﻿250 The Philippine Journal of Science 1914 



RHOPALOCERA 



PAPILIONID^ 



Genus PAPILIO Doubleday 



Papilio Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lep. (1846), 1, 5. 



Papilio xuthus Linnaeus. 



PI. I, figs. 1-2, young larvas; fig. 3, full-grown larva; fig. 4, food plant. 



Japanese name, ageha. 



Papilio xuthus Linn., Syst. Nat. (1767), 1, 2, 751; Pryer, Rhop. 

 Nihon. (1886), 2, PI. 1, fig. 2 b, <$; Tokyo Zool. Mag. [Tokyo Dobut- 

 sugaku Zasshi (Jap.)] (May 15, 1891), 3, No. 31, PI. 2, fig. 1, 

 imago, xuthulus; fig. 2, imago, xuthus; fig. 3, larva 4th stage; fig. 

 4, larva 5th stage; fig. 5, pupa; Nawa, Insect World [Konchu. Sekai 

 (Jap.)] (1898), 2, 6, PI. I, transf.; Leech, Butterfl. China, Japan, 

 Corea (1892-1894), 2, 514; Matsumura, Jap. Injurious Insects 

 [Nihon Gaichuhen (Jap.)] (1899), 108, PI. 46, fig. 1, imago; fig. 2, 

 larva; Miyajima, Jap. Butterf. [Nihon Chorui Dzusetsu (Jap.)] 

 (1904), 72, PI. I, fig. 1, c?; Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1905), 28, 

 939, fig. 4, larva; Matsumura, Cat. Insect Jap. (1905), 1, No. 1, 1; 

 Matsumura, Thousand Insects of Japan [Nihon Senchu Dzukai 

 (Jap.)] (1907), 4, 62, PI. 63, fig. 1, 5; Seitz's Macrolep. of the 

 World, Faun. Pal. (1906), 1, 11, PI. 6a; Jordan, Seitz's Macrolep. 

 of the World, Faun. Indo-austral. (1909), 9, 48. 



Papilio xuthulus Brem., Bull. Acad. Petr. (1861), 3, 463 (spring form) ; 

 Brem., Lep. Ost.-Sib. (1864), 4, PI. I, fig. 2; Pryer, Rhop. Nihon 

 (1886), PI. I, fig. 2a; Seitz's Macrolep. of the World, Faun. Pal. 

 (1906), 1, 11, PI. 6a. 



Papilio xanthus Linn., Rothsch. Nov. Zool. (1895), 2, 278; Moore, 

 Lep. Ind. (1903), 6, 45. (—P. xuthus Linn.) 



The full-grown larva figured (Plate I, fig. 3) was taken in 

 September, 1900, at Kobe, Settsu Province, on karatachi {^Egle 

 sepiaria DC). No record was kept of the date upon which 

 the imago emerged from the pupa resulting from this larva, 

 but I have bred the species on many occasions from similar 

 larvae taken chiefly on JEgle sepiaria on which it is very common ; 

 therefore, I am weA acquainted with it. The karatachi shrub 

 is much used in the environs of Tokyo for ornamental hedges, 

 and is very useful for that purpose because of its spines. I 

 have also found the larva feeding on i>ni-za)isJid (Xanthoxylon 

 schinnifolium S. and Z.), which is also mentioned by Pryer as 

 a food plant. Leech, 6 quoting Graeser, states that the larva 

 feeds on Phellodendron amitrense (Japanese name, kiicada) in 

 Amurland, that it is greenish black, with irregular milk-white 



* Berl. ent. Zcitschr. (1888), 32, 62. 



