PAPILIO. 535 
Papilio paris. 
Papilio paris, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 745 (1767) ; Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. i. pi. xii. 
figs. ], 2 (1773) ; Donovan, Ins. China, pi. xxii. (1798) ; Gray, Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus. 
i. p. 17 (1852). 
AchiUides parts, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sclimett. p. 85; Gray, loc. cit. 
Male. Black, thickly sprinkled with green scales except on the veins. Primaries traversed by a 
yellowish-green band, not always clearly defined towards costa. Secondaries have a large 
blue patch beyond discoidal cell, the inner edge of this patch is curved and invades the cell, 
and the outer edge is sinuous ; on abdominal margin above anal angle there is a reddish and 
violet ring, often interrupted ; the space between these two marks is only sparingly powdered 
with green, and is limited by yellowish-green irregular bands ; the costal area above and the 
outer marginal area beyond blue patch is also clear of green scales. Fringes black, chequered 
with white between the nervules, narrowly on primaries, but more broadly on secondaries. 
Under surface : basal half of primaries black, as also is the outer marginal area, the intervening 
space is whitish grey, tapering towards inner margin, and intersected by the black nervules 
and internervular streaks ; secondaries black, basal half sprinkled with greyish scales ; sub- 
marginal crescents reddish and violet. 
Female rather browner than the male, and the blue patch on secondaries is of less extent and 
deeper in tint. 
Expanse, cS 98-130 millim., § 117-130 millim. 
The blue patch varies in tint and is sometimes rather greenish than blue. 
This species has been placed in Ilarimala by Wood-Mason and deNiceville. 
An exceedingly common species in Western China. Specimens vary consider- 
ably in size, the smaller examples being probably referable to a spring brood. 
Referring to this species in Sikkim, Mr. Elwes (T. E. S. 1888) says : — " The 
commonest of the green Papilios in the low valleys, and taken np to 500U 
feet. Settles on flower-heads and the damp sand in river-beds, and flies 
rapidly up and down their banks. The female is seldom taken, but does not 
difffer from the male, except in its paler coloration." 
Distribution. India and China. 
Papilio gyas. (Plate XXXII. fig. 1, <S var.) 
Papilio yyas, Westwood, Arc. Ent. i. p. 41, pi. xi. (1842). 
Papilio hercuh's, Blanchard, Comptes Rendus, Ixxii. p. 809 (note) (1871). 
Papilio sciron, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 192 (1890). 
Debasa gyas, Moore, Dec. New Ind. Ins. p. 283 (1888). 
" P. alls anticis subhamatis, posticis caudatis ; supra fuseis, margine obscurioro luteo submaculatis, 
macula parva coerulea ad angulum ani ; subtus brunuois, medio pallidis lunulisque siibargenteis 
notatis. 
" Expans. alar. unc. 4|. Habitat Assam. 
