PapilionidcB. 89 



Pupilio Palinurus, Fabr. 



P. Palinurus was described by Fabricius {Mantissa, 

 p. 2) from the collection of Lund, as a native of Tranque- 

 bar. Fortunately, Sir Joseph Banks also possessed the 

 same species from Tranquebar, and in Mr. Jones's 

 drawings it is represented from the Banksian specimen 

 from that country, which is still preserved in the British 

 Museum. The fascia of the fore- wings is rather narrow, 

 and of nearly equal width, where it crosses the branches 

 of the median vein ; it is narrowed where it crosses the 

 end of the discoidal cell, extending a short distance 

 beyond it ; the fascia of the hind-wings is transverse, 

 narrowly ovate, reaching close to the anal margin of the 

 wing, and resting on the top of the anal ocellus. 



In the ' Revue Zoologique ' for 1840, M. Guerin- 

 Meneville separated, under the name of P. Brama, the 

 specimens from the " cote malaye," having the " bande 

 des ailes superieures large, passant sur Pextremite de la 

 cellule discoidale et etant coupee en deux parties egales par 

 cette extremite," whilst he retains the specific name of 

 P. Palinurus for those which have the " bande tres large, 

 passant en delans de Pextremite de la cellule discoidale 

 et touchant seulement cette extremite,'' and which have 

 a broad central dark fascia, nearly destitute of pale scales 

 in the hind-wings beneath. 



In the figures of the two sexes of P. Brama, the 

 male is represented with a much broader fascia in 

 the fore-wings, whilst in the hind-wings it is broadly 

 ovate, extending considerably within the discoidal cell, 

 which is not the case with the figure of the female. 



In Mr. Hewitson's collection are three apparently dis- 

 tinct forms of these insects : — 



1. The fascia on the fore- wings has the posterior half 

 of nearly equal breadth, and it is here extended so much 

 towards the hinder angle of the wings, that its inner 

 margin, when it touches the posterior edge of the wing, 

 is nearly ten lines distant from the body, and on the 

 hind-wings the fascia is very transverse and narrowed, 

 conical in its form, not quite extending to the anal mar- 

 gin considerably above the ocellus at the anal angle. 

 This appears to me to represent the typical P. Palinurus, 

 and such specimens of P. Brama, of Guerin-Meneville 

 (pi. I. f. 4) as he considered to be the females. 



