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Show 364 MESSRS. BUTLER AND DRUCE ON THE [June 2, . 365. PAPILIO MYLOTES. Papilio mylotes, Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, vol. v. p. 346, note (1861). 366. PAPILIO PHILENOR. Papilio philenor, Linnaeus, Mant. Plant, p. 535 (1771); Smith & Abbot, Lep. Georg. i. pi. 3 (1797). 367- PAPILIO POLYDAMAS. Papilio polydamas, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 192 (1764); Drury, 111. Ex. Ent. i. pi. 17. figs. 1, 2 (1773). 368. PAPILIO CLUSOCULIS. Papilio clusoculis, Butler, Cist. Ent. iv. p. 85 (Jan. 1872) ; Lep. Exot. pi. lviii. fig. 2 (1874). 369. PAPILIO BRANCHUS. 2 . Papilio branchus, Doubleday, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, xviii. p. 373 (1846); Gray, Cat. Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. i. p. 62. n. 277, pi. 7. fig. 3 (1852). Slightly larger than the type ; this species is almost exactly alike in both sexes. It is represented in the collection of the British Museum from Guatemala, Polochic valley, &c. 370. PAPILIO RHODOSTICTUS, n. sp. Wings above sepia-brown, fringes varied with creamy whitish, an oblique bifid elongate cream-coloured spot crossing median nervure at end of cell in primaries; a large quinquefid rosy patch just beyond cell of secondaries, the two outer spots of the patch being very small, also a spot of the same colour at anal angle ; body sepia-brown ; head yellow-spotted;* neck red-spotted: wings below altogether lighter in tint, primaries becoming paler towards apex ; a trifid creamy transverse oblique patch, cut by the median nervure and second median branch ; secondaries with an oblique postmedian series of four rosy spots placed between the median branches and the radials immediately beyond cell; a discal waved or subangulated scries of seven rosy spots, the first three parallel to margin, and small, the fourth larger, the fifth and sixth large, irrorated with whitish internally, and touching the postmedian series, the seventh large, but divided by a central black bar into two small spots, the apical spot irrorated with white ; fringe at anal angle reddish ; body brown, thorax spotted with orange. Expanse 3 inches 5 lines. Belongs to the P. anchisiades group. 371. PAPILIO SERVILLEI. Papilio servillei, Godart, Enc. Me'th. ix. Suppl. p. 809 (1823). Papilio columbus, Kollar, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.- nat. CI. i. p. 351. n. 1, pi. 42. figs. 1, 2 (1850). |