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several forms: $-f. semperinus Haase (26 c), forewing almost as dark as in the <$, but also above with large semperinus. 
red basal spot, which is continued on the hindwing by a red band parallel with the abdominal margin; 
the rest of the hindwing above black with blue stripes; but the longitudinal band is often more or less 
whitish and widened and in that case a number of admarginal and submarginal spots are also 
present. The second main form is $>-f. rumanzovia Eschsch. (— descombesi Bdv.) (27 a). The stripes of the rumanzovia. 
forewing above and beneath at least partly white, the hindwing with large white central area, which extends 
from near the abdominal margin into the cell; according to Semper the specimens of this form from the Philip¬ 
pines have always a red basal spot on the upperside of the forewing; on Siao, Sangir and Talaut on the contrary 
the basal spot is often very small or entirely absent, some specimens moreover present a very strikingly different 
appearance through the white area of the hindwing being reduced and the 4.—6. admarginal spot very large, 
isolated 1 ) and red-white: $-f. eubalia form. nov. (type from Siao) (48 c). — Larva green, with strongly swollen eubalia. 
thorax; a spectacle-band on the thorax and behind it a raised yellowish band, which is connected laterally with 
a yellowish or greenish longitudinal stripe, on the abdomen an oblique band and a transverse one, not interrupted 
and like the anal segment whitish; the scent-fork orange. Pupa as in P. memnon. The butterfly on all the islands 
of the Philippines (Mindoro, Luzon, Mindanao, etc.), as well as on the Siao, Sangir and Talaut Islands to the 
north of Celebes; common. The semperinus-iorm. of the $ resembles P. semperi, the red longitudinal stripe on 
the wings mimics the red abdomen of semperi ; but this form is also found on the Talaut Islands, where semperi 
does not occur. 
P. deiphobus. Very nearly allied to the preceding species. Forewing much less falcate. With or without 
tail, the patches of the under surface as brilliant red as in rumanzovia. <$: upper surface of the hindwing before 
the distal margin with a broad band composed of light blue stripes, the inner margin of which is uniformly concave. 
§: forewing with thin white fringe-spots; the red admarginal spots of the hindwing, and especially the anterior 
ones, broadly confluent with the white fringe-spots. This quick-flying butterfly is especially common near the 
settlements, where Citrus trees grow in the gardens, rarer in the woods. The larva still undescribed, probably 
similar to that of memnon. The Moluccas and Waigeu, perhaps also in New Guinea. — deiphontes Fldr. (29 a). 
Tailless, but with distinctly projecting tooth at the 3. radial. the blue stripes on the upper surface of the 
hindwing densely scaled, more or less united in pairs and the patches thus formed distally emarginate. $: fore¬ 
wing from the base to the 2. median brownish black, then lighter, with brownish black streaks between the 
veins, on the under surface only the light streaks placed behind the 2. median basally white, the others all darkened. 
Hindwing always with white discal area and anteriorly near the apex with metallically blue scaling. and $$ 
which have yellowish instead of red spots on the hindwing are ab. flava Oberth. Morty, Halmaheira, Ternate 
and Batjan. ■— deipylus Fldr. $ tailed, the band of the hindwing as in deiphontes, but the black interneural 
stripes on the whole even thinner. The $ likewise tailed, the forewing darker than in deiphontes, the posterior 
grey-brown stripes not whitish basally, the white cell-spot of the hindwing only indicated. Waigeu and perhaps 
also Dutch New Guinea. — deiphobus L. ($ = alcandor Cr .) (28 a, b). Tailed. Jf: the grey-blue stripes on the 
upperside of the hindwing much further from the distal margin than in the preceding forms and mostly also much 
thinner. $: the part of the disc of the forewing placed below the cell and also the adjoining part of the cell 
itself much lighter; the markings of the hindwing individually variable. Specimens (^$) in which all the red 
is replaced by yellow are ab. hypoxanthos Bob. On Ceram, Saparoea, Amboina, Buru and Obi: common. 
deiphontes. 
flava. 
deipylus. 
deiphobus. 
hypoxan¬ 
thos. 
P. protenor. $ and $ similar. black, wings with bluish gloss; hindwing long, without tail, from 
the apex of the costa towards the anal angle almost uniformly broad, with long white costal patch, which is covered 
by the forewing. Under surface paler, especially on the forewing, which is striped with whitish in the cell and 
on the disc; hindwing with red submarginal spots, of which the central ones are usually entirely absent, whilst 
the 7. and frequently also the 6. are united into rings with the marginal spots. $ much paler than the U- Larva 
green, a spectacle-band on the thorax, a black-edged band on the 4. segment, two oblique bands on the abdomen 
and the anal segment brown mixed with white; the prolegs grey; on Zanthophyllum. The butterfly common 
in most localities, often in swarms on moist sand at the banks of rivers, also visits flowers, being especially fond 
of thistles. During its slow and somewhat tumbling flight it moves the wings only slowly up and down, which 
gives it a somewhat clumsy appearance. The spring specimens are smaller. In the mountain-valleys of North 
India, in Burma, Tonkin, China, Hainan and Formosa. — euprotenor Fruhst. (= protenor auct., euanthes euprotenor. 
Fruhst., sulpitius Fruhst.). Upper surface of the hindwing usually sprinkled with blue scales to beyond the 3. 
radial. Distributed from North India to Burma, northwards beyond Tonkin to Hainan. — In protenor Cr., from protenor. 
China and North-West India (see vol. I, pi. 3 b), the blue dusting of the hindwing above mostly does not reach 
the 2. radial, also the under surface of the forewing is on the whole less whitish than in euprotenor. Not sharply 
distinguished from euprotenor. — amaura subsp. nov. As in the Chinese form the blue dusting on the upperside amaura. 
of the hindwing is always very much reduced and usually almost entirely absent. Beneath the forewing is darker 
J ) This $ strongly recalls the deiphontes -? from the Northern Moluccas, and was recorded by Semper as such, 
