490 



PAPILIONID.?:. 



gradually increases in width to its rounded apes, and between it and the anal angle there arc 



two shorter tails. Fringes yellowish. 

 Female. Similar to the male, but the outer margin of primaries is rounder in contour, and all the 



yellow lines are duller in colour. The crimson band on secondaries is often replaced by a 



pale 2)inkish one. 

 Expanse, S 94-100 millim., $ 98-106 millim. 



Appears to be fairly common in June and July at Huang-mu-chang, Chia- 

 kou-ho, Ta-chien-lu, Wa-ssu-kow, and Wa-shan in Western China. 



A. tJiaidina is best distinguished from the Himalayan A. Jidderdalii, 

 Atkinson, by its smaller size and the greater breadth of the tails ; the lines 

 traversing the central area of primaries are straighter, and the crimson band 

 on secondaries is narrower. 



Genus LUEHUORFIA. 



Luehdorfia, Criiger^ Verh. Ver. Hamb. iii. p. 128 (1878) ; Scliatz & Rober, Exot. 

 Schmett. p. 50, pi. iii. (1892). 



"Die Palpen sind klirzer als bci Thais, aber liingcr wie bei Dorifis, nicht iibcr den Kopf hervor- 

 ragcnd, 3-gliedrig, mit steifen Haaren besetzt. Fiihler schwach gebogen, mit allmiihlich 

 verdickter Kolbe ; Vorderrand der Vorderfliigel ausgeschweift ; Subcostalader .5-astig, mit 2 

 Asten vor dem Zellcnde : 0. D. C. klein, aber deuilich vorhanden. 



" Hinterfliigel mit einfacher nach innen gebogcner Priicostalader und deutlicher Priicostalzelle. 



" Fiisse mit stark verdickten Schenkclm ; Klauen cinfach, fast gerade. 



" iS Analklappen mit dichtem, braunem Filze bekleidet." 



Luehdorfia japonica. (Plate XX XIII. figs. 2 ? , 1 var. ? .) 



Luehdorfia japonica, Leech, Kntomologist, xxii. p. 25, pi. i. fig. 1 (1889). 

 Luehdorfia pnziloi, Pryer, Khop. Nilion. p. 5, pi. i. fig. 10 (1886). 



Expanse 70 millim. Primaries i)ale yellow, black at l)ase and external margin, with three trans- 

 verse obli(|uo black bands on the disc, and one parallel with outer margin, with which the 

 third oblique band is united below the middle ; a black dash from the costa between first and 

 second and second and third oblique bands. Secondaries pale yellow, with a broad black band 

 along the inner margin, and another, oblique and interrujrfed, on the disc, beyond which is a 

 black costal dash : the outer third black, enclosing five blue spots, and edged externally with 

 some orange patches ; a conspicuous crimson blotch above anal angle. Pringo^s chequered 

 black and white. Under surface as above, but the crimson colour assumes a band-like form, 

 traversing the wing parallel with the outer margin from anal angle to second subcostal 

 nervulo ; the orange on outer margin also forms a C()ni])lete band. 



This species was erroneously referred to as L. puziloi by Mr. Pryer in his 

 catalogue of the ' Lcpidoptera of Japan,' and subsequently by myself in my 

 paper on tlie " Lcpidoptera of Japan and Corea," P. Z. S. 1887, when I did not 



