346 RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



PitpUio SatHrnu.1, Gueriu, Deless. Souv. lud. ii. p. 70 (18-13); Feld. Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. p. 320, n. 412, 



p. 367, 11. 248 (1864); Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 553, n. 16 (1877). 

 Paiiilio Xeptunux, Guer. Deless. Souv. Ind. ii. t. 18 (1843).* 

 I'ii/>ilii> Xrjilii'lHs, var. Sutumns, Gray, Cat. Lepid. Papil. p. 18 (1852). 



Male. Wings above black ; anterior wings dusted with minute bronzy scales, which form longitudinal 

 raj's in cell, a subapical transverse fascia of five pale stramineous spots divided by the nervules, and 

 sometimes with a sixth very slender linear subcostal spot ; outer margin witli minute white spots between 

 the nervules ; posterior wings with a large discal macular pale stramineous patch divided by the nervules, 

 extending from near costa — where it is narrowest — to the second median nervule, more or less convex 

 inwardly, and outwardly strongly and obtusely dentate, principally produced between the discoidal and upper 

 median nervules ; fringe alternately greyish and black. Wings beneath as above, but the anterior wings 

 with the subapical transverse macular fascia larger and whiter than above, and with two whitish spots 

 near outer angle divided by the submedian nervure, the lowermost of which is very small ; posterior wings 

 with the discal macular patch whitish, and not pale stramineous as above, and continued to abdominal 

 margin by two somewhat violaceous spots divided by the lower median nervule, a submarginal series of 

 subviolaceous linear spots divided by the nervules and two similarly coloured spots near anal angle, the 

 lowermost smallest ; the fringe more broadly alternately greyish than above, the same colour extending to 

 the basal margins of the caudate appendages. Body above blackish, the pronotal collar spotted with 

 greyish ; body beneath and legs blackish ; the inner margin of eyes, posterior margin of head, spots 

 to thorax and abdomen, and under surface of femora greyish. 



Female. Anterior wings above with the subapical fascia larger and darker than in male, and with 

 two obscure and dull ochraceous spots near outer angle divided by the submedian nervure ; posterior wings 

 above with the discal patch continued to abdominal margin by two dull ochraceous spots divided by the 

 lower median nervule. Wings beneath as in male, but posterior wings with the submarginal apical spot 

 much enlarged and continued inwardly, the submarginal spots larger than in male. 



Exp. wings, <? , 97 to 120 millim. ; 5 , 80 to 13'2 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; Assam (Brit. Mus.). — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (colls. Saiier 

 and Dist.) ; Perak (Kunstler— Calc. Mus.) ; Malacca (coll. Wall. ; Pinwill — Brit. Mus.).— Sumatra (coll. 

 Wall. ; Forbes— coll. Dist.).— Borneo (Lowe— coll. Godm. & Salv.) ; Banjermasin (coll. Dist.) ; Elodina 

 (Pryer — coll. Dist.). 



lu some specimens, especially in a Sumatran one now before me, the pale stramineous 

 markings above are more or less shaded with dark ochraceous ; in other respects the species 

 seems fairly constant in character. 



PAMMOX t Group. 



h. Pa)/(H(o)(-group, Wallace, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 51 (1805). 



Sect. LX., Sub-sect. A, Felder, Spec. Lepid. Pap. pp. 30, 78, 79 (1864). 



Laertias, Hiibu. Verz. bek. Sclimett. p. 84 (1816) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 150 (1881). 



This abundant and interesting group of Papilios is found in Continental India, and 

 from thence distributed eastward through the contment as far north as China; it is also 

 found in the Indian islands and throughout the Malayan Archipelago. 



The group is also remarkable for the varietal and diverse forms of the females of the same 

 species, as is shown in the only one found in this fauna. 



■■ Gutriu's plate, as already noticed (aiitca, p. 335, note) was lettered erroneously, the species being fixed by that 

 author's description. 



I P.pamitwn is here enumerated and described under the elder name of P. puti/tes. 



