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RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



Papilio Pompilius t Fabr. Mailt. Ins, ii. p. 8, 11. 06 (1787) ; Goat. Enc. Meth. k. p. 40, n» 70 (161ft). 



Patfaliritw Powpilim, Swains, Zool. 111. Ins. ii. t. 105 (18031. 



Pathym Antiphata, Mooro, Lep. Geyl. vol, i. p. 142, t. 63, L I, 14 (1681). 



Papain Uamptttii Forbes.* 



Male and Female. Wings above pale stvaraiueoua ; anterior wings with the cell crossed by five 

 black fascia?, the first and second slender, the third broad. Ibo ft.>u rib wedge-shaped and not reaching 

 the median nervure, the fifth broadest and occupying extremity of cell, a broad marginal and a submarginal 

 black fascia which amalgamate at about the second median ncrvule, and the marginal fascia not quite 

 reaching the outer angle, the ground colour of the basal half of cell and of the apical area is pale greenish, 

 tliL- costal margin being narrowly black ; posterior wings with a black lunate and broken marginal fascia, 

 the caudate appendages black, outwardly and narrowly margined with ochraeeous, with their apices 

 greyish, a plumbaginous patch at anal-angular urea containing two or three subniarginal narrow 

 transverse black spots, and extending a short distance down : lu: caudate appendages, anal angle inwardly 

 margined with ochraeeous, with a black spot above. Anterior wings beneath marked as above, but with 

 the two basal fasciae extending a short distance beneath cell, the fourth fascia almost reaching the median 

 nervure, the marginal and submarginal fasciae not amalgamated at the second median nervule, and the 

 ground colour at the area of the median nervules pale greyi sh- white ; posterior wings beneath with 

 the basal half greenish, crossed by three longitudinal narrow Hack fasciae, the outermost irregular and 

 sometimes more or loss broken ; this is followed by a series of irregular black spots ; the ground colour 

 is then dark ochraceous, with a submarginal series of black spots approach iug closer to the margin 

 towards anal angle, a broken Innately macular black margin which at anal angle is preceded by dark 

 plumbaginous between it and the submarginal spots; a large black spot above anal angle preceded by 

 two transverse yellowish spots, margined on each side by blackish; caudate appendages as above, but 

 with a pale central line almost reaching their apices. Body above with the thorax pale plumbaginous ; 

 the abdomen ochraeeous, with dorsal black spots ; body beneath and legs very pale ochraeeous, the 

 abdomen and thorax margined with blackish, the legs streaked with blackish, 



Exp. wings, J and 9 , 72 to 84 millim. 



Hau.— Continental India; Silhet (Horsf, & Moore) ; Sikkim(coIh Dist.). — Ceylon (Moore), — Andaman 

 Islands; Port Blair (Moore). — Tenasserim; Houngduran Source (Limborg — Moore), — Malay Peninsula; 

 Province Wellesley (colls. Dist. and Sauer) ; Porak (Ki'mst.— Calc. Mus. '< : Mnlacca i, Pin will - Brit. Mus.).— 

 Sumatra (Snellen). — Billiton (Godm. & Salv.). — Java (Horsf. & Moore) ; Batavia (Snellen). — Borneo 

 (Lowe— coll. Dist.); Bnnjermasin, Pontianak (Voll.J. — Philippines ^Semper). — China; Hong Kong (Gray). 



This species is very variable and extremely difficult to properly identify under its several 

 named forms* Firstly, all the Malaccan forms are distinctly separable from the true 

 P. atttiphates in not having the first and second basal fascia? of the anterior wings extending 

 beneath the cell, and also in not having the outer marginal fascia quite reaching the outer 

 angle. This form is found in Continental India \[ have specimens from Sikkini) and in 

 China. We have now three named forms differing in these respects from I\ antiphates t — the 

 P, alcihitults, Fabr., /', jump Huts, Fabr r , and l\ Uamputi, Forbes, — and for drawings made of 

 these, and for precise and liberal information concerning the same, I am much indebted 

 to Mr. A, U. Butler. I thus learn that 1\ aU'dnudcs is the Javau form of the species, aitrl that 

 " the P. pompilius of Fabricius is I believe correctly identified by Swainson ..... and is the 

 Malaccan form of P. alctbiades, difficult to separate froin it indeed by description but 



: I am informed by Mr. Butlur that iliis form if daacribeil iu Fi>rbeB' ' Nat. W«&<L East Archipel.,* but I have not yet 

 gectt that work. 



