PAPILIONID^.-PAPILIONIN.E. 



PAPILIO. XIII. 



XX.— PAPILIO STEATIOTES. Figs, i, 2. 



Papilin St ni hull's, H. Grose Smith, " Anuals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," scr. 5, vol. -20, p. 433 (Dec, 1887); Honrath, "Berliner Entomolo- 

 giscbe Zeitschrift," vol. 349, pi. 0, tig. 3 (1888). 



Exp. 3f inches. 



" Male. Upperside. White, tinged at the base with pale greenish yellow. 

 Anterior wings with the costal margin and cell crossed by four black fascia ; 

 the basal fascia narrow, the second, third and fourth wedge-shaped, the fourth 

 extending beyond the discocellular nervules ; beyond the fourth fascia is a 

 semitransparent space divided by the discoidal nervules, which are black ; 

 apex broadly black, centred with another transparent space, divided by tlie 

 black nervules. Posterior wings with exterior margins narrowly black, and 

 three black lunate spots near the anal angle ; anal area grey, a large bright, 

 quadrangular, carmine spot at the anal angle, liordered on the upperside with 

 black, and on the inside on the inner margin with a white linear spot. Tails 

 narrow and black, with white margins. 



"Underside. Anterior wings as al)Ove, tinged at the base with yellowish 

 brown. Posterior wings ochraceous, crossed at the middle and near the base 

 by two black bands, slightly convergent towards the anal angle, and extending 

 as far as the greyish-black space above the anal carmine spot ; the exterior 

 margin and anal area broadly black, irrorated towards the anal angle with grey, 

 the carmine spot as above, the discocellular and median nervules black ; two 

 small black spots below the former." (H. G. B., loc. cit.) 



Hab. Kina Balu ^Mountain, North Borneo (Whitehead) ; Sarawak. 



In the Collectious of Messrs. Wliitehead and H. Grose Smith, the Hou. Walter Eothsehild. 

 and others. 



"This insect appears to be intermediate between P. Antiphates, Cramer, and P. Agetes. 

 Westwood ; in shape and markings of the upperside it approaches P. Agetes ; on the underside it 

 bears a superfieial resemblance to P. Aniiphates" (H. G. S.. loc. cit.) 



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