PAPILIONID^.-PAPILIONIN.E. 



PAPILIO. XI. 



XVII.— PAPILIO EEITHONIOIDES. i . Figs. 3, 4. 



Papilio EritlioHioides, H. Grose Smith, " Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," ser. G, vol. 7, p. 122 (1891). 



Exp. i . 3-|, ? . 4|— 5 inches. 



Malt'. Upperside. Both wings marked as in P. Jtrniolciis, Linn., but on 

 the posterior wings the stramineous band which crosses the wings before the 

 middle is broader, and the spots in the submarginal row are more lunulate ; at 

 the lower end of the dark rufous spot above the anal angle is a large siibovatc 

 black spot; and the middle median nervnle is produced into a rather longer tail 

 than in 1'. Dciuoh'U!^. 



Underside. More resembles P. Ei-itJuniins, Cram., than P. I)emoh'i(.s ; but 

 the anterior wings are more irrorated with stramineous scales, and on the 

 posterior wings the central band is less rufous and broader than in i'. Erithauins : 

 the curved black line which crosses the cell near its extremity in that species is 

 represented in P. Erithonioidcs l)y a triangular black spot with the apex pointing- 

 outwards, and the irregular row of black bars which divides the central band is 

 wider ; the veins on the disk are black instead of stramineous ; the ocellus 

 below the costal nervure is larger ; and at the anal angle, instead of the ferru- 

 ginous spot crowned with a black spot centred with blue scales, is a dark rufous 

 spot, with the black spot at its lower end as on the upperside, above which is a 

 round black spot with a blue iris centred with brown. The submarginal 

 lunules are more deeply incised on the outer side. 



Eemalc. Upperside. Nearly resembling the male, but on the posterior 

 wings a space on each side of the large ocellus below the costal nervure is bright 

 ferruginous. On the disk, the space between the stramineous band and the row 

 of submarginal lunules is brightly irrorated with stramineous scales, in which, 

 between the veins, are spaces less densely irrorated with the same colour, giving 

 the appearance of indistinct black spots, with clusters of blue scales more or 

 less distinct below each, resembling somewhat the mottled appearance of the 



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