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abdomen black ; beneath : the palpi, thorax and abdomen marked 

 with greyish white. 



Kep. 106 mm. (4-80"). 



Hob. Burma; Tonkin. 



A rare insect ; recorded from Taungoo and the Karen Hills in 

 Lower Burma ; from Katha and the Ruby Mines district in Upper 

 Burma. Fruhstorfer took it in Middle Tonkin. 



522. Papilio polytes, Linn. Si/st. Nat. ed. x,1758, p. 460, $ ; Davidson 



# Aitken, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. v, 1890, p. 366, larva & pupa ; 



Hothsch. Nov. Zool. ii. 1895, p. 343, rf . 

 Papilio pammon, Linn. Si/st. Nut. ed. x, 1758, p. 460, tf; Moore 



(Laertias), Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 223, pis. 462, 463, & 464. 

 Papilio romulus, Cramer, Pap. E.iot. i, 1776, p. 67, pi. 43, tig. A, ? ; 



Moore (Laertias), Lep. Ceyl. i, 1857, p. 150, pi. 59, figs. 1, 1 a-1 c, 



8 

 Papilio cyrus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii (1), 1793, p. 7. 



A polymorphic form. The <$ varies slightly, but is fairly 

 constant throughout its range ; the $ generally with two forms, 

 in Southern India and Ceylon with three, strikingly different in 

 appearance. 



<3 $ . Upperside black. Pore wing : cell and apical area with 

 not very prominent irrorated lines of pale yellowish scales, and 

 admarginal white spots along the 

 termen. Hind wing : a trans- 

 verse discal series of elongate 

 white spots in the interspaces 

 from the dorsum to 7, these spots 

 divided by the black veins and 

 succeeded by diffuse ill-defined 

 sparse blue scaling on the post- 

 discal area ; an obscure spot of a 

 deeper black than the ground- 

 colour at the torual angle sur- 

 mounted by a lunule of blue scales. 

 Underside similar ; ground-colour 

 of a duller more opaque black. 

 Fore wing : the cellular and inter- 

 nervular irrorated streaks more 

 prominent. Hind wing: the 

 discal series of white spots and 

 blue scaling succeeded by a sub- 

 terminal more or less incomplete 

 series of dingy white lunules, and 

 a row of small admarginal spots 

 in the interspaces along the termen ; the tornal spot divided from 

 the blue scaling by an ochraceous line. Antennae, head, thorax 

 and abdomen black ; head and thorax anteriorly on the upperside. 

 and head, thorax and abdomen beneath spotted with white, the 

 last with lateral white lines. The d 1 of the cyrus form differs as 



Fig. 13. Papttio polyte 



