PAPILIONIDiE 



PAPILIO. XXI. 



XXXY.^PAPILIO WEISKEI. Figs. 1, 2. 



l\<pUin nv/,s/,r/, C. Ril)be, " Insecten Borse," XVII., p. 308 (1900), No. 89; 

 "Iris," Band XIII., Heft. 2 (Fpl)niary, lUOl). 



Ex}). 2f inches. 



Ufperside. Both wings brownish-black. Anterior wings with a hxrge 

 greenisii-blue bar crossing the cell before its end and extending to the costa ; 

 two other spots of a similar colour, tinged with violet in certain lights, on either 

 side of the lowest discoidal nervule adjacent to the disco-cellular nervules, the 

 upper of which is the largest ; a large subapical green spot a little beyond the 

 end of the cell, crossing the subcostal nervules and subcostal nervure, where it 

 is minute and nearly white ; a submarginal row of small bluish-white spots 

 crossing the disc, of which tliat nearest the apex is the largest. On the disc, 

 below i\w median nervure, is a large sub-basal col)alt-violet area, changing mto 

 green at the base, and indented outwardly on the lowest median nervule and 

 submedian nervure. Posterior wings with a large basal white spot on the costa 

 above the upper subcostal nervule, changing into green at the base, and a large 

 green spot crossing the basal half of the cell ; two cobalt-blue spots between the 

 median nervules towards the anal angle, tlie lowest of wliich is deeply indented 

 outwardly ; above these is a sul)niarginal row of pale spots more or less 

 developed. 



FxDERSiDE. Both wings pinkish-brown. Anterior wings with the spots as 

 on the upperside, those on the discoidal nervules being nearly white, and those 

 below the median nervure quite white, the basal half of the cell and the costa 

 above it l)eing green. Posterior wings with the basal half from the costa to the 

 median nervure green, bounded externally by an irregular silvery-white band ; 

 the disc is more or less irrorated by pinkisli-white scales and mottled in places 

 by a darker shade of the ground colour. 



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