1895.] L. de Niceville & Dr. L. Martin — Butterflies rf Sumatra. 521 



592. Papilio (FJuploeopsis) penomimus, Martin. 



P. penomimus, Martin, Einigo neue Tagschmctterlinge von Nordost-Sumatra 

 (Munich), pt. 1, p. 2, n. 2 (1895). 



This butterfly, though it has the fades of the species included in 

 the dissimilis group (subgenus Chilasa), may belong to the paradoxa 

 group (subgenus Euploeopsis), as it has the hindwing at the termination 

 of the upper subcostal nervule produced, that being a characteristic 

 feature of the species of the latter group. P. penomimus reminds one 

 somewhat of P. ramaceus, Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loncl., 1872, 

 p. 95, pi. v, fig. 3, from Borneo, which species, however, is placed by 

 Rothschild under P. leucothoe, Westwood. It is very rare in the forests 

 of the plains and on the outer hills, occurs near Selesseh, at Bekantschan, 

 and at Bandar Quala in Serdang from January to March and again in June. 

 Dr. Martin bred it from some larvas found by Herr 0. Puttfarcken 

 at Bandar Quala in Serdang in May, 1894. They feed on a low shrub 

 in the forest called by the Malays " Dahoen Laksah," are velvety green 

 and deep indigo blue, with round lateral red spots, and short fleshy 

 tubercles. The pupa is similar to that of P. btttleri, Janson, being sus- 

 pended by a black girth to a stalk of the food-plant, the three posterior 

 abdominal segments greatly flattened on the side touching the stick. 

 As the stalk was still green, the pupa also was mostly green with 

 brown and white markings. The imago emerged in 16 davs. 



From what I can gather from Mr. Rothschild's paper on Papilios, 

 the three last named species all belong to P. paradoxus, Zinken-Sommer, 

 sub-species telesicles, Felder. Mr. Rothschild's collection appears to 

 contain only three males and one female of the group from Sumatra, 

 of which he enumerates the female as P. paradoxus telesicles, Felder, 

 (r 2 ), 9 -ab. daja, Rothschild. He does not say what his males are. 

 When he wrote his paper Dr. Martin's description of both sexes of 

 P. penomimus had not reached him. Dr. Martin writes to me that 

 after examining Dr. Staudinger's collection at Dresden, he considers 

 that the three species we have enumerated above are all one, and that 

 in Sumatra it is trimorphic in the female. What he has described as 

 the male of P. penomimus is an error, all his specimens of that species 

 being females. Rothschild names Distant's figure in Rhop. Malay., pi. 

 xxviia, fig. 6, male " {rfi), ab. distauti" ; and D'stant's figure pi. xxvii, 

 fig. 6, female, " (« 2 ), ab. neptictda." As regards P. xnigma, Wallace, 

 Rothschild records it as " (g 2 ), c?-ab. tenigma, Wallace." 



593. Papilio (Euplojopsis) jegialus, Distant. 



P. telutinus, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xvi, 

 p. 343 (1885). 



Grose Smith as caunus. Wallace as caunus. Butler as velutinus. 



