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spot at the anal angle is mostly joined to the black border of the wing ; at the anal 

 sinus there stands a white (not yellow) marginal spot ; tails thinly bordered with 

 white, the white colour not or a very little more pronounced at the tip of the tail. 



The whole of the upperside, int'luding the subapical wliite band, is covered with 

 both layers of scales. 



Underside : forewings as above, but with the Isase of the cell green, which 

 colour shows often through on the upperside, and the apical third of the wing often 

 tinged with buff. The subinarginal white or huffish white liand is not, or very feebly, 

 suffused with black posteriorly, thus separating the marginal and submarginal black 

 bands for the whole length ; the nervules traversing it much thinner black. The 

 cellular black bands longer and mostly broader than above ; the second (counted 

 from the base) extends beyond the median nervure. 



Hindwings with the same markings as in P. antiphates Cram. The abdominal 

 and subbasal black lines, which are joined to one another posteriorly, are scarcely 

 broader than in P. antiphates ; the median black band is about half as broad again 

 as these lines, or broader ; it is also joined posteriorly to the extremity of the 

 abdominal and subbasal lines by means of two, mostly ill-defined, black sjiots situated 

 between the iipper and lower median nervules ; the discal series of black spots, 

 standing outside the median band and ending with the anal black mark, consists of 

 very large patches, which are connected with the median band and touch each other ; 

 the black .spot in the apex of the cell not larger than in antiphates Cram. ; the anal 

 black mark is clearly separated from the end of the abdominal black line ; the 

 submarginal black markings, which in P. epaminondas Oberth. are so well separated 

 from the marginal spots, are larger and less irregular than in that species ; the three 

 anterior ones stand separate, the fourth is joined to the marginal spot, extends along 

 the upper median vein, and reaches (or almost so) the corresponding discal black 

 spot ; the two posterior ones, standing between the median veins, are merged 

 together with the marginal spots, the whitish markings bordering them exteriorly 

 in P. nntiphates being seldom slightly marked. The yellow scaling inside the 

 submarginal black spots in P. epaminondas forms here two or three j'ellow spots 

 in the caudal region ; the two posterior ones are entirely (or almost so) enclosed 

 in lilack, and are thus rendered very conspicuous. 

 ? . Unknown. 



Hah. Halmahera (\V. Doherty, August 1892) (8 <?). 



I should not have ventured to treat this insect as distinct from P. antiphates 

 Cram., if it were not for the sealing of the upperside of the forewings, which is 

 remarkably different from that of antiphates and its races. In P. antiphates, 

 epaminondas, and androcles the ujiper scales on the light parts of the forewings 

 above, in the costal and apical region, have developed into short hairs, and the under 

 scales are obliterated, while in P. ornatus vo. the scales of both layers are present all 

 over the wing and do not assume the character of hairs. 



As in respect to pattern no character appears in P. ornatus which is altogether 

 new, all the distinguishing points being niodilications of the characters oi aniiphates, 

 and as, further, the scaling of many Papilios varies under the influence of altered 

 conditions of life (compare P. afjamemnon and its races, P. podalirius), I think it 

 possible that a connecting link between ornatus and antiphates will be found. 



Kote. — Prof. Eimer, I.e. p. 142, .says that the races of /'. antiphates Cram, are 

 inclined to assume a greenish tint on the u])perside of the wings, especially in the 



