SEIUCINUS.— AEMAXDIA. 489 
annurciisis, and auother, wliicli appears to be the Amurland spring form, 
he has called var. telemachus. 
I received specimens from Kwei-chow, but from no other locality in Western 
China. 
Distribution. Amurland, North, West, and Central China, Corea. 
Genus ARMANDIA. 
Armandia, Blanchard^ Compt. Kend. Ixxii. p. 809, note (1871). 
Bhutanitis, Atkinson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. 570. 
" Bead of medium size, hairy. Labial palpi ver}- hairy, long, slender, obliquely porrect, extending 
far be3fond the eyes. Antennae sliort, slender, with an elongated curved club. 
" Tlwrax rather slight. Anterior wings elongate, elliptical ; first subcostal nervule originating at 
nearly three fourths the length of the cell, the second about halfway between the origin of 
the first and the end of the cell, the third considerably beyond the cell, and the fourth some- 
what nearer to the origin of the third ; upper discocellular nervule very short, middle disco- 
cellular longer than the upper and lower together, basi-median nervule wanting. Posterior 
wings elongate, the basal half very narrow, inuer margin concavo beyond the extremity of 
the abdomen, outer margin prominently convex, scalloped, and tailed ; the precostal nervure 
branched, nearly as in Eart/cus. Legs of moderate length ; anterior tibiie with a stout spine 
near the middle ; tarsi slender, the first joint very long ; claws simple, of unequal length. 
" Abdomen slender, extending to less than half the length of the posterior wings." {AtUnson, L c.) 
Armandia thaidina. 
Armandia thaidina, Blanchard, Corapt. Rend. Ixxii. p. 809, note (1871). 
Armandia thditina, Obertliiir, Etud. d'Eutoni. iv. p. 18, pi. i. fig. 1 (187G), xi. p. ll- 
(1880). 
" Corps frele comme chez les Thais, port de nos Papilio, ailes plus delicates, antennes aussi tongues 
a massue mince, palpes aussi saillants que ceux des Thais et presque semblables par la forme. 
Taille de nos Papilio podalirius et machaon ; les ailes d'un noir mat ; les anterieures 
traversees par huit raies jauues, dont la troisieme, la cinquieme et la huitieme incompletes, 
les ailes posterieures egalement traverse'es par des raies jaunes et ornees d'une bande rouge 
dentelee, n'atteignant que le bord anterieur, plus en arriere, de trois taches bleucs un peu 
eteintes et enfin de trois petites raies fauves; un grand prolongement median enforme de 
queue et deux dents internes de longueur inegale ; le corps noir avec des polls jaunatres sur 
le cote dii thorax et de Tabdomen. La femeUe semblable au mPde." {Blanchard, 1. c.) 
Male. Primaries black, traversed by seven yellow lines, the third and fifth from the base only 
extend from costa to median nerve, the others are continued to inner margin. Secondaries 
black, with one entire and three interrupted yellow lines from costa to median nerve, which 
together with its branches and the submedian nervure are also yellow ; a fairly broad crimson 
band, sinuate on its outer edge, extends from the discoidal interspace to the abdominal 
margin and is followed by three dark blue spots with paler centres ; there are five yellow 
linear spots on the outer margin, the lower ones tinged with reddish. The tail is long, 
