).— Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.). 



This appears to be a very scarce Fapilio in the Malay Peninsula, as I have only seen 

 one specimen from that locality, and that an example from Province Wellesley in my own 

 collection.* I have given the description of that specimen, but the species would seem to 

 be very variable, as I have Burmese examples in which the white spots in the cell of the 

 posterior wings are amalgamated and the surrounding spots also larger, whilst in one specimen 

 I possess, from the N.E. Himalaya, the spots in the cell are almost obsolete. 



POLYDOBUS ! Group. 



c. Pi>li/i!orus-gi-oni^, Wallace, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 23 (1805). 



Sec. LXXIII., Folder, Spec. Lepid. Pap. pp. 87 (1864).' 



Mniflaides, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 84 (1816) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 151 (1881). 



Abdominal fold in male small, or none ; anal valves small or obsolete, hairy ; posterior wings 

 simple or caudately produced. 



This is a somewhat larger group of species, the distribution of which is focussed in the 

 Malayan Archipelago, throughout which region it is found. One species only is known from 

 the Malay Peninsula. 



-- Since this was written I have been ailvised by Mr. Walter Egerton of a specimen taken at the Langkawi Islands, 

 off the coast of Quedah. 



I P. jwhjdorus, Linn., is a species found in many of the eastern islands of the Malay Peninsula, but not in this fauna. 



