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Pupa green, with lateral and dorsal longitudinal yellowish streaks. Feeds on Cinnamomeum." 

 (Moore, I. c.) 



Common throughout Central and Southern Japan, and Pratt and Krichel- 

 dorlF obtained it in most of the places in which they collected in China. It 

 has an exceedingly rapid flight, but is fond of settling on flowering shrubs, 

 and on wet places on roads, when its capture may be eflected. There are 

 several broods in the year, and the butterfly is on the wing almost throughout 

 the summer. 



In Japan the individuals of the first brood are usually smaller than those 

 occurring later in the year. The transverse band varies in width and is 

 more distinctly interrupted in some specimens than in others. Mr. Butler 

 (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vii. p. 133) records P. teredon, Felder, from 

 Nikko in Central Japan ; this is the Ceylon form of the species, and, according 

 to Moore's figui-e, only difl"ers from typical sarpedon in the narrower band, and 

 in having the anal angle of secondaries more produced. 



The species is also exceedingly variable in China. Some specimens agree 

 with examples from Japan, while others have all the usual bluish markings 

 replaced by yellowish green. A common form of variation is the more or less 

 complete absence of the bluish central band on secondaries ; an extreme 

 example of this form is figured in the ' Transactions of the London Entomo- 

 logical Society,' 1 889, pi. vii. fig. 2. An intermediate form has been described 

 by M. Honrath as var semifasciatus : — " Die Hinterfliigel haben statt der 

 Mittelbinde nur den grossen weissen Vorderrandflecken und daran nur eine, 

 besonders auf der Oberseite ganz schwache Andeutung eines zweiten 

 Fleckons." {Honrath, Ent. Nach. 1888, p. 161.) 



Pryer says that the larva feeds on the evergreen Machilus thunhergii, and 

 that it closely resembles the young leaves in colour. 



Distribution. Continental India, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, Penang, Perak, 

 Malacca, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines, Celebes, Amboina, Aru Islands, 

 New Guinea, Formosa, Cachar, China, and Japan. 



Papilio bathycles. 



Papilio bathycles, Zinken-Sommer, Nova Acta Ac. Nat. Cur. xv. p. 157, pi. xiv. figs. 6, 7 

 (1831); Horsfield & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. lU (1857); Distant, 

 Rhop. Malay, p. 362, pi. xxxii. fig. 2, ^ (1886). 



" Male. Wings above black, -with the following pale green markings : — Anterior wings with five 



