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PAPILIONID^. 



differs from it in the colour and form of the posterior wing, and has besides an orange 

 spot at its anal angle. The abdomen is spotted with white, not banded as in P. a(/estor." 

 {Hewitson, I. c.) 



Var. horatiuS, Blancliard. " Ayant le port d'une Danai'de et une certaine parente avec les 

 Papilio agestor et xenocles, les ailes d'un noir terne, parsemees d'ecailles d'un hlanc-jannatre, 

 formant de larges raies ; les ailes posterieurcs arrondies, ornees d'une tache faune a Tangle 

 interne." {BlancJictnl, I. c.) 



Occurs in Western China at Moiipin, Omei-shan, and Chow-pin-sa. The 

 specimens differ from Darjiling examples in being more suffused with black. 

 Both sexes are represented, but excepting that the females are rather larger 

 and darker and more rounded in the wing, they do not differ from the males 

 in general appearance. 



This species bears a strong superficial resemblance to dark females of 

 Pareba vesta, which is very common in Western China. 



Mr. Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 432) says that P. epycides 

 " occurs not uncommonly in some seasons at 2000 to 3000 ft. in April 

 and May. The female is unknown to me, but is described by Moller as like 

 the male, but with broader wings, and all the white markings comparatively 

 larger. This species seems to have been found nowhere but in Sikkim, and 

 is said by Moller to frequent the sandy beds of streams, like other species of 

 the genus, and to be single-brooded." 



Oberthiir (Etud. d'Entom. iv. p. 100) records Papilio dissimilis from China, 

 but does not give the exact locality. 



Papilio agestor. (Plate XXXV. fig. 5, var. 2 .) 



Papilio agestor, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. .32 (1831) ; Lep. Ins. Nep. p. 0, pi. iv. fig. 2 



(1810) ; Westwood, Arc. Ent. i. pi. xvi. fig. 2 (1812). 

 ('aduyo'idcs ayestor, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 2(50. 



" P. alls griselH, venis margincquo cxterioro nigris, grisco punctat is ; j)osticis corticiuis, disco 

 punctate griseis. Expansio alarum, .3i unc. Habitat in Sumatra." (dray, Z. M.) 



" Fort! wingH gn-y, with tho veins and tho margin black, tlu; latter spotti'il witli groy ; the Iiind 

 wings l)rowni.sli rod, with the disc and spots grey. Under surface similar lo the upper, but 

 paler. 



•' Expanse of wings 3-3^ inches." (fi'm;/, A. /. A.) 



This species is represented in Cliina by a distinct form, for wliich I 

 proj)osr; the name 



