( :5-^4 ) 

 Qj): P. polytes nicanor IVld. [<?,?]• 



(J ? . PtipiUo nlphenoi; Boisduval {nee Cramer, 1779), Spec. Gin. Lip. I. p. 274. ii. 97 (1830) 



(*' Celebes" loc. err. out auhi^p. (dt."). 

 (J ?. Pap'iUo iiicanor Felder, Verh. z. b. Ges. Wien p. 319. n. 39G (1864) (Batjan : Halmahera ; 



HO«i. «(«/.) : id., Reise Xorani, Lep. I. p. 102. n. 78. t. 10. f. c. d (1805) (Uatjan) ; Wall., Tr. 



Lhiii. Snr. Loml. XXV. p. 53. n. 65 (18G5) (Batjan : Gilolo : Jlort.v) ; Oberth., Kl. .I'F.iit. IV. 



p. 48. n. 81 (1879) (/).;).) ; id., Ami. Mim. Cir. Gniom XV. p. 474. n. 17 (1880) (Halmahera ; 



Ternate) : Standing. iN; Schatz, Ex„f. Srhm. I. p. 7. t. 3 ((J, ? ) (1884) : Biitl., .4»». .Uag. X. 



H. (5). XIII. p. 197. n. 44 (1884) (Ternate). 



S. Tailless; liiiidwiiigs with submarginal spots on the iipporside ; marginal 

 spots of the forewiugs large, strongly haniinerhead-shaped. 



? . ^Mouomorpbic, as far as we know at present ; similar to P. pohjlea alphenor 

 ?-f. alphenor Cram., but hindwings not provided with a prominent tooth or tail. 

 Ternate /ejjia/es are often indistinguishable from Amboina specimens of alphenor. 



Hub. Batjan (5 cj, 6 ?); Halmahera (3 <?, 3 ?); Ternate (4 J); Morty. 



126. Papilio ambrax Boisd. [c?,?]. 



(J. Papilio ambrax Boisduval, Voi/. Astrolabe, Ent. p. 40. n. 5 (1832) (New Guinea) ; id.. Spec. 



Gen. Up. I. p. 218. n. 35 (1836) (" ? " ex err.). 

 ? . Papilio orophines Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. I. p. 275. n. 98 (1836) (" Pris au pays des Papous 



ou anx Moluquea "). 

 S ? . Papilio ambnu-, De Harm, Verh. Kat. Gesch. Ned. overz bez. p. 32. t. 7. f. 1 (J). 2 ( ? ) (1840) 



(New Guinea) ; Doubl. Westw. & Hew., Gen. niiirii. Lep. I. p. 12. n. 81 (1846) ; Gray, Cm. 



Lep. Lis. B. M. I. p. 22. n. 98 (1852) (New Guinea) ; Blanch., Voij. au Pule Siul. IV. p. 378. 



t. 1. f. 3. 4 (1853) (New Guinea) : Gray, List Lep. /«.s. B. il. I. p. 29. n. 103 (1856) ; 



Vollenhov., Tijdschr. i: Ent. III. p. 74. n. 32 (186u) (New Guinea) ; Fold., Verh. z. b. Ges. 



Wien p. 320. n. 415. & p. 368. n. 245 (1864) (" Batjan," -'Ternate " lor. err.) ; Wall., Tr. Linn. 



Soc. Land. XXV. p. 54. n. 67 (1865) (Mysol ; Salvatty : Dorey) ; Oberth., El. d'Kttl. IV. 



p. 49. n. 86 (1879) (New Guinea) : id., Ann. Mus. Cir. Genora XV. p. 473. n. 16 (1880) (Dutch 



& Brit. New Guinea) : Snellen, Tijd^chr. v. Ent. XXXII. p. 394 (1889) (Andai) ; Grose 



Smith, Nor. Zool. p. 333. n. 7 (1894) (Humboldt Bay). 

 ?. Papilio pohjte>:, Kirsch, .]lith. .\lns. Dresden I. p. 112. n. 3 (1877) (Andai & Dorey) : Snellen, 



Tijdschr. V. Ent. XXXII. p. 394 (1889) (Andai). 



We must distinguish three geograpliical races of thi^; insect : — 



(a) : P. ambrax Boisd. from New (iuinea, Waigeu, ^ly.sol, Salwalty ; 



(b) : P. ambrax epirus Wall, fi'oni the Aru Islands ; and 



(c) : P. ambrax erjipius Misk. from (Queensland. 



Wallace's " P. umbracia " is nothing but an aberration of P. ambrax, with which 

 it occurs together in all places. The most variable of the three subspecies is certainly 

 P. ambrax, which exhibits in either se.x two forms, that are connected, however, by 

 every intergradation ; in the mule sex a number of specimens have ou the forewiugs 

 above a subapical white patch which is absent from other specimens, and in the 

 female there is a large wliite patch at tbe anal angle of the forewiugs in some 

 individuals, while in others the wing is black. This variation is worthy of note, as 

 the Australian form of P. ambrax exhibits always the white subapical patch in the 

 male and the white anal one in the female, thus showing again, what we see in so 

 many species of Pajiilio, that certain individual characters of a variable species 

 become con.^tant in certain districts. 



(a): P. ambrax Hoisd., forma tyji. [cJ,?]- 

 (J. The white area on the hindwings is inconstant in breadth and sliajie; mostly 

 it extends in the cell about 2 uim. bevond the origin of the upi>er discoidal nervule, 

 but often it stops at the base of that vein; the iiiternervular jiartsof the area are 



