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" Lu Shan mountains, province of Kiuldang, China. 

 " One sp." {Buthr, I. c.) 



Gray's figure of F. ahbion is too highly coloured. The differences claimed 

 for mariesi are of a very unimportant character ; there are indications of the 

 submarginal black band in the type of this form, which was taken at the same 

 time and place as a series labelled alehion from Kiukiang in the National 

 Collection. 



The submarginal area is in some specimens of P. alehion suffused with 

 blackish. 



Mr. Pratt failed to meet w^ith this species at Kiukiang, and I have not 

 received it from any of the other places in China visited by my collectors. 



This and the three preceding species are referable to the genus Pazala, 

 Moore *, the type of which is P. glycerion. Gray. 



Fapilio cloanthus. (Plate XXXII. fig. 2 var.) 



Papilio cloanthus, Westwood, Arc. Ent. p. A2, pi. xi. fig. 2 (18i5). 



"P. alis elougatis, anticis apice acutis, posticis caudatis ; nigris, fascia media communi subnuda 

 argenteo-virescenti, versus apicem anticarum in maculis 4 divisa, posticis mauclis submar- 

 ginalibus concoloribus. 



"Expans. alar. unc. 3|. Habitat in partibus septentrionalibus Indiaj orientalis. 



" The wings above are almost black, the centre marked with a very broad fascia, common to each, 

 of a whitish-green tint, but almost transparent. The extremity of this bar is broken in tbe 

 apical half of the fore wings into four patches of unequal size, the first divided transversely, 

 and the second longitudinally by the veins. The hind wings are moreover ornamented with 

 four unequal-sized patches of similar colour, and the incisions between the tail and anal angle 

 are edged with white. 



" The underside is paler brown, with similar silvery-green semitransparent spots. In addition to 

 which the base of all the wings is also slightly green, and the fore wings have a pale line 

 near to the outer margin ; near the base of the hind wings are also three small and slender 

 red lunules edged with black. At the extremity of the discoidal cell arc also several black 

 spots edged with dull pinkish red, a similar spot is at the anal angle, and another at the side 

 of the first green patch. The body beneath is pale greyish green. The abdomen whitish 

 with a black bar on each side." ( Watwood, I. c.) 



As the Chinese specimens do not quite correspond with Indian examples 

 of P. cloanthus I describe them as a local race of that species under the name 



Yar. clymenus, var. nov. (Plate XXXII. fig. 2.) Larger than the type, expanding over 100 

 millim. in both sexes. The green markings are more restricted and distinctly interrupted by 

 the neuration ; the median nervure is black instead of whitish as in the type. 



* Xew Ind. Lep. Ins. p. 283 (1&88). 



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