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PAPILIONID.E. 



and number in both sexes. In some specimens there are but the faintest 

 possible traces of them, and in others they are entirely obliterated. In one 

 example of the female there are two white central elongate marks suffused 

 with the ground-colour and marked Avith reddish on their outer extremity, 

 below them is a reddish spot. None of the Chinese examples have any red 

 spot on the tail. 



My collectors met with this species at Moupin, Wa-ssu-kow, and Ni-tou, 

 in Western China. 



Papilio polytes. 



Papilio polytes, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 746 (1767) ; Clerck, Icones, pi. xiv. fig. 1 

 (1864) ; Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. cclxv. figs. A-C (1782) ; Distant, Rliop. Malay, 

 p. 347, pi. xxxiii. figs. 7 c?, 8, 9, 10 ? (1885). 



Papilio pammnn, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 746 (1767) ; Clerck, Icones, pi. xiv. fig. 2 

 (1764); Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. cxli. fig. B (1779). 



Fajnlio p amnion, var. borealis, Eelder, Wien. ent. ]Mon. vi. p. 22 (1861). 



Papilio romulus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. xliii. fig. A, ? (1776). 



Laertias romulus, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 150, pi. lix. figs. 1 a-c (1881). 



Papilio pammon, var. thibetanus, Obertliiir, Etud. d^Entom. xi. p. I t (1886). 



" Male. Wings above blackish or very dark fuscous ; anterior wings with an outer marginal 

 series of small creamy spots placed between the nervules ; posterior wings with a transverse 

 discal series of large creamy spots divided by the nervules, the fringe alternately creamy and 

 blackish. Wings beneath <as above, but the posterior wings having a submarginid series of 

 lunulate ochraceous spots, two spots a little above anal angle, the uppermost largest, reddish, 

 and preceded by some bluish scales, the fringe-like spots much larger than above. ]?ody and 

 legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



" Female. Varietal form A. — Closely resembling the male above, but with a red ^mt at a little 

 above anal angle of posterior wings; wings beneath as in male, but the reddish s])ot above 

 anal angle of posterior wings duplex, and preceded l)y a somewhat reddish »\wi thickly 

 rrorated with Iduisli scales situate between the second and third median nervules. 



" Varietal form ]}. — Anterior wings above much ])Mlcr, the basal area darker and with darker 

 streaks in cell and between the nervules ; posterior wings with five erc-aiuy discal spots, one 

 in and near end of cell and four beyond apex of cell divided by the discoidal and lirst and 

 second median nervules, the innermost spot being more or less ochraceous and situate in 

 a larger reddisli patch irroratcd with violaceous scales wiueli extends to abdonunal margin, 

 and being divided by the lower median nervule ; a submarginal series of reddish liinnlate 

 spots jdaced between the nervules, the two within tho area of the caudate appendage duplex, 

 ;ind a large reddish spot near anal angle wdth a blackish centre, tho fringe alternately creamy 

 and blackish. Anterior wings beneath much ])aler than above; posterior wings as above, 

 hut witli the submarginal .s])ots larger and irroratcd with l)hiish scales' and the fringe-like 

 spots also larger than above."' {Distant, I. c.) 



