PAPILIONIDiE, 



PAPILIO. XXIII. 



XXXIX.— PAPILIO MITHEAS. 3. Fig. 1. 



Exp. 2i inches. 



Male. Upperside. Both wings jet hLack. Anterior wings with three oval 

 pale biscuit-coloured spots, one towards the apex, above the upper discoidal 

 nervule, and two others on either side of the middle median nervule adjacent 

 to the median nervure. Posterior wings with a large biscuit-coloured spot 

 extending over the outer two-thirds of the cell, two small similarly coloured 

 spots above, and two others below the cell, the spot nearest the inner margin 

 four times the size of the others. Cilia between the veins narrowly white. 



Underside. Both wings dull black with spots as on the upperside. 



Female resembles the male, but the anterior wings are rounder towards the 

 apex ; on those wings there is an additional spot above the lowest subcostal 

 nervule, and an elongate spot in the cell on the inner side of the median 

 nervure. 



Hab. British Guiana (Parish). 



lu the Collections of the British Museum (two speeimens) and of Mr. Clrose-Smith (four 

 specimeus). 



This species is very close to P. Triopas, Godt., which is a larger species, browner in the 

 <olour of the wings, the spots on which are yellower. My specimens of P. Triopas all have three 

 subapical spots on the anterior wings, and on the posterior wings there are two small spots at the 

 end of the cell, which are absent in both sexes of P. Mithras. 



XL.— PAPILIO NYMPHAS. Fig. 2. 



Exp. 2^ inches. 



Female. Upperside. Anterior wings brown, semi-transparent, with two 

 very indistinct pale spots on the disc lietween the median nervules. Posterior 



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