838 RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



I'apilio Pompilius, Fabr. Maut. Ins. ii. p. 8, n. GO (1787) ; Godt. Euc. Meth. ix. p. 49, u. 70 (1819). 



roiUiliiim PumpHius, 8waiiis. Zool. 111. Ins. ii. t. 105 (1838). 



Pdthiisa Aiitiphates, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 142, t. 03, f. 1, 1 a (1881j. 



I'lipilii} itiiiniiuti, Forbes.* 



Male and Female. Wings above pale stramineous ; anterior wings with the cell crossed by five 

 black fasciae, the first and second slender, the third broad, the fourth wedge-shaped and not reaching 

 the median nervure, the fifth broadest and occupying extremity of cell, a broad marginal and a submarginal 

 black fascia which amalgamate at about the second median nervule, and the marginal fascia not quite 

 reaching the outer angle, the ground colour of the basal half of cell and of the apical area is pale greenish, 

 the costal margin being narrowly black ; posterior wings with a black lunate and broken marginal fascia, 

 the caudate appendages black, outwardly and narrowly margined with ochraceous, with their apices 

 greyish, a plumbaginous patch at anal-angular area containing two or three submarginal narrow 

 transverse black spots, and extending a short distance down the caudate appendages, anal angle inwardly 

 margined with ochraceous, with a black spot above. Anterior wings beneath marked as above, but with 

 the two basal fascia extending a short distance beneath cell, the fourth fascia almost reaching the median 

 nervure, the marginal and submarginal fascite not amalgamated at the second median nervule, and the 

 ground colour at the area of the median uervules pale greyish-white ; posterior wings beneath with 

 the basal half greenish, crossed by three longitudinal narrow black fasciae, the outermost irregular and 

 sometimes more or less broken ; this is followed by a series of irregular black spots ; the ground colour 

 is then dark ochraceous, with a submarginal series of black spots approaching closer to the margin 

 towards anal angle, a broken Innately macular black margin which at anal angle is preceded by dark 

 plumbaginous between it and the submarginal spots ; a large black spot above anal angle preceded by 

 two transverse yellowish spots, margined on each side by blackish ; caudate apjjendages as above, but 

 with a pale central line almost reaching their apices. Body above with the thorax pale plumbaginous ; 

 the abdomen ochraceous, with dorsal black spots ; body beneath and legs very pale ochraceous, the 

 abdomen and thorax margined with blackish, the legs streaked with blackish. 



Exp. wings, (? and 5 , 72 to 84 millim. 



Hae. — Continental India ; Silhet (Horsf. & Moore) ; Sikkim (coll. Dist.). — Ceylon (Moore). — Andaman 

 Islands; Port Blair (Moore). — Teuasserim ; Houagduran Source (Limborg — Moore). — Malay Peninsula; 

 Province Wellesley (colls. Dist. and Sauer) ; Perak (Kunst. — Calc. Mus.) ; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. Mus.).— 

 Sumatra (Snellen). — Billiton (Godm. & Salv.). — Java (Horsf. & Moore); Batavia (Snellen). — Borneo 

 (Lowe— coll. Dist.); Banjermasin, Pontianak (Voll.).— Philippines (Semper). — China; Hong Kong (Gray). 



This species is very variable and extremely difficult to projjerly identify under its several 

 named forms. Firstly, all the Malaccan forms are distinctly separable from the true 

 P. antiphates in not having the first and second basal fasciae of the anterior wings extending 

 beneath the cell, and also in not having the outer marginal fascia quite reaching the outer 

 angle. This form is found in Continental India (I have specimens from Sikkim) and in 

 China. We have now three named forms differing in these respects from P. antiphates, — the 

 P. alcibiades, Fabr., 1'. pompilnts, Fabr., and P. itamputi, Forbes, — and for drawings made of 

 these, and for precise and liberal information concerning the same, I am much indebted 

 to Mr. A. G. Butler. I thus learn that P. alcibiades is the Javan form of the species, and that 



"the P. pompilius of Fabricius is I believe correctly identified by Swainson and is the 



Malaccan form of P. alcibiades, difficult to separate from it indeed by description but 



■:■ I am informed by Mr. Butler that this form is described in Forbes' ' Nat. Wand. East Archipel.,' but I liave not yet 

 seen that worli. 



