RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. IJiy 



12. Papilio polytes. (Tab. XXIII. , tigs. 7 cT ; 8, 9, 10 2 .) 



Pupilio L'oh/tes, LinnfBUS, Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 4ti(), ii. 7 (1758) ; ib. ccl. xii. p. 71G, n. 5 (17C7) ; Clorcli, Icones, 



t. 14, f. 1 (1759) ; Cram. Pap. Ex. iii. t. 2G5, A— C (1782) ; Esper, Ausl. Sclimctt. p. 19, t. 3, f. 1 (1784) ; 



ibid. p. 50, t. 12, f. 1 (1780) ; Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 443, n. 2 (1775) ; Spec. Ins. ii. p. 2, n. 4 (1781) ;' 



Mant. lus. ii. p. 1, n. 5 (1787); Ent. Syst. iii. p. 2, ii. 5 (1793); Horsf. & Monro, Cat. Lep. Mus. 



E.I.C. vol. i. p. 103, 11. 208 (1857); Keak. Proc. Ent. See. Phil. iii. p. 408, n. 1G(18G4|; Moore, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G5, p. 487; ibid. p. 750; Butl. Lepid. Fabr. p. 253, n. 02 (1809); Tniiis. Linn. 



Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 552, n. 12 (1877) ; Drucc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 3.';7, n. 10; ibid. 1874, 



p. 108, n.4; Snell. Tijd. Ent. xix. p. 155, n.71 |187G); Lop. v. Midd. Sum. p. 25, n. 0(1880); du Nic. 



J. A. S. Beng. vol. l. p. 53, n. 01 |1S81|; Auiivill. Kon-1. sv. vet. Akad. llaiidl. Land 19, no. 5, 



pp. 11, 12, 14 (1882). 

 Papilio P<iliU's, Godt. Enc. Metb. ix. p. 70. ii. 120 (1819). 

 Princeps Stichim, Hiibn. Samml. Ex. Schmett. (1800 — 1810). 

 Menelaides Polytes, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 85, u. 809 (1810). 

 Menelaides Alpheiior, Hiibn. (part), Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 85, n. 870 (1810). 

 Pupilio Piiiiinion, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 400, u. 8 (1758); ibid. ex. xii. p. 746, n. 8 (1707); Clerck, Icones, 



t. 14, f. 2 (1759); Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 445, u. 13 (1775) ; Spec. Ins. ii. p. 4, n. 10 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. 



ii. p. 3, n. 16 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 7, n. 20 (1793) ; Cram. Pap. Ex. ii. t. 141, B (1779); Esp. 



Ausl. Schmett. p. 240, t. 40, B. f. 1 (1793) ; Godt. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 74, n. 139 (1819); Boisd. Spec. 



Gen. i. p. 271, n. 96 (1836); Gray, Cat. Lepid. Papil. p. 19, n, 82 (1852); Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lap. 



Mus. E.I.C. vol. i. p. 104, u. 209 (1857); Keak. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 466, u. 15 (1864); 



Wall. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 51, u. 02, t. 2, f. 1, 3, 5, 6 (1865) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, 



p. 487 ; ibid. p. 756 ; ibid. 1878, p. 840 ; VoU. Tijd. Ent. iii. p. 79, n. 79 (1860) ; SncU. Tijd. Ent. 



XX. p. 3 (1877) ; Godm. & Salv. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 641. n. 30 ; Oborth. Etudes d'Eut. Quatr. 



Livr. p. 47, n. 79 (1879) ; Gosse, Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. ii. p. 301, t. 29, f. 7—9 (1882). 

 Princeps Paiiiinon, Hiibn. Samml. Ex. Schmett. i. t. 109 (1806-16). 



Laertias Paiiimon, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 84, n. 861 (1816) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 259. 

 Papilio nomiiltcs, Cram. Pap. Ex. i. t. 43, A (1776) ; Gray, Cat. Lep. Papil. p. 20, u. 83 (1852); Moore, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 765. 

 Laertias Hoiinilua, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 150, t. 59, f. 1, a, h, c. (1881). 



Male. Wiugs above blackish or very dark fuscous ; anterior wings with an outer marginal series of 

 small creamy spots placed between the uervules ; posterior wiugs with a transverse discal series of large 

 creamy spots divided by the nervules, the fringe alternately creamy and blackish. Wiugs beueath as 

 above, but the posterior wings having a submarginal series of lunulate ochraceous spots, two spots a little 

 above anal angle, the uppermost largest, reddish, and preceded by some bluish scales, the fringe-like spots 

 much larger than above. Body and legs more or less coucolorous with wings. 



Female. Varietal form a.— Closely resembling the male above, but with a red spot at a little above 

 anal angle of posterior wiugs ; wings beneath as iu male, but the reddish spot above anal angle of posterior 

 wings duplex, and preceded by a somewhat reddish spot thickly irrorated with bluish scales situate between 

 the second and third median nervules. 



This is the form depicted at Tab. XXXIIL, figs. 8 aud 9, the last figure illustrating a specimen with 

 a more or less distinct series of reddish submarginal spots to the posterior wiugs above, whilst the spot 

 above anal angle is distinctly larger and enclosing a blackish centre. 



Female. Varietal form b.— Anterior wings above much paler, the basal area darker and with darker 

 streaks in cell and between the nervules ; posterior wings with five creamy discal spots, one iu and near 

 end of cell and four beyond apex of cell divided by the discoidal and first and second median uervules, 

 the innermost spot being more or less ochracuous aud situate iu a larger reddish patch krorated with 



