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containing two of the submarginal and one of the marginal spots, the anal angle also black. Body above 

 more or less coneolorous with wings. 



Female. Anterior wings above as in P. phfrni.r, but with an obscure pale fascia near apex ; posterior 

 wings blackish, dusted with some scattered minute metallic-greenish scales, three large greyish-white spots 

 separated by the first and second median nervules, — the uppermost more or less obsolete ; these pale 

 spots are followed by three large dark black marginal spots, the lowermost of which is posteriorly margined 

 with red, a large reddish patch at anal-angular area, containing a rounded black spot with the extreme 

 angle itself black. Anterior wings beneath as above, but paler, and with a greyish patch at inner margin 

 and a smaller one beyond cell ; posterior wings beneath as above, but darker, with basal red spots, 

 the reddish patch at anal-angular area larger, a marginal series of large black spots placed between 

 the nervules, the reddish patch also containing two submai-ginal spots ; extreme anal angle black as 

 above. Body and legs fuscous or black. 



Exp. -wings, <y , 116 millim. ; $ , 147 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Malacca (Biggs — coll. Dist.). 



This interesting form, for the acquisition of which I am indebted to the exertions of the 

 Rev. L. C. Biggs in Malacca, is closely allied — especially in the female sex — to 1'. tliunhcnjii, 

 Sieb.,* a Japanese insect. Whether its position in relation to P. agcnor is that of a distinctly 

 specific or varietal character is, as stated before, a perfectly open question, and one awaiting 

 solution. 



7c. Papilio esperi. (Tab. XXVIII., fig. 1 <? , f and 6 2 .) 



Papilio Kspen, Butler, Trans. Linn. See. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 553, n. 17, t. Ixviii. fig. 7 il877). 

 Pajnlw I'mtcii,,,- (part), Esper (uec Cramer), Ausl. Schmett. t. 29, f. 2 (1785-98|. 



Male. Wings above and beneath resembling those of P. cili.i; but the posterior wings beneath 

 having the marginal spots continuous and inwardly bounded by more or less distinct reddish lunules, the 

 spots in the red anal-angular area also much larger. 



Female. Eesembling the male above, but with the anterior wings dark greyish, the basal area, 

 neuration, and longitudinal streaks between the nervules black, and with a large diffused broad subapical 

 whitish fascia. Posterior wings as in male, hut with a reddish spot at anal angle, and sometimes a 

 smaller but similarly coloured spot on posterior margin between the third median nervule and submedian 

 uervure. Anterior wings beneath as above; posterior wings beneath as in male, the spots in the red 

 anal-angular patch somewhat smaller, and the red submarginal lunules obsolete. 



Exp. wings, ^ , 145 millim. ; 2 , 140 to 155 miUim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula ; Quedah (coll. Dist.) ; Province Wellesley (coll. Sauer) ; Malacca (Pinwill— 

 Brit. Mus. ; Biggs — coll. Dist.). 



Id. Papilio mestor. (Tab. XXVIIL, figs. 2 J , I 7 2.) 



Iliadfs Mrstor, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 89, ii. 931 (181G). 



Papilio Mi'stoi; Butl. Trans. Linn. See. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 553, n. 18 (1877 1. 



Papilio Androrjeos, $, Cram. Pap. Ex. i. t. 91, f. A, B (1779) ?. 



* Considered a synonym of P. agenor by Mr. Kirby (Syn. Cat. Diurn. Len., Suppl- V- BIO. 1877) : and treated as a 

 synonj-m of P. memnon by Mr. Elwes (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 873). 

 f As proposed by Mr. Butler. 

 I As proposed by Mr. Butler. The under surface of the posterior wings only given. 



Sept. 25, 1885. " "* *" 



