526. PAPILIOXID.E. 
spots in cell — the one at apes small and rounded, the others more or less linear, — a discal 
oblique row of eight spots commencing just beyond end of cell and terminating on inner 
margin — of these the third spot is smallest, and the sixth, seventh, and eighth much the 
largest, the last two being more or less fused together, — a small subapical spot and a sub- 
marginal row of still smaller spots ; posterior wings with the basal half of costal area greyish, 
three large discal spots,— the largest in cell, the smallest above cell, and the other situate 
between the two lower median nervules, — a submarginal row of small spots and a large 
greyish patch on abdominal margin, fringe alternately greyish. "Wings beneath paler than 
above, the spots silvery iu hue; anterior wings spotted as above ; posterior wings with the 
three discal spots continued to eosta in a large silvery patch, yellowish at base, and traversed 
by two dark fuscous fasciae, — one near base parallel with abdominal margin, the other 
concave at about centre of wing, — between these fasciae the median nervure is broadly blackish ; 
beyond cell and extending to a little above anal angle are a series of red spots, the innermost 
of which is followed by a small greyish spot ; the submarginal spots much larger than above, 
with two additional linear spots situate one on each side of the upper subcostal nervule. Body 
above with the head and pronotum blackish ; the abdomen fuscous ; body beneath greyish ; 
legs greyish, streaked with blackish. 
" Expanse ^ 74 millim." (Distant, I. c.) 
I have only received one example of this variable and wide-ranging species 
from China. It was taken at Chang-yang, and differs from all other examples 
of P. hathycles that I have seen in having the spots of central series on 
primaries naiTower and more elongate. 
Distribution. Malay Peninsula, Penang, Perak, Malacca, Singapore, Java, 
Borneo, Sikkim, Bhotan, Nepal, the Kliasias, and China. 
Papilio mikado. (Plate XXXII. fig. 6 ? .) 
Pajnlio mikado, Leech, Proc. Zool, Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 406, pi. xxxv. fig. 1. 
Ground-colour of all the wings black ; a narrow straw-coloured streak extends across the basal 
area of the fore wing interrupted by the nervures. All the wings covered with straw-coloured 
spots consisting of a submarginal series of fairly uniform spots running round the outer 
margin of the wing ; a subcostal series of eight spots, three of which are situated in the 
discoidal cell, a discal series of six graduated spots on the fore wing, which is continued on 
the hind wing in a wedge-shaped mass, tapering to a blunt point near the anal angle and 
divided into two by the median nervure ; the first two spots of the submarginal series of the 
hind wing, the anal lunule, the upper part of the wedge-shaped mass, and the interior of the 
abdominal fold are very pale yellow. Underside, a reproduction of the upper surface, with 
most of the spots enlarged and whiter, and with the addition of a yellow spot at the base of 
the hind wing and an irregular arrangement of yellow markings between the discal and sub- 
marginal spots of the hind wing. 
Expanse 3| inches. 
I took one female example of this species in 1S86, about May 20th, near 
