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1960 Journal of the Lepidopterists Society 175
(3) Origins and internal phytogeny of the Papilionini. This problem continues to present many points of uncertainty. The most probable origin of the tribe still appears to be from the higher Graphiini. The presence of the spine of the discrimen is a point of similarity between Papilionini and Troidini that can be added to the well-known ones. This spine is lacking, however, in Battus, the troidine genus that has other PapiZ/o-like characters. Dabasa, unlike other Graphiini, has the spine, though weakly. This would support the possibility that this genus arose close to the point of separation of Papilionini from Graphiini. On the whole it seems likely that the spine has been acquired independently in the Papilionini and the Troidini. It is obvious that final answers on the precise ancestry of the Papilionini are not possible on the evidence available to us. Still less can the vexed questions of the internal phylogeny of the Papilionini be properly resolved. This must await the results of more comprehensive studies than time or material have permitted us to make.
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congr., Auckland, 1949 4: 83-87. Munroe, Eugene, in press. The generic classification of the Papilionidae. Canadian
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(EGM) Entomology Research Institute, Research Branch, Canada Agriculture,
Ottawa, Ont., CANADA and
(PRE) Dept. of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., U. S. A.
A NEW ENTOMOLOGICAL SERIAL
The Society Library has received the first two numbers of Esakia published by the Hikosan Biological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. They include nine short papers by present or former members of the laboratory shaff; among these are two by Hiroshi Kuroko describing new microlepidoptera (Gracilariidae and Cosmopterygidae). The issues are well illustrated by photos and line drawings. Members desiring further information are advised to write to the Chief of the Laboratory, Professor Keizo Yasumatsu.
P. F. Bellinger