PAPILIOXID.i:. — PAI'IMONIXJ..— PAPILId. ol 



XXII.— PAPILIO POLISTRATIS. Figs. 5, G. 



PapHio Polistratiis, H. Grose Smith, ■'Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," ser. 6, vol. 8, p. 1'21 (February, ISSD). 



Exp. 2-|- inches. 



" Jfah-. Uppersidk. Both wings dark hidwn. with green spots and 

 markings. Anterior wings with spots as in /'. Polirciics, Cram., l)ut tlie 

 markings across the cell more linear and undulated. Posterior wings with a 

 green stripe following the inner margin from the base halfway down the wings, 

 a nearly central band of three longitudinal spots divided by the nervures, the 

 spot on the costal margin nearly white, the other two green, the lowest sjjot 

 shorter than in P. Pulicerira, between this band and the suljmarginal row of 

 linear spots are two spots, one on the costal margin oval, nearly white, the other 

 below the first subcostal nervule smaller, oval, acuminate at the lower end ; a 

 submarginal row of narrow spots. 



" Underside with markings as above, but anterior wings paler ; posterior 

 wings blacker, the latter with a central linear red band in the middle of a broad 

 dark band, and red markings curving between the median nervules to the inner 

 margin a little above the anal angle ; a broad dark band crosses the disk 

 beyond the centre." (H. Grose Smith, loc. cit.) 



Hab. Mombasa (Last). 



In the Collection of H. Grose Smith. 



'• This butterfly is intermediate between P. Po/i'cenes, Cram., and P. Porthaon. Hew.; it is 

 probably a hybrid between these species, or between P. Policenes, Cram., and P. Colonna. 

 Ward, or between P. Colonna and P. Porthaon, Hew." (H. Grose Smith, loc. cit.) 



Two examples were received among a number of P. Colonna. and it is puseible others were 

 overlooked, as the resemblance to P. Colonna on the underside is very strong. 



