PAPILIOXIX.E. 179 



Trans. Linn. Soe. Loud. 1865, p. 43. Moore, Proe. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1865, p. 756 ; ib. 1860, 

 p. 356. Dnice, ib. 1874, p. 109. Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1877, p. 553. 



Aernauta Dlphihis, Berge, Schmett. p. 108, pi. 36, fig. 1, ? (1842). 



Papilio (Menelaides) Dijihi/us, Swinlioe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1884, p. 512. 



Papilio Aristolochia; var. Dipliilus, Distant, Rhop. Malayans, p. 337, pi. 31, fig. 6, 7 (1885). 



Menelaides Diji/iilue, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1885, p. 145, ib. 1886, p. 433. Moore, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, p. 51. 



Papilio AJamas, Zinken-Sommer, Nova Acta Acad. Cur. xv. p. 144 (1831). 



Polydorus Thoas, Swainson, Zool. Ulustr. ii. pi. 100, ^ (1833). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black or fuliginous-black ; cilia fuliginous. Forewivg 

 with pale fuliginous oi' greyisli-fuliginous streaks bordering the outer veins, these 

 streaks terminating uniformly at some distance before the exterior margin ; similar 

 pale short streaks also extending from within end of the cell. JlhuJirlng with a 

 lower-discal series of three, or four, white or ochreous-white spots, which are usually 

 small and short and disposed in a curve at some distance beyond end of the cell ; at 

 the anal angle between the lower median and submedian is a contiguous more or less 

 irregular-shaped spot, this latter spot being more or less elongatedly-ocellate with a 

 black centre and of a suUied-white or crimson colour, or is whitish anteriorly and 

 crimson posteinorly ; beyond is a submarginal series of five dusky-scaled luuules, 

 which are either dull or bright crimson and sometimes dull ochreous. Underside. 

 Forewing duller fuliginous-black ; the vein-streaks much paler. Eindwiug intense 

 black ; the discal white spots as on upper.side, and with six submarginal pale or 

 bi'ight crimson spots larger and broader than on upperside, the upper spot being 

 placed in the costal interspace ; the anal spot also bright crimson. Thorax and 

 abdomen above black ; front of head, palpi, collar', sides of thorax beneath and 

 abdomen bright crimson ; abdomen beneath with black segmental bands ; antennte 

 and legs black. 



Female. Upperside duller coloured. Forewing olivescent fuliginous-black ; the 

 vein-streaks less prominent and duller fuliginous. Uindwing olivescent-fuliginous 

 basally, black externally ; the discal white spots, positioned as in the male, are 

 similar in shape but somewhat larger and broader; the submarginal lunules also 

 larger, paler and duller coloured. Underside similar to the male. 



Expanse, S ? 3 to 4 inches. 



Wet-season form (Plate 442, fig. 1, ^, la, ? , lb, c?, Ic, ? ). 



Menelaides Ceylonica, Moore, Lap. of Ceylon, i. p. 151, pi. 57j fig. 2, J', 2a, b, larua a-nd pupa (1881). 

 Papilio Viphilus, var. C. Gray, Gatal. Lep. B. M. i. p. 10. 



Male. Upperside brighter and darker coloured than in the dry-season form. 

 Forewing with the vein-streaks broader and paler. Hindiving with the discal series 

 of white spots elongated and extending from outer edge of the cell, the upper one 



