70 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST, SOCIETY, Vol, XXVIII, 
P. podalirius, L. Seitz. Vol. 1°7 ¢. 
Much paler yellow than machaon. 2 black bands from costa to dorsum of 
forewing. 1 black band trave sing hindwing centrally to anal eyespot: tail 
long and straight continuation of hindwing. 
Two specimens of this were taken by Capt. Aldworth and Capt. Marshall at 
5,000 ft. at Suwarra above Mosul in the first half of July. 
The fact that oak, plum and other fruit-trees are food-plants of this butterfly 
explain its being found in the hills and not on the plain. 
The larva is thick, narrowed posteriorly, green with many dark spots and 
oblique yellow lateral lines. 
P. alexanor, E. Seitz. Vol. 1.7a is likely to occur in the highlands. It has 
a continuous yellow marginal band on forewing, a distinct black elongated 
discoidal spot on hindwing and the antennz tipped with yellow. 
Kane says its food-plants are ‘‘ Seseli montanum and other umbellifers.” 
Genus 2.—THAIS, Hb. 
T. cerisyi, Bdv. Sub.-sp. deyrollei, O!. Seitz. Vol. 1. 9d. 
Kry: Hindwing, interrupted dentations along terminal margin, three 
on each h.w. lengthened into tails. 
Antenne short. 
Upperside :—f. wing :-—ground colour very pale yellow with broad black 
patches along costa ; dark shadings at apex and terminal margin. 
ie Hindwing :—Interrupted dentation along terminal margin, and three on each 
wing lengthened into tails. A median series of small red spots and one larger 
costal one ringed with black. 
Expanse :—just over 2 inches. 
One, of large numbers seen migrating over open ground at Mosul at end of 
April or early May, was taken by Capt. T. Aldworth, and sent to the British 
Museum of Nat. History and there identified as this race of J. cerisyt 
“having 3 fairly well developed tails to each hindwing,” one recorded also 
from Tekrit by Stoneham. 
The larva is stout, dark, but varying much in colour, with numerous tuber- 
cles as in machaon, and 4 broad yellow longitudinal lines ; food-plant Aristolochia. 
Genus 3.—DORITIS, Fabr. 
D. apollinus, Herbst, Seitz. I-10c. 
On the forewing rather densely pencilled transversely on a grey ground, the 
3 being occasionally marked with a little red ; hindwing chalky white in fresh 
specimens, yellowish in worn ones, the dark border bearing reddish spots centred 
with blue. Q darker, stouter, pencilled also on the hindwing, here and there 
irrorated with red. Western and South Western districts of Asia Minor, transi- 
tional forms also in Syria and Mesopotamia. 
T'wo specimens were sent to the Society, taken by Licut.-Col. Watney about 
25 miles N. E. of Mosul at 1,000 feet where they were fairly common in fields 
in April 1920. 
(To be continued.) 
