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Kagoshima, in the Province of Satsuma. This was accidentally referred to as 

 a male in the original description. 



This species, together with F. hathycles, is referable to the genus Zetides, 

 Hiibner, as characterized by Moore, Lep. Ceyl. p. 144. 



Papilio bianor. 



Papilio bianor, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. ciii. fig. C (1777). 



Papilio dehaanii, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xiv. pp. 323, 371 (1864). 



Papilio alliacmon, de I'Orza, Lep. Jap. p. 9 (18G9). 



Papilio bianor, var japonica, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. ix. p. 50, note (1866). 



" Le fond des ailes ea dessus est d'un brua obscur, arec des atomes verts luisants, qui y soiit 

 parseraes. En dessoiis les ailes ne different en couleur ni en dessein de la Figure U \_P. pans']. 

 La Figure que nous donnons ici est faite d'apros I'original qui so trouve dans la collection de 

 Mr. le Ministre E. F. Alberti ; mon neveu, Mr. Anthony van Reuffelaar Willemfz, possede 

 pareillement un de CCS beaux Papillons, qui I'a recu, parnii p lusieurs autres insectes, de la 

 Chine." {Cramer, I. c.) 



Male. Black, powdered with green scales, thickly so on outer area of the primaries and on the inner 

 half of secondaries ; there is a broad patch of black velvety pile on the first and second median 

 nervules, the submedian nervure, and in the submedian internpace ; the third median nervule 

 has a narrower patch, and there is a black streak in each interspace above and also between 

 the second and third nervules ; fringes white. Secondaries have the costal area suffused with 

 bright blue and a submarginal series of connected blue lunules followed by reddish ones ; the 

 lower horn of the fourth and the upper horn of the fifth blue lunules are prolonged nearly to 

 the end of the tail ; the outer margin is sinuate and the fringes of each sinus are white. 

 Under surface : primaries are blackish on basal half and greyish on outer half ; the venation 

 is black and there are black rays between the veins : a white patch at inner angle : secondaries 

 blackish, the basal half sprinkled with ochreous scales ; there is a series of seven reddish 

 submarginal lunules edged internally with mauve ; the third nervule is bordered on each side 

 with blue throughout the length of the tail ; the seventh lunule is often replaced by a large 

 reddish patch enclosing a round spot of the ground-colour. 



Female. Primaries fuliginous grey, powdered with bronzy-green scales ; secondaries black, sprinkled 

 with bronzy -green scales on the basal half, and suffused with bluish-violet on the costal area ; 

 the submedian lunules are reddish, with the exception of the first two, which are bluish, and 

 sometimes the lower lunules are tinged with this colour. 



Expanse, S 120-160 millim., $ 126-1G6 millim. 



The above descriptions refer to the sexes of the summer brood of P. biafior 

 from China. The individuals of the spring brood from the same country, 

 which do not seem to have been previously noticed, are smaller, ranging in 

 expanse from 97 to 114 millim. in the male, and from 100 to 118 millim. in 

 the female. Cramer's figure appears to represent a female specimen of the 

 summer brood. 



