PAPILI0NINJ3. 
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Papilio (Eques, pt.), Latreille, Cuvier’s Reg. Anim. iii. p. 549 (181/) ; id. l.c. v. p. 37u (1829). 
Papilio (sect. 51), Felder, Verh. Z. B. Ges. Wien. 1864, pp. 314, 362. 
Papilio (group 5, pt.), Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 272 (1895). 
Imago. — Forewing triangular; costa slightly arched, exterior margin oblique 
and slightly uneven,* cell somewhat fusiform; upper discocellular shortest; hist 
subcostal branch emitted at one-third and second at one-fourth before end of the 
cell. Hindmng short, broad ; costa very oblique, exterior margin sinuous, and with 
a moderately long tail which is broad at the base and acute at the tip; cell broad ; 
first subcostal emitted at nearly half before end of the cell, second branch straight 
at the base. Body short, thick; thorax and head densely, and abdomen slightly, 
pilose ; femora densely pilose; antennas short, the club very stout. 
Lakva. —Adult; smooth ; anterior segments somewhat thickened; furnished 
with two retractile tentacula on the anterior segment. 
Pupa. —Head obtusely cleft in front; thorax laterally angled, and with a dorsal 
obtusely-pointed projection. 
Type.— P. Machaon. 
PAPILIO ASIATICA (Plate 481, fig. 1, larva and pupce, la, b, lc, ? ; Plate 482, fig. 1, $). 
Pajpilio Machaon , var. Asiatica, Menetries, Enum. Corp. Anim. Mus. Petrop. Ins. i. p. 70 (1855). 
Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, p. 136. Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 205. 
Alpheraky, Rom. Mem. Lep. v. p. 60 (1889). Heyne, in Kiihl, Gross-Schmett. p. 694 (1895). 
Papilio Asiatica, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 258. Butler, id. l.c. 1886, p. 377, ib. Ann. 
Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 205. 
Papilio Machaon, Kollar, Hiigel’s Kaschmir, iv. pt. 2, p. 406 (1844). Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepal, p. 6, 
pi. 3, fig. 1 (1846). Hutton, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1847, p. 47. Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. 
E. I. C. i. p. Ill (1857). Lang, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, p. 101. Stoliczka, Verb. Z. B. Ges. 
Wien. 1866, p. 866. 
Papilio Machaon Sphyrus (pt.), Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 275 (1895). 
Papilio Machaon Sphyrus, de Niceville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 592. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside black. Cilia alternated with yellow. Forewing with 
the base densely irrorated with yellow scales; a pale yellow outwardly-oblique bar 
crossing outer third of the cell, a similar bar within apex of the cell, an inner-discal 
oblique transverse macular band widening posteriorly, the portions being broadly 
divided by the black veins, followed by a submarginal row of small more or less 
oblong spots, the outer-discal black area being medially-traversed more or less 
by minute yellow scales. FLindwing with the black abdominal border speckled with 
yellow scales, and clothed with long yellowish-grey hairs; a broad yellow inner 
band divided by narrow black veins, the portions outside apex of the cell being 
sometimes small and disconnected, followed by a submarginal row of broad yellow 
