PAPILIO. 



113 



b'. Upperside bluiah grey, stripes narrow; 



tornal yellow spot on hind wing absent or , 

 if present very small ........ . ......... P> m 



' 



. ......... ma reus , * 



b. Hind wing underside : ground-colour over ' Adieus, p. 114. 

 entire wing of uniform tint .............. P. megarus, p. 115. 



558. Papilio xenocles, Doubleday in Gray's Zool. Misc. 1842, p. 74 ; 



Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i, 1857, p. 90 ; Rothschild, Nov. 



Zool. ii, p. 458 ; Moore (Paranticopsis), Lep. 2nd. vi, 1904, p. 113, 



pi. 516, figs. 2, 2 a, rf $ . 

 Papilio (Paranticopsis) phrontis, de Niceville, J. A. S. B. Ixvi, 1897, 



p. 568, rf $ ; Moore (Paranticopsis), Lep. 2nd. vi, 1904, p. 112, 



pi. 516, figs. 1, 1 a, <$ $ . 

 Papilio xenocles, form temp, neronus, Fruhstorfer. Soc. Ent. 1902, 



p. 74. 

 Pararanticopsis neronus, Moore, Lep. Ind. vi, 1904, p. 114, pi. 517, 



figs. 1, la, J. 



(3" . Upperside : black. Fore wing with the following greenish or 

 bluish-white streaks and spots : cell with three transverse, very 

 oblique, broad streaks and two elongate spots near apex ; in the 

 type as described the outer two of the three streaks coalescent ; 

 broad streaks from base in interspaces la to 3 ; a series of four 

 rounded spots beyond apex of cell in interspaces 4, 5, 6 and 8, 

 followed by five short streaks that are outwardly truncate or 

 emarginate, in interspaces 4 to 8 ; lastly, a complete subterminal 

 series of comparatively large rounded spots. Hind wing with 

 similar greenish- or bluish-white streaks and spots as follows : a 

 broad curved streak in cell ; broad streaks from base in inter- 

 spaces 1 to 7, these streaks vary in length but invariably leave 

 a comparatively broad margin of the ground-colour beyond ; the 



streak in interspace 7 white, 

 that in interspace 1, and in 

 some specimens in interspace 

 2 also, with a large yellow 

 spot beyond the apex ; lastly, 

 a subterminal series of spots 

 some or all of which may 

 be absent, but when present 

 the posterior three always 

 somewhat lunular. Under- 

 side : fuliginous brown, paler 

 towards the apical area of 

 tore wing ; markings as on 

 the upperside, but duller and 

 less clearly denned. An- 

 tennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen black ; two spots 

 on the head, the thorax and 

 abdomen laterally, white ; 

 beneath : the thorax and ab- 

 domen white, the latter with 

 a medial and a lateral narrow 

 stripe. $ . Similar to the rf with similar markings : those on the 



TOL. II. 



Fig. 28. Papilio xenocles. 



