PAPILIO. 



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Papilio paris, 



Papilio paris, Liuuieus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 745 (17G7) ; Drury, 111. Exot. Eiit. i. pi. xii. 

 figs. },2 (1773) ; Douovan, Ins. China, pi. xxii. (1798) ; Gray, Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus. 

 i. p. 17 (1852). 



AchiUides paris, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 85; Gray, loc. cit. 



Male. Black, thickly sprinkled with green scales except ou the veins. Primaries traversed by a 

 yellowish-green band, not always clearly defined towards costa. Secondaries have a larj^e 

 blue patch beyond discoidal cell, the inner edge of this patch is curved and invades the cell, 

 and the outer edge is sinuous ; on abdominal margin above anal angle there is a reddish and 

 violet ring, often interrupted ; the space between these two marks is only sparingly powdered 

 with green, and is limited by yellowish-green irregular bands ; the costal area above and the 

 outer marginal area beyond blue patch is also clear of green scales. Fringes black, chequered 

 with white between the nervules, narrowly on primaries, but more broadly on secondaries. 

 Under surface : basal half of primaries black, as also is the outer marginal area, the intervening 

 space is whitish grey, tapering towards inner margin, and intersected by the black nervules 

 and internervular streaks ; secondaries black, basal half sprinkled with gre)ish scales ; sub- 

 marginal crescents reddish and violet. 



Female rather browner than the male, and the blue patch on secondaries is of less extent and 

 deeper in tint. 



Expanse, c? 98-130 millim., $ 117-130 millim. 



The blue patch varies in tint and is sometimes rather greenish than blue. 



This species has been placed in Ilarimala by Wood-Mason and de Niceville. 



An exceedingly common species in Western China. Specimens vary consider- 

 ably in size, the smaller examples being probably referable to a spring brood. 



Referring to this species in Sikkim, Mr. Elwes (T. E. S. 1888) says : — " The 

 commonest of the green Papilios in the low valleys, and taken up to 5000 

 feet. Settles on flower-heads and the damp sand in river-beds, and flies 

 rapidly up and down their banks. The female is seldom taken, but does not 

 differ from the male, except in its paler coloration." 



Distribution. India and China. 



Papilio gyas. (Plate XXXII. fig. 1, var.) 

 Papilio gy as, Westwood, Arc. Ent. i. p. 41, pi. xi. (1842). 

 Papilio hercules, Blanchard, Comptes Rendus, Ixxii. p. 809 (note) (1871). 

 Papilio sciron, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 192 (1890). 

 Debasagyas, Moore, Dec. New Ind. Ins. p. 283 (1888). 



" P. alls anticis subhamatis, posticis caudatis ; supra fuscis, margine obscuriore luteo submaculatis, 

 macula parva cterulea ad angulum ani ; subtus brunneis, medio pallidis lunulisque su bargenteis 

 notatis. 



" Expans. alar. unc. 4|. Habitat Assam. 



