( •^■■'•7 ) 



Hall. Tenimber (W. Doherty, June to July 18'J2j (9 J, ;5 ? j ; 15abber (W. Doherty. 

 July 1892) (1 cJ). 



Note. — The area occupied by the species allied to jophon is discontinuous, no 

 representatives having been found in the countries lying between the ranges of 

 pandiyanKS (S.W. India) ard oreon (Sumba, Alor). — K. J. 



32. Papilio polyphontes Boisil. [J,?]. 



PiipiUo jiiilj/iliiiiiles Boisduval, Sjier. Gin. Lep. I, 20H. ii. 91 (183ti) (Celebes) ; De Haan, Virli. Nat. 

 Gescli. AVrf. orer:. hex. p. 39 ((J, ncc ?) (1840): ^ — P. polytis titexeus J -f . loc. timorennis 

 Feld.) ; Doubl. Westw. & Hew., Gen. Diimi. Lep. I. p. 9. n. 23 (1840) (si/nnn. ex p.) ; Gray, 

 Cat. Lep. Ins. B. M. I. p. 11. n. 39 (1852) (synon. ex p.) ; id.. List Lep. Ins. B. M. I. p. 12. n. 43 

 (1856) {synon. ex p.) : Yollenhov., Tijdsckr. v. Ent. III. p. 79. n. 74 (1860) {sub synon.) ; 

 Feld., Verli. z. h. Ges. Wkn p. 326. n. 485 (18i;4) (Celebes) : Wall., Tr. Linn. Soc. Loml. XXV. 

 p. 43. n. 28 (1865) (Celebes ; Batjan ; Morty) : Hopff., .S7r■/^ Ent. Zeit p. 21. n. 20 (1874) 

 (Celebes) : Piepers & Snellen, TijJsehr. r. Ent. XXI. p. 40. n. 159 (1878) (Saleyer ; Bonthain : 

 Balangnipa ; Bantimoerong ; not rare ; " polyphontis is perhaps only a large variety of polyilorus " 

 ex. en:) ; Oberth.. Ei. d'Ent. IV. p. 44. n. 59 (1879) (Celebes ; Halmahera ; "Jophon Gray = 

 5 piilyjilioHtes Boisd."! ex err.); id., Ann. Mus. Cir. Genova. XV. p. 472. n. 11 (1880) 

 (Halmahera) ; Standing. & Schatz, Exnl. Selnnelt. I. p. 6 (1884) ; Bull., Ann. .Uay. N. II. (5). 

 XII. p. 197. n. 48 (1884) (Ternate) ; Holland, Proc. Boston Soc. N. II. p. 77. n. 126 (1890) 

 (Celebes) ; Rothsch., Iris V. p. 442 (1892) (S.E. Celebes). 



Papilio kohotes De Haan, Verh. Nat. Gesch. Ned. orcrz. hez. p. 38 (1840) {p.p. ; ? " with pmlonged, 

 broad, parallel tails"). 



Papilio polydorns, Pagenstecher, Jalirh. Nass. Ver. Nat. p. 202 (1884) {p.p.). 



This species is considered by several entomologists [cf Snellen (I.e.). Pagen- 

 stecher (i.e.)] as a tailed variety of P. polydorus h. ; the two insects have, however, 

 nothing to do with one another. The fore- and hindwings of 2^olydoru8 a.\)d poly- 

 plioides are differently shaped ; the abdominal fold of the male is very small in 

 polyphontes, rather large in polydorus ; the polyphontes from Ternate and Halmahera 

 have an orange red front of the head, whereas in polydorus from the Northern 

 Moluccas the head is entirely black. 



The specimens from the Northern iMoluccas do not seem to be sub.specifically 

 distinguishable from those from Celebes, Sulla Islands, and Talaut, though my 

 specimens show a very slight difference in the colour of the head, the latter being 

 more or less blackish just before the antennae in the Celebes, Sulla, and Talaut 

 individuals, whereas the front of the head is of a uniform reddish colour in the 

 examples from the Northern ^Moluccas. 



(«*) : ab. ?•(«?((.«( tlieith. 



Popiliu jiulyphmiti-s viir. rosia Oberthiir, El. d'Enl. IV. p. 113. .sub n, 59 (1879) (Celebes). 



])iscal [patch ol hindwings red instead of white. 

 This form is known only from Celebes. 



Hab. Celebes(ll J, 4 $); Sulla Islands (Mangola Island : 1J,1 j); Talaut(lc?, 

 3 $); Batjan (1 j); Ternate (3 $); Halmahera (1 (?,2$); Morty. 



Note. — About the differences in the .scaling of tlie abdominal folds of Jc? in 

 P. polyphontes and P. polydo'nis, see p. 252, sub n, 39 — K. J. 



