266 Lloyd's natural history. 



We have figured one of the largest and finest species of Orni- 

 ihoptera^ which differs somewhat from the other species of the 

 genus. It is a native of the Moluccas, and was first brought 

 from the island of Amboina, which has always been famous for 

 its splendid Butterflies, and from which nearly all the Moluccan 

 Butterflies known to the entomologists of the last century were 

 obtained. 



ORNITHOPTERA HIPPOLYTUS.* 



{riate LXIV, Fig. 2.) 



Papilio panthous, ?, Clerck (nee Linn.), Icones, pi. 18 (1764). 



Fapilio hippolyfus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 10, figs. A, B; 



pi. II, figs. A, B (1775)- 

 Papilio remus, Fabricius, Gen. Ins. p. 250 (1777); Cramer, /. c. 



ii. pi. 135, fig. A; pi. 136, fig. A (1777); iv. pi. 386, figs. 



A, B (1782); Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 26, no. 3 (1819). 

 Ornithoptera retnus, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lepid. p. 176, no. 3 



(1836). 

 Ornithoptera {Po/npeoptera) hippolytus^ Rippon, Icones Ornith. 



part i. (1890). 

 This is one of the largest species of the group, sometimes 

 measuring nearly eight inches across the wings in the female. 

 The fore-wings are black, with a slight greenish reflection, and 

 with greyish-white rays bordering the nervures on each side 

 (best marked in the females), and extending into the outer part 

 of the cell. In the male, the hind-wings are black, dusted with 

 grey, and bordered with a row of large yellow spots, running 

 from the base of the costa round to the anal angle. On the 

 under side the hind -wings are white, except the marginal black 

 and yellow markings. In the female, the yellow spots are en- 

 larged and lengthened so as to form a band, separated into 

 spots by the nervures, and extending from just beyond the cell 



* 0. remus on plate. 



