( 188 ) 



(fl): T. priamus poseidon (Douhl.) [(S.2. meiam.]. 



(J. Papilio priamus var., Quoy et Gaim., I'l);;. f/i ITraii. p. 551. t. 83. f. 3 (1815) (Rawak) ; Tlion, 



Enl. Archir. p. 125 (1828). 

 (J 9 . Oriiithuptera priamus, Lucas (««<■ lAnni, 1858), i^/). JEj»/. t. 1 ((J) (1835). 

 ^. Oriiillio/ikra jmaridon Doubleday, Auii. Jfuij. S. II. XIX. p. 173 (1847) (Darnley I.) ; Westw., 



Cub. Or. Enl. p. 23. t. 11 (<J) (1848). 

 (J?. Papilio primomus Gray, C'«^ ic/j. /<w. li. M. I. p. 2. n. .3. t. 1. f. 1 ((J). 2 (?) (1852) 



(Cape York) : id., List Lep. Ins. B. M. I. p. 2. n. 3 (185G) : Feld.. Verh. z. I,. Ges. Wieu p. 2',in. 



n. 11 (18G4). 

 (J. Papilio poseidoH, Gi&y, Cut. Lep. Ins. B. .V. I. p. 3. n. 5 (1852) : id.. List Lep. Ins. IS. .U. I. p. 3. 



n. 5 (1856) ; Feld., Verh. ::. h. Ges. M'ien p. 291). ii. 17. & p. 333. n. 13 (18i;4). 

 <J. Ornithoptera arcJiitlaeus, Felder, Wien. ICnt. Muii. III. p. 2('i4. n. 12 (185!l) (New Guinea). 

 J ?. Ornilliopiira jioseidm, VollenhoTen, Tijilsi-hr. r. Enl. III. p. 70. n. 2. ,S- p. 89(1860) (Xew 



Guinea) ; Wall., Tr. Linn. Soc. Loml. XXV. p. 35. n. 2 (1865) : Godm. & Salv., P. Z. ,S. p. 647 



(1878) (D'Entrecasteaux Is. and Possession Bay): Ribbe, /(v.s- III. p. 41 (1890) (Key Is.); 



Tryon, Report Adiuinstr. Brit. N. Guin. II. App. V. p. 112 (1892) ; Rippon. Icon. Oniilh. text 



(1895). 

 (J. Papilio trilon Felder, Verh. z. h. Ges. Wien p. 290. n. 16. & p. 332. n. 12 (1864) (Rawak). 

 (J ?. Papilio pegasns Felder, Verb. j. b. Ges. Wien p. 290. n. 18 (1864) (New Guinea ; nom. nml.)  



Felder, Reise ^orara, Lep. I. p. 6. n. 4. t. 2. f. a (cJ )■ b ( ? ) (1864) (Dorey). 

 (J ?. Ornilhoptera pegasus, Kirsch, Milth. Mus. Dresden I. p. 1 10. n. I. t. 5(1877) (New Guinea) : 



Grose Smith, A'oi-. Zool. p. 331. n. 1. (1894) (Humboldt Bay). 

 Oniitho/itera 2'ronomus, Koch, Indo-Au.itral. Lep. Fauna p. 37 (1865); Mathew. Tr. Ent. Sor. 



Land. p. 168 (1888) (life hist.). 

 (J 9 . Ornithoptera priamus var. pronnmns, Semper, Jouru. .l/iis. Godeffroij, Heft 14. p. 41. sub. n. 128 



(1878) (Cape York ; '• Rockhampton ' loc. err. ?) ; Fickert, Xool. Jahrb. p. 706. n. 6 (1889). 

 (J ? . Ornithoptera priamus var. urruamis (!), Oberthiir, El. d' Enl. IV. p. 27. sub. n. 1 (1870) (New 



Guinea & Aru Is). 

 cJ ?. Ornithoptera priamus -var. niranno, Oberthiir, .4 hh. Mus. Cii: Genom XV. p. 46. f. n. 1 (1880) ; 



Fickert, Zool. Jahrb. p. 704 n. 5. t. 20. f. 3 ((J), 4 (?) (1889) ; Ribbe, Iris III. p. 39 (1890) 



(Aru Is. ; larv. & pup.). 

 (J ?. Ornilhoptera priamus, Ribbe, Iris I. p. 77. n. 1 (1886) (Aru Is.), 

 cj. Ornilhoptera jyriamus y3.r. pegasus, Fickert, Zool. Jahrb. p. 707. n. 8 (1889). 

 (J. Omithiptfra priamus var. hecuba Rober, Tijdschr. r. Ent. XXXIV. p. 263((J,n/e ?)(1891) 



(Key Is.). 

 ?. Ornilhoptera eumaeus, Rippon, Ann. Mag. N. 11. (6). X. p. 193 (?, nee (J) (1892) (Aru Is.); 



id., Icon. Ornitli. text & plate (?,)(<<■(?) (1892). 

 J ? . Ornithoptera arruann var. ralentina Vuillot, Bull. Soc. Ent. France p. 124 (1892) (Pt. Moresby ; 



dwarfed sj/ecimens). 

 cJ. Ornithoptera pi'gasii^ var.. Pagenstecher. .folnb. Xans. Ver. Xat. p. 63. n. 1. t. l- f. 1 (J) (1894) 



(New Guinea). 



Fourteen names have been bestowed on thi.s subspecies of T. priaimiii. The 

 respective authors were mostly under the erroneovis impression that certain characters 

 were restricted to the individuals from certain districts, and so it caiin' lh;it the 

 specimens from Cape Yoi-k, from I)ai-nley Island, New (iuinea, Aru Islands, 

 Waigeu, etc., have been regarded as Ijelonging to a number of distinct species. But 

 in a long series of individuals from one locality, .say from Waigou or (iern)an New 

 Guinea, all these so-called species or local forms w'ill be foimd together; whilst, on the 

 other hand, only a small proportion of tiie specimens from the Aru Islands are 

 typical ami/oms, from Waigeu archideas, from (/ape '\'ork pronoinus, etc. The dis- 

 tinguishing characteis of those "species," "varieties," and "aberrations" ai'e entirely 

 individual, and the fouiteen forms must be treated as individual aberrations of one 

 local race, of which the oldest name is poseidon (Doubl.). As these aberrations of 

 poseidon are, however, mostly based on very unim])0ifant characters, which, moreover, 

 are partly refound in several of the named variations; further, as scarcely two 



