1012 Additions: PAPILIONIDAE. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



Additions to Vol. V. 



Papilionidae. 



Having transferred the newlj- described forms since tlie publication of the work to the supplementary 

 numbers, we add here some statements about the Papilio which have been dealt with on p. 12 to 44 of this 

 volume. 



P. ascanius (p. 12). The larva is blackish-brown, powdered with grey, which is on the dorsum con- 

 densed into fine markings. The fleshy cones are verj' dark red, some (in front and behind on the larva) pale 

 yellow. It takes the species from its oviform state 3 to 4 months to develop into the imago. (Ferreira 

 d'Almeida). 



P. perrhebus damocrates (p. 13). Larva stout, dark eaith-colom-ed brown, the fleshy cones changing 

 from yellow to red-brown; some of these coires, as well as an oblique band extending from the foremost ventral 

 feet towards the dorsum, bone-colourecl. On Aristolochiae, Asarum etc. Pupa with a widened abdominal part, 

 an obtusely bituberculate head, green. I very freciuently captmed the imagines at the end of January and 

 in February on blue-blossoming bushes in the Agriciiltaral Park of Palermo near Buenos Ayres. 



P. agavus (p. 13). According to Feereira d'Almeida, the dull or lighter purple eggs are deposited 

 on the leaves of Aristolochia rumifolia; larva in its adult stage similar to that of nephaiion, reddish-brown finely 

 dusted with a yellowish ashy brown, so that irregular markings across the dorsum are produced; with numerous 

 red-brown, on the 2nd, 7tli and 10th rings j'ellow fleshy cones across the dorsum and similar ones laterally, 

 of which those on the 1st, 6th and 10th rings are yellow. A yellow lateral band ends at the dorsal cone of 

 the 7th ring. Pupa green with a grey (ventrum) or yellow (dorsum) tint. The imago, though living in the 

 forests, frequents also gardens on account of the food-jslant ; it flies singly all the j'ear round, but near Rio it 

 is of frequent occurrence especially from November till Januarj^ and from Maj till September. 



P. quadratus (p. 14; cJ t. 2 b). In the meantime the $ has also been communicated by A. H. Fassl. 

 The length of the forewings is 33 mm, and thus it is one of the largest ?? of the aereeas-group. The white square 

 spot is about twice as large in both the specimens taken, as in the (J. The upper surface of the cJ is much darker 

 than in the $ of the form spolkdus Stgr. ; the distal half of the forewing somewhat lighter, the black veins 

 in it well visible; along the costa of the forewing beneath runs a greyish-white longitudinal patch extending 

 almost into the apex. Hindwing with a roundish, undivided, yellowish-white discal spot about twice as large 

 as in the (J. Red oval spots of the dorsal side of the hindwing likewise present, some\^'hat lighter red and larger 

 than in the (S; the same is the case with the red collar and the red spots, beneath on the chest and anus. — 

 Also all the cJcJ captured quite constantly exhibit the square angular spot of the forewing, to which the species 

 owes its denomination. 



iiriuiiaciila: P. cMldrenae unimacula J. d- T. This form originates from Ecuador. From the typical childrenae 



the (^(^ differ by a reduction of the green cellular stripe on the forewing; on the hindwing the red longitudinal 

 spot is shorter and ends more remote from the margin. The $ forewing exhibits a single light sjjot behind the 

 middle of the submedian space. On the hindwing the red colour is very nnich reduced. 



dititfus. P. cmiorina dilufus J. <£• T. from Ecuador is based upon a (^ which is of a smaller than normal size 



and has shorter spots on the hindwing, the distal spot being pale pink. 



P. ne2>halio7i (p. 18). The orange eggs are deposited on Aristolochia brasiliensis ; the imagines 

 fly in Southern Brazil particularly from January till May and from the end of August till December. (Ferreira 

 D'Almeida). 



P. zacynthos (p. 19). Larva dark brown, covered with grey, the light colouring being arranged into 

 longitudinal strokes. The fleshy cones are anteriorly and posteriorly light yellow, on the middle rings mostly 

 reddish-brown. The species, according to Ferreira d'Almeida, has up to 5 generations a year near Rio. Pupa 

 similar to that of P. agavus; the eggs are singly deposited on Aristolochia rumifolia oblonga. 



P. polydamas (p. 20) flies all the year round in South Brazil, but more frequently in May and October 

 till December; the eggs are not singly deposited, but mostly some at one place or near Aristolochia brasiliensis. 

 (Ferreira d'Almeida.) 



P. polysticVus (p. 21). According to Ferreira d'Almeida the larva of the form janira is grey, tinted 

 yellowish, the fleshy cones are red, tinted dark; it flies more on giassy plains, not on marshy soil, as most 

 of the other lepidoptera feeding on Aristolochiae. 



