FAM1L^ PAPILIOMD.E. 



SUB-FAMll.V 1" VI'lI.IoM.X.i:. Bales. 



tJENCS I'.M'lLKl, (Linn.) FahriciM. 

 SECTKJX (JKNITHOI'TEUA. liuUd. 



PLATE I. 



Papilio Jliranda, -sp. nov. 



6 Alte aiitictu nigcmmic, certo situ uitidc ccrrulesccutcs ; striis tridociiii 

 (quarta elongato-lunulari) de quarta submarginalibus, decrescentibus, flavidis ; 

 {■iliis iiii^ris flavo intovrujitis: posticte llavic nitidtL' corto situ minime vircsccntes, 

 iiKxrt^iue oinni uigro, externo sex-elovato, Acuis nigris ; corpus uigruui al)do- 

 111 i no flavcsconte. -Uic aiiticte subtus ivgione apical! scricca, striis suprrnis 

 albidis : alitor volut supra; corpus tlioraco uigro, abdoinino (lavo vah idis 

 albidis : exp. alar. unc. (5, lin. 1. 



? Ake anticjo supra bruimoa? venis nigris, striis velut mari positis sed 

 albidis : posticuD flavtc nigro irroi-ata^, liasi, margiue, fasciaque maculari discum 

 fore totuin obtegonte, sericeo-nigris : corpus nigro fuscum collo flavo, abdoiiiiue 

 ])auirun paUidiore lateraliter flavo squamoso. 



Alio subtus cbaractcribus multo distinctioribus, alitor volut sujira : corpus 

 tliorace nigro, abdomiue flavo, hoc fusco sex-fasciato : oxp. alar, unc 7, liu. .">, 

 Sarawak (Lowe). c? , ? , 1?. ^I. 



This grand aciiuisition has recently arrivnd in a Collection made at .Sarawak (Borneo) l)y >Ir. 

 I^owe ; it ia only surpassed in beauty, in its own jicculiar group, by tbe P. .Mitgellmmn of Felder, sent from 

 the Philippines by Dr. Semper. One of the most striking charactei-s observable in P. Mti-amla is tlio 

 dLstinclness of the deep purple gloss which in certain lights overspreads the entire surface of the front 

 wings of the male : this sjjecies seems to find its true position between /'. Helena and P. AnijihriiiiiiK, 

 the form of the front wings being most like tlie former, the striation of the wings more nearly resembling 

 llie latter species : six or eight specimens of P. .Minindt came in the same collection from Mr. Lowe, 

 >omc of which are now in the CoUectiuns of Messrs. Uruce, Salvin, &c. 



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