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 30. Papilio oreon Doherty [(?, ?]. 



(5 ?. Papilio (Menelaides) urevn Dohurty, Juiini. As. Soc. Bern;, p. 192. n. 109 (18'JI) (Sumba). 

 Fapil/o godmani Riiber, Tijthch: r. Ent. XXXIV. p. 271 (18',11) (AJor) ; id., I.e. t. 3. f. 1 (1892). 

 Papilio ureon, Pagenatecher, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Nat. p. 57 (1894) (Sumba). 



Combines to a certain extent the eliaracter.s of P. pandiynnus Moore and Itris 

 Godart. The forewings are much more extended whitish than in pnndiyaniis; 

 below, they have a strong gloss when viewed obliquely, owing especially to the 

 scaling being rather dispersed. 



The anterior discal white spot of the underside of the hindwings is exteriorly 

 (and mostly also towards the base) concave, and often extended along the subcostal 

 and costal veins, thus separating from the black border of the wing a black spot 

 which stands at the basal side of the first red submarginal mark ; the posterior white 

 mark varies considerably in size; the other white spots are more triangular than in 

 pandiyunus and jopihon, and exteriorly sinuate. Within the red mark at the anal 

 angle below, there is often a black spot in either sex. The tail has, in Riiber's 

 specimen, red scales at the vein traversing it which are not present in my Alor 

 specimens. 



The up])er median and the lower discoidal veins of the hindwings originate 

 closer together than in either pjandiyanus or jophon, the lower discocellular veinlet 

 being very short ; the upper discocellular veinlet is .shorter than the second one, 

 which is slightly concave ; in this respect P. oreon agrees with P. liris Godart, of 

 which Doherty considers it to be a local form. The shape and pattern of the wings 

 distinguish oreon, however, well enough from liris for it to be treated as a distinct 

 species, the more as no intergradations are known. 



Hab. Sumba ; Alor (4 c?). 



31. Papilio liris Godart [S, ?]. 



J J . Pa/ulia liris Godart, Kiir. .UHk. IX. p. 72. i;i2 (1819) (Timor) ; Boiad., Speo. Gen. Up. I. 

 p. 2G9. n. 92 (1830) (Timor) ; Ue Haan, Fec/i. Nal. Gesch. Ned. overz. hez. p. 38. t. 4. f. 3 ( ? ) 

 (1840) (Timor): Doubl. Westw. & Hew., ft». />;«/■». Lpp. I. p. 9. n. 24 (1846) (Timor; 

 "X.W. Australia" loc. en:) ; Gray, Cat. Lep. Ins. B. M. I. p. 11. n. 40 (1.S52) (" N. Australia'' 

 /'«■. err.) ; id., List Lep. Ins. B. il. I. p. 13. n. 44 (185(5) (" Nortli-West coast of Australia " hic. 

 err.) ; VoUenhov., Tijdschr. r. Ent. III. p. 79. n. 7G (1800) (Timor) : Fuld., Vtrh. s. b. Ges. 

 Wien p. 32(1. n. 462. & p. 375. n. 289 (1804) (Timor ; " Australia sept. Occident." loc. err.) ; 

 Wall., Tr. Linn. Soc. Land. XXV. p. 44. n. 30 (18(;5) (Timor : "X.W. Austral." loc. err.) : 

 Uiiber, Tijdschr. r. Ent. XXXIV. p. 272 (1881) (" Timor Laut '' loe. err.) : Haase, Untersuch. 

 iib. Mini. p. 24 (1893) (Timor ; " N.W. Austral." lor. err.). ' 



The specimens from "N.W. Australia" in the ]5ritish Museum, recorded by 

 Doubleday (I.e.) and Gray (I.e.), agree well with small Timorese individuals and are 

 most probably not from Australia ; as the prt'esent species has developed into several 

 subspecies on the islands of the Timor and Tenimber group, it is hardly acceptable 

 that the typical liris reappears in N.W. Australia. 

 I divide liris into five local races, namely : — 

 («) : P. Una Godart from Timor ; 

 (b) : P. liris wetterensis subsp. now from Wetter; 

 (c) : P. liris senescens Kober from Kisser ; 



(d) : P. liris pallidas subsp. nov. from Letii and .Moa ; 



(e) : P. liris aberrans Butl. from Tenimber and Babber. 



The size and shape of the submarginal spots and the shape of the discoidal cell to 

 the hindwings are not constant. 



