PAPILIO. 551 
colour aud ornamentation similar to those characters on the upporsiJe, but somewhat 
fainter. Head, thorax, and legs black. Bod}' bluish black. 
Female. The primaries are rather darker, there are a few bluish scales below the centre of the 
secondaries, the tails are slightly more rounded, and the red marginal markings of the under 
surface of secondaries are more pronounced. 
Expanse 150 niillim. 
This species can at once be separated from any other known PapiJio by its 
broad spatulate tails, which are traversed to their margins by two (the 2nd 
and 3rd median) nervules. 
The original specimens were from Kiukiang. I have since received 
examples from Chang-yang in Avhich the discoidal cell of secondaries is filled 
in with white intersected by black vein-like streaks, the white extending beyond 
the cell in the form of a triangular spot. 
I am indebted to Mr. John Watson of Manchester for the loan of a 
drawing of a female specimen from Central China. Mr. Grose Smith has 
also kindly lent me for examination two examples of this sex of P. elwesi 
which he received from Icliang. 
Papilio bootes. 
Papilio bootes, Westwoocl, Arc. Eut. i. p. 1,23, pi. 31 (1842). 
" P. alls nigris, valde elongatis, postiois spathulato-caudatis, harum disco plaga media alba, vena 
nigra in duas partes divisa, macula ad angulum ani, lunulisque tribus submarginalibus rufis ; 
incisionibus pallide marginatis, caudaque bimaculata ; alls subtus simiUbus at pallidioribus ; 
omnibus plaga magna basali rufa ; maculis lunulisque rufis majoribus, capite, colic et corpore 
infra rufo. Expans. alar. uno. 5. 
" Inhabits Sylhet in the East Indies." {Westwood, 1. c.) 
Male. Fuliginous black, generally marked with red at the base of the primaries ; neuration of all 
the wings, streaks between the veins and iu discoidal cell of primaries, black. The second- 
aries have the outer margin deeply excavated between the nervules, the tail is short and 
spatulate ; there is generally a large white central patch divided by the third median 
nervule, sometimes a smaller one below in the first median interspace and a still smaller ono 
in the submedian interspace ; the red markings comprise a spot at anal angle surmounted by 
a lunule, a lunule in first median interspace and four luuules on outer margin. Under 
surface paler than above ; all the wings are marked with red at the base, the white central 
spot rather larger, all the red lunules on outer margin are surmounted by others, and that in 
the submedian interspace is sometimes united with the lunule in the next interspace by a red 
streak along the first median nervule. Head and collar marked with red. Abdomen black 
above, red beneath. 
Female. Subdiaphanous, fuliginous grey, markings as in the male. 
Expanse, d 116-123 miUim., ? 124-126 millim. 
The white spots on the central area of secondaries vary considerably iu size 
