LEPIDOPTEKA INDIGA. 



Sub-family PAPILIOXINiE {continued). 



Genus ZETIDES. 



Zdideit, Hlibnev, Verz. bek. Schmett-.. p. 83 (1816). Moore, L3p. of Ceylon, i. p. Hi (1881). Kiiby, 



Allen's Nat. Hist. Butt. ii. p. 277 (1896). 

 Papilio (part), Doubletlay and Hewitson. 



Pafhi/sa (part), Eeakirt, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. iii. p. 503 (1861). 

 Papilio (sect. 27, subs^^ct. c, d, e), Felder, Verb. Z. B. Ges. Wien. pp. 305, 350 (1861). 

 Papilio (group 3G, pt. et 37), Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. pp. 429, 446 (189-5). 



Imago. — Male. Foreioing elongatedly triangular ; costa arched, exterior margin 

 concave in tbe middle, slightly sinuous ; cell long and broad; first subcostal branch 

 at one-sixth, before end of the cell and anastomosed to the costal, second branch at 

 one-third between the first and end of cell ; discocellulars slightly oblique, upper 

 longest. Hiiidwing triangular, broad, short, and slightly produced hindward ; 

 exterior margin scalloped (and in some \Yith a short blunt or slightly spatular tail) ; 

 abdominal margin folded over ; when open displaying a longitudinal dense woolly 

 scent organ. Bodi/ woolly ; antenna comparatively short, club short and spatular. 

 Sexes alike. 



Larva. — Smooth; anterior segments from the head to the fifth increasing in 

 size, and then gradually tapering to the end ; a pair of short pointed spines on 

 the second and anal segment, and a pair of short nodular spines on the fourth 

 segment. 



PoPA. — Broad anteriorly; thorax with a dorsal forward-projecting frontal 

 process. 



Type. — Z. Eurypylus. 



ZETIDES JASON (Plate .167, fig. 1, larva a.nd jmpa ; la, b, ^, Ic ?). 



Papilio Jason, Linnasus, Syst. Nat, ed. x. p. 485 (1758) ; id. ed. xii. p. 752 (1767); id. Mus. Liul. 

 Ulr. p. 210 (176-1). Esper, Ausl. S.-.hmett. pl. 58, fig. 5, S (1796). de Niccville, Journ. As. 

 Soc. Bengal, 1899, p. 224. 

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