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LEPIDOPTERA. 
Japanese species: — P. xuthus and xuthulus , mcichaon, alcinous, macilentus , 
muacki , and demetrius ; lie refers to their food plants, transformations 
and variation, and specially notices the difference in odour of the early 
spring and summer specimens of P. alcinous. P. xuthus and xuthulus he 
regards as broods, and considers P. dehaani , bianor, and tutanus to be 
forms of maacki. 
Papilio. List of species captured in Angola from Sept. -Nov. 1880, 
by Yon Mechow ; Dewitz, B. E. Z. xxvi. p. G8. P. alhanus , Feld., is 
hardly distinct from eurymedon, Boisd. ; H. Edwards, Papilio, ii. p. 122. 
P. antimachus noticed ; Aurivillius, Ent. Tidskr. iii. pp. 195 & 213. P. 
govindra mimics Gaduga tytia ; Hocking, Sci. Goss, xviii. p. 271. P. 
Icestrygonum figured ; Marshall & De Niceville, Butt. Ind. i., front, figs. 1 
& 1 a. P.machaon: contributions to life-history; Buckler, Ent. M. M. 
xviii. pp. 244-249, Papilio, ii. pp. 85-90 : aberrations ; Marott, Giorn. 
Sc. Palerm. xiv. pp. 50 & 51, pi. iii. figs. 1-3. Local variation dis- 
cussed, the American form is P. aliasfca , Scudd.; W. H. Edwards, Papilio, 
ii. pp. 74-77 : var. asiatica, Men., noticed from Sikkim ; Elwes, P. Z. S. 
1882, p. 399. P. oregonia , Edw. : larva described ; Stretch, Papilio, 
ii. pp. 119-121. P. papone , Westw., noticed from Upper Tenasserim ; 
Marshall, J. A. S. B. Ii. pt. 2, p. 43. P. peon , Bog. : life history ; 
Walker, Ent. M. M. xix. pp. 53-55. P. poly damns, Linn., villiersi , Boisd., 
and sinon , Cram. (= zonaria , Butl.) : their claims to bo considered as North 
American species discussed ; W. H. Edwards, Cauad. Ent. xiv. p. 120. 
P. poly damns : occurrence in Florida noticed ; id. Papilio, ii. p. 122. P. 
rutulus , Boisd. : early stages of larva described; H. Edwards, l. c. pp. 112 
& 113. P. sinon , Poda, and podalirius, Linn. : Hagen demonstrates the 
priority of the latter name ; S. E. Z. xliii. p. 172. P. thoas ( cres - 
phontes) naturalized in Dutchess County, New York ; Dwight, Psyche, 
iii. p. 327. P. turnus and froilus : scent-organ of larva described; Skin- 
ner, P. Ac. Philad. 1882, p. 239. 
Zetides axion , Feld., redescribed ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 257. 
Parnassius actius, Eversm., var. rhodius from Ladak (pi. ii. fig. 6), and 
P. delius, Esp., var. corybas , Fisch., noticed ; Honrath, B. E. Z. xxvi. 
pp. 178 & 179. P. apollo : Hagen notices Meisner’s account of an herma- 
phrodite, S. E. Z. xliii. p. 407 ; stridulation of $ , Eaton, Ent. M. M. xix. 
p. 89 ; reputed occurrence in Devonshire (?), Brooke, Sci. Goss, xviii. 
p. 239. P. clodius, Mdn. : distinctive characters pointed out ; Butler, 
J. L. S. xvi. p. 472. P. discobolus , Staud., $ , and ab. nigricans , from 
Thianshan, and var. minor from Ala Tau, noticed and figured; Stau- 
dinger, B. E. Z. xxvi. pp. 162 & 163, pi. i. figs. 1, 2, 2 a & 3. P. epaphus , 
Oberth. (= jacquemonti, Gray, nec Boisd.), and var. sikicimensis , pi. xxv. 
figs. 4 & 5, P. acco, Gray (= simo, Gray), and hardwickii , Gray, dis- 
cussed ; Elwes, P. Z. S. 1882, pp. 399-401. P. mnemosyne , Linn., 
noticed ; Spangberg, Ent. Tidskr. iii. p. 152. P. smintheus , Doubl., 
recorded from California; Behrens, Papilio, ii. p. 50. P. tlior , H. Edw., 
== eversmanni, Men., $ var. ; H. Edwards, l. c. p. 148. 
New genera and species : — 
Byasa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 258. Allied to. Papilio-, type, P. phi- 
