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PAPILIONID^. 



I have received a considerable number of specimens of this form from 

 Chang-yang in Central China, and from various localities in Western China. 

 No variation of any importance is exhibited. 



In his " Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Sikkim " (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 1888, p. 434) Mr. Elwes remarks : — " MoUer gives the habitat of this species 

 (P. cloanthus) as from 2-4000 feet, and its occurrence as from April till 

 October, but I should consider it as rather a temperate than a tropical butterfly 

 having only seen it at about 6000 feet. Capt. Lang says in the N.VV. Hima- 

 layas it occurs from 5-7000 feet, and Doherty found it in Kumaon from 

 2-7000 feet. I saw it in Khasia at 6000 feet, flying on sunny days round 

 the tops of trees with very rapid flight, and hard to catch." 



Distribution. Himalayas ; Western and Central China. 



Papilio sarpedon. 



Papilio sarpedon, ILimxtens, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 747 (1767) ; Distantj Rhop. Malay, p. 359, 

 pi. xxxii. fig. 6 (1885) ; Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. p. 5, pi. i. fig. 9 (1886). 



Pujnlio teredon, Felder, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xiv. p. 305 (1864); Reise Nov. 

 Lep. i. p. 61 (1865). 



Dalchina teredon, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 143, pi. xlii. figs. 1 a, 6,(1881). 



" Mule and female. Wings above blackish; both wings crossed by a pale green discal fascia, which 

 on the anterior wings is narrowed, broken, and macular above the median nervules, and on 

 the posterior wings is narrowed and eloiigately angulated beneath the median nervure ; 

 posterior wings with a submarginal series of lunulate green spots and three narrow pale 

 greyish fringe-like spots at anal angle. Wings beneath paler than above ; posterior wings 

 liaviiig the base of the green fascia inwardly margined with a black and red spot ; a bhick 

 spot ontwardly margined with red occupying apex of cell, between which and the submarginal 

 green spots there is an irregular series of blackish spots which from cell to anal angle are 

 more or less marked with carmine-red. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings ; 

 legs more or less greyish. 



" Exp. wings, cf and J , 72 to 8.5 millim." {Distant, I. c.) 



Var. teredon. " Male and f-mide. Wack : fore wing with a medial row of enierald-groen spots 

 from the apex to the posterior margin, wliich are broader and (juadrato but not separated 

 hindward, the two lower spots also being of a bluish tint ; hind wing with a medial transverse 

 bluish-green band, the broad costal end of which is whitish, and a subnnirginal row of four 

 slender lunules. Underside cupreous brown, with glossy bands as al)ovo : bind wing with a 

 crimson-bordered black spot at the costal inner end of the band, and four similar lunular 

 spots from the ceil to below end of the band, and another spot at anal angle. 



" Kxjiansc, c? 3, ? 3^ inches. 



*• J.arva smooth, green, with a ])a]er lower lateral line, and a yellow dorsal band ending In a lateral 

 tubercular spot on fourth segment ; a pair of short tubercles on front and anal segments. 



