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Show 1881.] OF AMURLAND, NORTH CHINA, AND JAPAN. 873 PAPILIO PAMMON, Linn. Mus. Ulr. p. 189 (1764). P. pammon, var. Borealis, Feld. Wien. ent. Mon. vi. p. 22 (1862). Japan {De VOrsa), Yokohama {Pryer) ; Shanghai {Pryer), Ningpo {Felder). I cannot follow in Shanghai specimens the characters by which Felder separates the variety Borealis; the female, however, differs from any I have seen in the absence of the white spots on the hind wing above, which are replaced by pinkish. P. HELENUS, Linn. Mus. Ulr. p. 185 (1764). P. nicconicolens, Butler, Ann. &Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vii. p. 139. The Japanese insect, which seems rare, differs, according to Butler, in the form of the spots on the hind wing. I have, however, compared the type of P. nicconicolens (a name which should be rejected, as barbarous) with Indian and Chinese specimens, and think that it can at most be considered as a variety of helenus, some specimens of which from Hongkong and Darjeeling are very near it. P. MEMNON, Linn. Mus. Ulr. p. 193 (1764). P. thunBergii, Siebold, Hist. Nat. Jap. p. 16 (1824). P. thunBergii, Sieb., Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vii. p. 133. If this species presented a constant variation in Japan, there might have been some reason for separating it; but the few specimens I have seen from Japan are not all alike, aud vary as they do elsewhere. The females seem to be tailless in Japan. I have not seen it from Central or North China. P. SARPEDON, Linn. Mus. Ulr. p. 202. P. teredon, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. i. p. 61 (1865). Not rare in Central Japan. The form described by Felder as P. teredon is from Ceylon ; and I cannot see why the Japanese insect, which appears identical with Himalayan specimens, should be referred to it, as has been done by Mr. Butler in his list of the Butterflies of Nikko (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vii. p. 133). P. AGAMEMNON, Linn. Mus. Ulr. p. 202. Recorded by De l'Orza from Japan ; but I have seen no specimens from there, though it occurs in Pryer's collection from Shanghai. P. ERITHONIUS, Cram. Pap. Ex. iii. t. 232 (1782). I have only seen specimens from Foochow (Pryer). P. ALEBION, Gray, Cat. Lep. B. M. i. p. 30, t. xii. fig. 6. North China, ? Shanghai (Fortune) ; Kiukiang (Maries). The Chinese representative of P. glycirion. P. tamerlanus, Oberthur, Et. Ent. ii. p. 13, t. ii. fig. 1 (1876), from Moupin, which I have seen in Dr. Staudinger's collection^ seems the same as P. alebion. |