1£0 J. Wood-Mason — Description of a neiv Papilio, ^o. [No. 3, 



abruptly inwards, the first o£ these spots transversely elongated, extending 

 from vein to vein, and connected with the second, which is roundish and 

 itself connected with the discal band, the third oval, about one-third 

 the size of the second, and touching the discocellular veinlet, the fourth 

 twice the size of the third, in contact with the median vein and its two 

 last branches, the fifth rather smaller than the third, the sixth crescentic 

 and connected with the two above-mentioned large spots in the anal region ; 

 with six large diffused luteous blotches externally margined with black, 

 and increasing in size and depth of colour from the anterior to the inner 

 margin ; with the ground-colour between these blotches and the discal 

 black spots pure white ; with an increasing series of six marginal lunules, 

 between which and the wavy black margins of the luteous blotches the 

 ground-colour is white in the anterior and grey or greyish-white in the 

 jDosterior portion of the wings ; and with the incisures and the tails mar- 

 gined with lutescent. 



Head black with two white frontal bands ; collar with a luteous spot 

 on each side ; thorax above jet-black ornamented at the sides with long 

 grey setas, below cretaceous-white ; abdomen cretaceous-white with a taper- 

 ing dorsal black band and two lateral fuscous ones. 



Length of anterior wing 1-7 ; whence expanse = 3'5 inches. 



Hab. South Andaman. Two specimens, both males, obtained by Mr. 

 A. R. de Koepstorff. 



To mark its close relationship to P. Antiphates, I have called the 

 species P. Laestri/fjonum after the mythical people over whom Antiphates 

 is supposed to have reigned. It differs from its nearest ally in having the 

 upperside much blacker (the bands of the f orewing being broader, and the 

 first, second, and fifth of them with the marginal one extending to the inner 

 margin where they are all connected together by a very narrow black edg- 

 ing, and the disk of the hindwing mottled as it were by black and grey) and 

 a much greater extent of grey and more highly developed marginal and 

 submarginal lunules on the hind-wing ; in the abdomen being dorsally 

 banded with black and the thorax ornamented with grey setie, &c. 



P. S. — On the 17th Nov., after the above had been sent to press, the 

 fourth part of M. Oberthiir's work entitled ' E'tudes d' Entomologie' was 

 received in the Indian Museum, and in it I find the same species described 

 and figured under the name of P. JEpaminondas ; but, as it seems to me 

 not quite certain whether this name was actually published before mine, I 

 have left it to M. Oberthiir to effect the change of names that will become 

 necessary if the fourth part of his work should really have been issued to 

 the public before June, 1880. 



& MAY 1885 



