(427 ) 



Tlie forewiiigs are broader and their outer margin is less convex than in P. codrus 

 Cram. ; the median band of the forewings is complete, as in P. codrus celehensis 

 Wall. ; the anterior .'iijots are larger than in that subspecies ; the spots are of more 

 uniform size than in all tlie other riVces. In one of my females the spot between the 

 lower median and the submediau veins is broadly divided into two spots, of which the 

 anterior one is minute. 



Hab. Solomon Islands: Maleita, Guadalcanar (11 c?, 4 ?), Alu Island (1 J), 

 Bougainville Island (1 6). 



183. Papilio segonax Godm. & Salv. [c?,?]. 



PapiJIn seijnnax Godman & Salvin, 1'. Z. N. p. 734 (1«78) (N. Ireland). 

 Two local forms are known :— 



{'!)'■ P. segonax Godm. & Salv., forma tjp. [c?,?]- 

 jNIedian macular band narrow ; the spots between the submedian and the upper 

 median veins absent , so that the band consists of five spots in the apical region of the 

 wing and one at the inner margin ; very often there is a seventh, but always minute, 

 spot between the upper and middle median nervules, and sometimes there stands 

 also a minute spot before the submedian nervure ; in this hitter case only the lower 

 median cellule is really devoid of a green mark. 



Hab. Bismarck Archipelago : New Ireland (."j cJ, I ?), New Britain (G J). 

 I must enumerate this Papilio as a distinct species for the same reason which 

 induced me to consider P. imnder Godm. & Salv. distinct (see p. 439). 



(b): P. segonax tenebrionis subsp. nov. [?]. 



Of a darker black colour than the female of P. segonax and any race of 

 P. codrus Cram. Wings shaped as in P. codrus salon Godm. & Salv., tails longer. 

 Median band consisting of six spots, situated in the cellules from the middle median 

 nervule to the apex ; the anterior and the posterior spot small, the others even larger 

 than in P. codrus mclanthus Feld., the fifth extending from the cell half-way to the 

 outer margin of the wing; spot at inner margin of wing wanting. Underside of 

 the forewings with two cellular bands, one in the middle, and another at the apex 

 of the cell, as pale as in P. codnis solon Godm. & Salv. 



Hab. New Georgia, Solomon Islands (1 ?; Captain Webster, 1894). 



184. Papilio empedocles Fabr. [cJ,?]. 



Piipilio Eqii.es Adiirvx empedocha Fabricius, Muiit. Ins. II. p. 111. u. 04 (ITK?) (Ind. or.; Mus. 



Banks) ; id., Eiil. %s/. III. 1. p. 70. u. 217 (1793). 

 Papilio empedwles, Douovaii, Ins. of Jmlia t. 20. f. 1 (1800) ; Godart, En,: Mdh. IX. Sujijil. p. 810. 



n. 68 (1823) ; Boisd., Spec. Gen. Up. I. p. 229. n. 47 (1830) (" Burn " err. loc.) ; Doubl. Westw. 



& Hew., Gen. Diurn. Lep. I. p. 14. n. lOG (1840) (Ind. Arch.) ; Gray, Cat. Lep. Li.i. B. M. I. 



p. 27. n. 127 (1852) (Ind. Arch.) ; Vollenhov., Tijdschr. r. Ent. III. p. 7C. n.43 (1800) (.lava) ; 



Feld., Verh. z. b. Ges. Wien p. 300. n. 237 (1864) (Java ; " Burn? " loc. err.) ; Wall., Tr. Linn. 



Soc. Loml. XXV. p. 05. n. 108 (1865) (Borneo) ; Butler, Cat. Diimi. Lep. dem: Fabric, p. 243. 



n. 34 (1869) (type still in the Banksian coll.); Dnice, P. Z. S. p. 358. n. 26 (1873) ("E. 



India") ; Standing. & Schatz, E.rot. Schmctt. I. p. 10 (1884) ; Standing., his II. p. 17 (1889) 



(Palawan; Borneo; Malacci) ; Hagen, licrl. Ent. Ze.it. p. 155. n. 182 (1892) (Banka I.); 



id., Iris VII. p. 28. n. 40 (1894) (Sumatra). 

 Papilio empedocles =? ? codrus, De llaan, Verh. Nat. Gesch. Ned. overs, bcz. p. 33 (1840) (Java). 

 Papilio codrus var. empedocles, Ribbe, Iris II. p. 212. .sub n. 15 (1890) (Java ; Borneo). 



This is a fairly constant species; my Javan specimens are the smallest, and have 

 the .spots of the forewings not so large as they are in the specimens from Borneo and 



