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PAPILIONID^. 



spring form, and differs principally from telmona in the greater amount of 

 black at base of wing, in having additional black markings on the disc, and in 

 possessing a black interrupted submarginal band. 



Graeser (Berl. eut. Zeit. 1888, p. 63) states that he met with both broods, 

 the first being on the wing in April and May, and the second in Jvily, in a 

 clearing in the forest at Poltafka, about 100 versts south of Vladivostock, near 

 the Corean frontier. 



According to Dr. Staudinger, the brothers Uorries found the first brood of 

 S. telamon in the Sutschan district on the l4th of May, when the specimens 

 were rather worn ; larvse, mostly full-grown, were obtained on the 20th of June, 

 and the second brood was on the wing from the 6th to the 20th of July. 



The second generation of larvae were full-grown by the middle of August. 

 The species was plentiful, but only occurred in one locality where there had 

 formerly been some Chinese huts. 



He states that the larva, which feeds on Aristoloclna, is from 37-39 millim. 

 long, and similar in form to that of a Thais. The Avhole body is covered 

 W'itli warts emitting short thick hairs, and there are conical warts bearing tufts 

 of rather longer hairs on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments. The 1st segment 

 has a long haired projection on each side and retractile horns on the dorsal 

 surface, as in Papilio niachaon. In colour it is black, witli six rows of small 

 round brownish spots on which the warts are placed ; the dorsal rows of spots 

 are the largest. 



Pupa 18-22 millim. in length; secured by a silken girdle as in Tliais. 

 Dirty brown streaked with darker; there are two short projections from the 

 anterior end, a row of sharp thorn-like projections along the back, the first 

 two are double ; the posterior end is truncate. 



The examples of the second or summer brood of S. telamon, from Amurland, 

 agree in most cliaractors with the specimens met with in numbers by Herz to 

 tlic north of Pekin. They are, however, rather larger, and the black markings 

 in the male are broader and more numerous. The females especially are 

 darker than Chinese specimens, and some of tliem are so dark tliat they might 

 be described as ])lack witli small partly obscured yellow transverse markings. 

 Tlie largest male measures 67 millim. and the largest female 64 millim. in 

 expanse; whilst the smallest exam])le of each sex expands only 56 and 

 ') 1 iiiilliin. respectively, but the male average expansion is over 60 millim. 



Di-, Staudinger has named the form to whicli the above remarks refer mw. 



