PAPILlONm^. . 39 



Papilio (Eques, pt.), Latreille, Cuvier's Reg. Anim. iii. p. 549 (1817) ; id. I.e. v. p. 375 (1829). 

 Papilio (sect. 51), Felder, Verb. Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, pp. 314, 362. 

 Papilio (group 5, pt.), Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 272 (1895). 



Imago. — Forevnng triangular ; costa sliglitlj arched, exterior margin oblique 

 and slightly uneven ; cell somewhat fusiform ; upper discocel hilar shortest ; first 

 subcostal branch emitted at one-third and second at one-fourth before end of the 

 cell. Eindicing short, broad ; costa very oblique, exterior margin sinuous, and with 

 a moderately long tail which is broad at the base and acute at the tip ; cell broad ; 

 first subcostal emitted at nearly half before end of the cell, second branch straight 

 at the base. Body short, thick ; thorax and head densely, and abdomen slightly, 

 pilose ; femora densely pilose ; antennae short, the club very stout. 



Larva. — Adult ; smooth ; anterior segments somewhat thickened ; furnished 

 with two retractile tentacula on the anterior segment. 



Pupa. — Head obtusely cleft in front ; thorax laterally angled, and with a dorsal 

 obtusely-pointed projection. 



TrpE. — P. Machaon. 



PAPILIO ASIATICA (Plate 481, fig. 1, larvw smdi pupw, la, b, ^, Ic, ? ; Plate 482, fig. 1, <?). 



Papilio Machaon, var. Asiatica, Menetries, Enum. Corp. Anim. Mus. Petrop. Ins. i. p. 70 (1855). 



Doberty, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, p. 136. Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 205. 



Alpheraky, Rom. Mem. Lep. v. p. 60 (1889). Heyne, in Kuhl, Gros-o-Schmett. p. 694 (1895). 

 Papilio Asiatica, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 258. Butler, id. I.e. 1886, p. 377, ib. Ann. 



Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 205. 

 Papilio Machaon, Kollar, Hugel's Kaschmir, iv. pt. 2, p. 406 (1844). Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepal, p. 6, 



pi. 3, fig. 1 (1846). Hutton, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1847, p. 47. Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. 



E. L C. i. p. Ill (1857). Lang, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1861, p. 101. Stoliczka, Verb. Z. B, Ges. 



Wien. 1866, p. 866. 

 Papilio Machaon Sphijrus (pt), Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 275 (1895). 

 Papilio Machaon Sphyrus, de Niceville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 592. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black. Cilia alternated with yellow. Forewing with 

 the base densely irrorated with yellow scales ; a pale yellow outwardly-oblique bar 

 crossing outer third of the cell, a similar bar within apex of the cell, an inner-discal 

 oblique ti'ansverse macular band widening posteriorly, the portions being broadly 

 divided by the black veins, followed by a submarginal row of small more or less 

 oblong spots, the outer-discal black area being medially-traversed more or less 

 by minute yellow scales. Hindwing with the black abdominal border speckled with 

 yellow scales, and clothed with long yellowish-grey hairs ; a broad yellow inner 

 band divided by narrow black veins, the portions outside apex of the cell being 

 sometimes small and disconnected, followed by a submarginal row of broad yellow 



