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ILLUSTRATIONS OF TWO HITHERTO UNFIGURED SPECIES OF THE 
GENUS PAPILIO FROM INDIA. 
Tuose beautiful species of the genus Papilio, which are for the 
most part distinguished by having the ground of the wings pale 
yellowish or cream-coloured, traversed by straight black fascize, 
often extending across both the wings, and having the hind wings 
terminated by long slender tails, and which constitute Boisduval’s 
sixteenth group, appear to be dispersed nearly over the whole 
globe, and hence from this cosmopolitan disposition, and the great 
similarity which exists amongst the species, some confusion both in 
the synonymes and habitats of several of them has taken place. 
Thus the Papilio Nomius of Esper, (P. Meges Hb. P. Niamus, 
Godart. Swainson, Zool. Ill., 2 ser., pl. 32,) an insect now known 
to be a native of India*, was described by Godart as an inhabitant 
of Brazil, whilst Mr. Swainson even asserts that he took the species 
in that country. Other allied species appear to be of the greatest 
rarity in the East, amongst which may especially be mentioned 
P. Telamon, of Donovan, a native of China, which we may now, 
perhaps, hope to receive; P.Dorcus Reinwardt, beautifully figured by 
M. De Haan in the 6th plate of his splendid Memoir on the Papi- 
liones of the East, and the two species represented in my plate ; of 
these the two upper figures exhibit both surfaces of the wings of 
an entirely new species, whilst the under figure represents the 
underside of a species not hitherto figured, and of which a descrip- 
tion of the upper side alone has hitherto been given to the public. 
PAPILIO AGETES, Wesiw. (Puate 55, figs. 1, 2.) 
P. alis pallidissime stramineis costa vix virescenti, anticis fasciis 4 (tertia a basi abbreviata,) 
margineque apicali nigris, posticis margine apicali nigro maculaque anali rubra. Expans. 
alar. unc. 33. 
Inhabits the East Indies (Sylhet?) Mus. Brit. 
This elegant species is allied to P. Agesilaus, and especially to 
P. Doreus. The extremity of the discoidal cell in the fore wings 
is connected with the costa by a small black conical mark, which in 
some of the allied species becomes an additional fascia. The two 
basal bars of the fore wings are carried across the hind ones beneath; 
* I have now before me a considerable number brought home by Colonel Hearsey, a gentle- 
man devotedly attached to the study of the transformations of Indian Lepidoptera. 
