434 Elvves & de Niceville— i^5^ of the Lepidopterous [No. 5, 



127. Papilio (Ghilasa) clytia. 

 P. clytia, Linnseus, Sjst. Nat., ed. x, p. 479, n. 125 (1758). 

 A single male. In ' The Lepidoptera of Ceylon ' Mr. Moore gives 

 the P. dissimilis of Linnaeus as a distinct species, but Mr. Distant pro- 

 bably more correctly unites them under the name of P. clytia. Collec- 

 tors in the East should make great efforts to breed this species or P- 

 panope from eggs laid in captivity from a known female ; the results will 

 probably be interesting. These species, however, do not deposit their 

 eggs readily when under restraint, Mr. de Niceville having made many 

 attempts to induce them to do so, but always unsuccessfully. 



*128. Papilio (Laertias) polytes. 

 P. polytes, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, p. 460, n. 7 (1758). 

 P. pammon, Moore, Proc. Zool, Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 840. 



A single male from the hills. 



129. Papilio (Laertias) pitmanii, n. sp., PL XX, Fig. 1, ^ . 



S IJPPERSIDE, both wings black. Forewing sprinkled with golden 

 scales, which assume the form of four streaks iu the cell ; two small 

 patches of thickly placed scales at the anal angle divided by the sub- 

 median nervure in continuation of the discal band in the hind wing. 

 Sindioing with a discal series of seven creamy- white spots between the 

 veins forming a macular band, rapidly increasing from the first to the 

 third which is the largest, the fourth longest and narrowest, the fifth, 

 sixth and seventh subequal, the sixth slightly tinged with ochreous, the 

 seventh entirely ochreous, with a small round deep ochreous spot below 

 it above the anal angle. Underside, hoth wings duller black, the golden 

 irroration sparser, entirely absent broadly from the inner margin of the 

 forewing, which bears a quadrate somewhat diffused white spot in the 

 submedian interspace at the anal angle, with similar, but smaller and 

 more diffused, spots in pairs in the three interspaces above in one 

 specimen. Hindwing with the discal macular band as above but pure 

 ■white throughout instead of creamy becoming ochreous at the anal angle 

 as on the upperside, a marginal series of ochreous and white lunules 

 between the veins, with white internervular lunules on the margin. 



Expanse : <J , 3-4 to 3-5 inches. 



Allied to P. polytes, Linnaaus, the forewing on the upperside lacking 

 the white spots between the veins on the margin, the hindwing having 

 the discal band broader in the middle and placed nearer the margin, and, 

 conspicuously, in the seventh spot being ochreous, and the sixth more 

 or less tinged with that colour. On the underside the discal band of the 

 hindwing being continued on to the forewing at the anal angle, and the 

 marginal lunules being ochreous and white instead of deep ferrugiuoua 



