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modification ; thus, in the males, the spots forming the central band are 

 sometimes exceedingly small and vary in colour from the palest yellow to 

 oclireous, there is often a red anal lunule, and in some specimens there are 

 red submarginal lunules. The female of the lorealis-ioxm varies in the 

 number, shape, and size of the central yellowish spots. 



Ij. folytes is common in all parts of China Avhich my collectors visited. It 

 has been recorded from Japan, but 1 believe that this is an error. Pryer does 

 not mention it, although he was well acquainted with the species as he 

 received a large number of specimens from the Loochoo islands. I found the 

 insect plentifully in gardens at Foochau and I also met with it at Ningpo. 



Elwes says that it is common in Sikkim, at Ioav elevations. 



Polyfes and jmvimon are treated as distinct species by Horsfield and 

 Moore in their Catalogue of Lepidoptera in the Museum of the East India 

 Company, where the larva and pupa are figured (plate iii. figs. 3, 3 o', 4, 4 a). 

 The larva is stated to feed " on a species of Citrus, bearing the native name 

 of Juni/i." Lemon tree and common lime have also been given as food- 

 plants. 



Mr. de Niceville (Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1885, p. 6 2) says: — ''the 

 commonest Papilio in Calcutta. All three forms of the female occur. I^arva 

 reared on Glycosmis pent'iphyUa, ^gle marmeJos, and the common lime." 



Lisfrihiifion. India, Ceylon, Perak, Malay Peninsuhi, Java, Borneo, Philip- 

 pines, Siam, Cochin China, Jjoochoo, and China. 



1 ca])tured Fnpilio ei'ithonius, Cramer, at Foochau, early in April ; but so 

 iar it does not appear to have been met with in any part of the region dealt 

 with in the present work. 



Papilio aristolocliiae. 



Papilio aristolochiai, l al)riciii>, Svst. Ent. p. 41.3 (1775) ; Distant, Rliop. Malay, p. 337, 



xxxi. figs. (), 7, vars. (18H5). 

 Pfij/i/io po/idorus, Cramer, Pap. ICxot. ii. p. i'), pi. cxxviii. (1777). 

 /'</pi/io diphilus, Esper, Ausl. Sclimctt. pi. xl. h. fijj^. 1 (1785-1798). 

 Merielaidcs aris/aloc/iia', Moore, Troc. Zool. Soc. IjoikI. 188,'2, ]). 259. 



" Mah. Anterior winfrs above fiilif;inou8, tho basal area blackisli, and the remaining area strciiked 

 with blackinh, both in cell and between the ncrvulcs ; posterior wings bliickisb, with five 

 whiticb Bjxits beyond cell, the first and smallest si tnato above the discoidal nervule, tho fifth 

 between Um; lower median nerviilc imd the subniediaii iicrvure, iiiid a Niihinarginal row <>( six 



