492 PAPlLIOXlDJi:. 
ill only four nervulcs ; of which one is thrown off beyond the middle of the cell, the 
second a little before its end, the third about halfway between the cell and the apex of the 
wing. Upper discoeellular and baseo-median nervules both wanting. 
" Postei-ior ivinr/s elongate, ovate, emarginate internally, without any abdominal folds, subdia- 
phanous. Precostal nervure not branched. 
" Legs short. Anterior tibiae with a short flat spur. Tarsi longer than the tibia) ; basal joints 
about equal to the rest combined; second, third, and fourth progressively shorter; fifth 
longer than the second. Claws simple ; inner very sharp, long, grooved internally ; outer 
about two thirds the length of the inner ; the points directed inward ; base of the claws 
with a horny projection. 
" Abdomen short, stout, very hairy, terminated in the females by a corneous pouch or plate. 
" Lauva cylindric, slightly tuberoulate. 
" Pupa cylindrico-conic, subfoUiculate. 
" This genus may be known from all other Papilionidoe by the structure of 
the anterior wings, in which one subcostal nervule, apparently the first, is 
wanting. This character and its more distinctly triarticulate palpi separate 
it from JDoritis on the one hand, and Eurycus on the other. 
" There is a striking resemblance in the markings of the anterior wings in 
this genus and in Euryms, more especially in the round black spots in the 
middle of, and at the end of, the cell. In fact Eurycus may be viewed as 
the Australian representative of Famassms. 
"The larvfe, as far as is known, feed on sedums, saxifrages, and fumi- 
tories ; they are pubescent, velvety black, Avith numerous orange spots and 
small tubercles. 
" The pupte are enclosed in a loose silken web, supported also by some 
transverse threads : they are subcylindi-ic, conic posteriorly, not angular, and, 
from being covered with bluish powder, very much resemble those of the 
genus Catocala amougst moths." (Boubleday, I. c.) 
Parnassius epaphus. 
Parnassius jiicqueiiioiitii, Blancliard, Jacquera. Yoy. lud. w. pi. i. fig. 3 (18i4j ; Gray, 
Cat. Lep. lus. B.M. i. pi. xii. figs. 1, 2 (185.2). 
Parnassius jacquemonti, ? , Boisd. ; Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1886, p. 36. 
Parnassius epaphus, Oherihxxr, Etud. d'Entom. iv. p. 23 (1879), xiv. p. 9, pi. i. figs. 
4 J,5 ? (1891). 
Parnassius epaplms, var. cachcmiriensis, Obertliiir, op. cit. xiv. pi. i. figs. 6 (7, 7 $ . 
Parnassius epaphus, var. sikkimensis, Ehves, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 399, pi. xxv. 
figs. 4, 5, 5 . 
Parnassius poda, ObertLiir, Etud. d'Entom. xvi. p. 2, pi. ii. fig. 9 (1892). 
