THE GENERAL SUBJECT, PAPILIONIDJE. 
Ins. 163 
Tepper, J. G. O. The Papilionidai of South Australia. Tr. R. Soc. 
S. Austr. iv. pp. 25-36, pis. ii. & iii. 
34 species of Butterflies, including Synemon , are noticed, and many of 
them figured. A few are described as new. 
List of 82 Lepidoptera from Melbourne ; Butler, Ann. N. H. (5) ix. 
pp. 84-103. 
List of Butterflies taken near Balhannah Co., Adelaide ; Guest, Tr. R. - 
Soc. S. Austr. v. pp. 34-37. 
Notes on Sphinges and Bombyces of S. Australia ; Gaze, op. cit. iv. 
pp. 141-143. 
Eggs or larvae noticed of A rgyrophenga anlipodum , Chrysophanus sa- 
lustius , Nychthemera annulata, Porina variolaris, Ipana leptomera , Agrotis 
suffusa, Mecyna polygonalis , Boarmia attracta, Cidaria similata , and Helac- 
tia , sp. ; Purdie, N. Z. J. Sci. i. pp. 94 & 95. 
Swarms of caterpillars in New Zealand ; Sci. Goss, xviii. p. 141. 
PAPILIONIDiE. 
Gosse, P. H. The prehensores of Male Butterflies of the genera 
Ornilhoplera and Papilio. (Abstract.) P. R. Soc. xxxiii. pp. 23-27. 
These organs consist of the following five parts : — 1. The Yalve. 2. The 
Harpe (an organ situated on the coucave inner side of the valve, and 
frequently varying very much in structure, even in species which are appa- 
rently very closely allied). 3. The Uncus (a slender hooked spine, some- 
times absent, terminating the dorsal arch of the eighth abdominal segment). 
4. The Scaphium (a whito boat-shaped mass, sometimes armed, projecting 
beneath tho uncus j only mot with in tho Papilionidai and Pieridce , and 
sometimes absent even in them). 5. The Peuis. 
Hagen, II. A. On Papilio machaon, L., and its American representa- 
tives ; Papilio rutulus, Boisd., and Parnassius ; being a portion of a 
preliminary report on the Butterflies of Washington Territory. 
Papilio, ii. pp. 149-164. 
According to the writer Papilio oregonius = zolicaon, var. ; P. sphyrus , 
Hiibn., = machaon , var. asiatica ; P. hospiton is only an exaggerated var. 
of machaon ; P.aliaska — P. oregonius ; P.hippocrates — machaon, var. ; 
nor can even P. zolicaon be regarded as distinct from machaon ; P. 
rutulus, turnus , dannus , and probably eurymedon , are forms of one species ; 
Parnassius smintheus, var. described. 
Ornithoptera rhadamanthus , Boisd., figs. 7, 7 a & B, Papilio palephates , 
Westw., figs. 8, 8 a-8c, p. 262, antiphus, Fabr., var. Jcotzebuea , Esch., 
figs. 3, 3 a & b, alphenor, Cram., figs. 1, Ia & b, p. 264, agamemnon , Linn., 
figs. 4, 4 a & B, p. 265, larvae and pupae described and figured ; Dewitz> 
Yerh. L.-C. Ak. xliv. pi. ix. 
Papilio poccalirius, L., machaon, L., Parnassius apollo , L., var. hese - 
bolus , Nordm., corybas , Fisch., var. n. discobolus (p. 349), apollonius , 
actius, and dclphius , Eversm., noticed from Kulja ; AlplnSraky, Hor. Ent. 
Ross. xvi. pp. 347-357 & 433. 
Papilio. Pryer (Tr. E. Soc. 1882, pp. 486 & 487) notices the following 
