THE 
JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
THE ARISTOLOCHIAS OF PARA (BRAZIL). 
By Rev. A. Mites Moss, M.A., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 
Wits Descriptive Notes spy Spencer Le M. Moore. 
(PLATE 535.) 
THE remarks which I wish to make upon the Aristolochias 
of Para necessitate a short entomological introduction, for it wa 
in my search for caterpillars that I was led to bestow attention 
upon this particularly interesting genu 
Comparatively little iy their meeene with certain kinds 
of food plants is known of the majority of species of the large 
lepidopterous genus Papilio inhabiting the American epeaia 
One great division of this genus, representing sixty or 
species, bears the distinctive ne « Aristolochia Swallowtails,” 
for, with certain observed preferences on the part of the butterflies 
for particular species of Aristolo Ta it is the leaves, stems and 
seed capsules of these plants mbic are employed as the exclusive 
pabulum of their larvae. There are at least twelve Aristolochia 
Papilios in the immediate viekaley of Parad, which, during a 
for future identification. I could only discover of 
seven out of some nine or ten ae Sigh so Snot the e identity of the 
remainder aa yet be fixed with any certai 
foun 
All of these species I managed to inxhuos e to grow in my small 
JournaL or Borany.—Vou. 53. [Janvary, 1915.) 8B 
