540 



PAPILIONID^. 



" Alis posticis sinuato-dentatis spathulato-caudatis, fusco cinereis, abdomine subtus lunulisque 

 quiaque ad marginem posticum alarum posticarum ochraceis." (Kluc/, I. c.) 



Var. mencius, Felder=P. ahinous, var., Gray. " Variety. Male (pi. iv. fig. 3). The primary 

 wings browiiisli black glossed with purple, having streaks of darker colour between the 

 nervules and the discoidal cell. The secondary wings brownish black, having the base glossed 

 with purple, with four lunes along the outer margin of a red colour with scattered black 

 scales. 



" The under surface of the primary wings is pale brownish black, with streaks of darker colour 

 between the nervules and in the discoidal cell. The under surface of the secondary wings is 

 deep brownish black, with five rosy-red lunes along the outer margin ; and at the anal angle 

 there is an abbreviated broad band of rosy red which is paler in part. 



^'■Female (pi. iv. fig. 2). The primary wings pale hair-brown with a purplish gloss, and the 

 anterior and outer margins brownish black ; the discoidal cell and the spaces between the 

 nervules are marked with black streaks. 



" The secondary wings pale hair-brown with a satiny gloss at the base, Avhile posteriorly they arc 

 black with a velvety ajjpearance ; five narrow lunes of pinkish white, with scattered black 

 scales, run along the outer margin, those towards the anterior angle decreasing in size. 



" The under surface of the primary wings is pale hair-brown slightly tinged with purple, with the 

 streaks as seen on the upperside. The under surface of the secondary wings is entirely black, 

 more or less with a velvety appearance ; six rosy-red lunes are placed along the outer 

 margin, and at the anal angle there is a large spot of the same colour. 



" In Collection (Brit. Mus.) from Northern China. 



" It is called ' Chentih ' by the Chinese." {Gray, 1. c.) 



" Alis nigricantibus, posticis caudis longis, per totam longitudinem sequilatis, maculis submargi- 

 nalibus erythrinis, in pagina superiore (juatuor obsoletioribus, in pagina inferiore quinque 

 lunajformibus, in femina dimidio basali late olivaceo-fusco. 



" In coUibus prope Ningpo. Geographica mutatio P. alcino'i, Klug, japonici, cujus typica specimina 

 e Museo Leydensi et Borolinensi ante nos habemus ; differt non solum colore et formatione 

 lunularum in alis posticis, sed etiam alis magis elongatis ideoque angustioribus ct caudis ad 

 basin vix attenuatis. Cel. Gray utrumque sexum 1. c. optima figura cxpressit." (Felder, 

 I c.) 



Var. spathatus, I5utler. "Possibly a seasonal form of P. ahinous; the latter species, however, 

 was not obtained in Niphon by Mr. Maries ; ho obtained shattered males and a single fine 

 female in Yesso ; it is therefore more probable that this is a local representative of 

 /'. ahinous. It differs in its considerably greater size, much longer and more spatulate tails, 

 in the heavier black borders and veins on the female, in the much obscured red submarginal 

 lunules on the upjjcr surface of the male secondaries, and the broader and dingier submarginal 

 curved spots on tlie female secoudaries. Expanse of wings, male, 4 inches 1 line ; female, 

 4 inches 10 lines. 



" 'J liis is a commoner species than P. alcitious, wliich (owing to the fact that 

 Klug erroneously figures its female as tliat sex of his species) it generally 

 rej)rescnts in collections. 1\ alcinous, female, agrees with the male in size 

 an<l form." {Bullcr, I. c.) 



