RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



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completely crossing wing, of which the five uppermost are quite detached and the third minute, the sixth, 

 seventh and eighth being largest and fused, a suhmarginal series of small spots and a small suljapical spot ; 

 posterior wings with a central discal macular fascia, not reaching anal angle and becoming narrowed 

 and elongated between the second and third median nervulos, a suhmarginal series of small spots, 

 a greyish marginal spot above anal angle, and the fringe alternately greyish-white. Wings beneath very 

 dark brownish, with a bronzy tinge, the pale greenish markings above very much paler and silvery 

 beneath, the spots larger than above, the basal spot in cell of anterior wings much larger and continued 

 beneath median nervure, meeting a similar basal spot on posterior wings which does not enter the cell ; 

 base of both wings silvery, posterior wings having the central fascia from end of cell to abdominal margin 

 bordered with black and red spots ; this central fascia at costal area is tinged with yellowish. Body above 

 blackish, beneath gi-eyish ; legs blackish, speckled and streaked with greyish. 



Exp. wings, <? and 2 , 75 to 83 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Peuang; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Perak (Kunst.— Calc. Mus.) ; 

 Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.). — Sumatra (Boisd.).— Nias Island (Kheil).— Java (coll. Oberth.). 



This is one of the commonest Papilios in the Malay Peninsula, and is found iu overv 

 collection. 



24. Papilio mecisteus, ». sp. 



Papitio A.vion, Butl. (nee. Fekl.), Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 552, u. 4 (1877). 



Wings above almost indistinguishable from P. 

 evemon ; beneath differing principally from that species 

 in the posterior wings, which have the short costal 

 fascia, which amalgamates with the longitudinal 

 fascia, rather closer to it and red spotted, and the 

 central pale macular fascia more notched at cellular 

 area. 



Exp. wings = exp. P. ecemmi. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. 

 Mus.). — Borneo; Saudakan (Pryer — coll. Dist.). 



The figure is taken from a Malaccan specimen in the British Museum, which has been 

 recorded as P. axion. A reference to Hiibner's figure,* however, to which Felder refers as 

 indicating his P. axion, will at once separate it, and the junction of the short red-spotted 

 costal fascia to the longitudinal one parallel with the abdominal margin of the posterior wings 

 will, even alone, distinguish it from that species ; a difference which is emphasised in Felder's 

 description. 



Fig. 108. — Papilio mecisti-us. 



25. Papilio telephus. 



Papilio Telephus, Felder, Eeise Nov. Lep. i. p. G4, n. 49 (1865). 



Zetides Telephus, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 144, t. 63, f. 3 (1881). 



Papilio Jason var. Evemonides, Hour. Berl. Entom. Zeitschr. Bd. xxviii. p. 396, t. x. f. 2 (1884). 



■■■ Under the name of Zetides eurypylus, Samml. Ex. Sclimett. (1816 — 1841). 

 October 25, 1885. 



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