556 PAPILIONID^. 
differs from it in the colour uiid form of the posterior wing, and has besides an orange 
spot at its anal angle. The abdomen is s/ioiled with white, not banded as in F. af/estoi:" 
(Hewitson, I. c.) 
Var. horatius, Blancliard. " Ayant le port d'line Danaido et una certaine parente avec les 
Papilio cujestor et xenodes, les ailes d'nn noir terne, parscmees decailles d'un blanc-jaunatre, 
formant de larges raies ; les ailes posterieurea arrondies, ornees d'une tac-he fauno a Tangle 
interne." [BlancJinnl, I. c.) 
Occurs in Western China at Moupin, Omei-shan, and Chow-pin-sa. The 
specimens differ from Darjiling examples in being more suffused with black. 
Both sexes are represented, but excepting that the females are rather larger 
and darker and more rounded in the wing, they do not differ from the males 
in general appearance. 
This species bears a strong superficial resemblance to dark females of 
Pareba vesta, which is very common in Western China. 
Mr. Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 432) says that P. epycidcs 
" occurs not uncommonly in some seasons at 2000 to 3000 ft. in April 
and May. The female is unknown to me, but is described by Moller as like 
the male, but with broader wings, and all the Avhite markings comparatively 
larger. This species seems to have been found nowhere but in Sikkim, and 
is said by Moller to frequent the sandy beds of streams, like other species of 
the genus, and to be single-brooded." 
Oberthiir (Etud. d'Entom. iv. p. 100) records Papilio dissimilis fi'om China, 
but does not give the exact locality. 
Papilio agestor. (Plate XXXV. fig. 5, var. 2 .) 
Papilio agi'stor, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1831) ; Lep. Ins. Nep. p. 6, pi. iv. tig. 2 
(1846) ; Westwood, Ai-c. Eut. i. pi. xvi. fig. 2 (18-t2). 
Cadugdides agestor, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 260. 
" P. alis griseis, veuis margineque esteriore nigris, griseo punctatis : posticis corticinis, disco 
punctate griseis. Espansio alarum, 3| unc. Habitat in Sumatra." {Gray, Z. M.) 
•■ Fore wings grej-, with the veins and the margin black, the latter spotted with grey ; the hind 
wings brownish red, with the disc and spots grey. Under surface similar to the upper, but 
paler. 
" Expanse of wings 3-3| inches." (Gray, L. I. X.) 
This species is represented in China by a distinct form, for which I 
propose the name 
