422 



scales, except the inferior and posterior sides of the humerus, which 

 are granular. 



The ground colour of the upper parts is greyish or brownish, 

 darkest along the margins of the vertebral band ; a broad yellowish 

 or yellow dorsal band reaches from the occipital shield to the tail, 

 where it is gradually lost. The lower parts are whitish. In one of 

 the two specimens, the sides, the belly, and the lower part of the tail 

 are longitudinally lined with blackish. 



inches, lines. 



Distance between the tympanum and the extre- 



mity of the snout 0 5| 



Distance between the tympanum and the vent . . 1 4 



Length of the tail 4 0 



Distance between the extremity of the snout and 



the anterior margin of the orbit 0 2| 



Distance between the anterior angles of the orbit 0 2£ 



Length of the fore-leg 0 8 



of the hind-leg 1 3 



9. Descriptions of Butterflies from the Collection of 

 Mr. Wallace. By W. C. Hewitson. 



(Annulosa, Pis. LXVI. LXVTI.) 

 Papiliontd^e. 



1. Papilio paradoxa, var. (PL LXVII. figs. 1, 2, 3, and 

 PI. LXVI. fig. 4.) 



Zelima paradoxa, Zinken Sommer, pl. 15. 



Papilio paradoxus, Westw. Orient. Ent. pl. 9. 



Papilio telearchus, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. ii. n. s. pl. 6. 



Upper side of male (fig. 1) dark brown ; both wings with a sub- 

 marginal band of white spots ; anterior wing with its outer half glossed 

 with blue ; two spots within the cell, one near the costal margin 

 and one near the costal margin beyond the middle, light blue. 



Under side of a uniform rufous-brown, with the submarginal spots 

 as above. 



Female (fig. 2) rufous-brown ; both wings with a submarginal 

 band of white spots as in the male. Anterior wing with its outer half 

 dark brown glossed with blue ; a longitudinal ray and two spots of 

 white within the cell ;-a transverse curved band of hastate white spots 

 tinted with blue beyond the middle ; two rays of dirty white forming 

 a triangle near the inner margin ; the margin itself of the same 

 colour. Posterior wing with a loop-ray of white within the cell, and 

 similar rays between the nervures, each ray having at its termination 

 a lunular spot also white ; the outer margin spotted with white ; 

 under side as above, except that there is no blue. 



