PAPILIONID^E.-PAPILIONIN.E. 



ORNITHOPTERA. I. 



I.— OENITHOPTEEA VICTORIA. Figs. 1, 2. 



Diiiilliopiivd Victori(v, Gray, iVor. Zool. Soc, 1856, p. 7, pi. xxxix. ; Henley 

 Grose Smith, Ann. N<(t. Hist., (5) xix., p. 445 (1887). 



Male. Upperside. Anterior wings velvety black, -the basal three-fourths 

 of the cell, and two-thirds of the space beneath the cell to the inner margin, 

 golden green. Towards the apex is another large patch of golden gi-een, 

 triangular, the base of the triangle being just below the first discocellular 

 nervule ; between the basal a^d apical patch of colour is a brownish-black 

 sericeous space. Posterior wings velvety black ; the space between the costa 

 and the cell, the basal part of the cell, and the basal part of the median nervules, 

 green; three submarginal oval golden-gi-een spots between the nervules, the 

 first being situate below the second subcostal nervule, each of the two lower 

 spots being centred with a bright orange ovate spot ; the rest of the wings, 

 except the fold, more or less irrorated with green ; the abdominal fold only 

 extends down two-thirds of the wings, causing the appearance of an excavation 

 at the anal angle of the wing. 



Both wings are comparatively narrow ; the cell on the upper wings is very 

 broad, and on the lower wings is elongated. 



Underside, both wings golden green ; anterior wings, costa and nervures, 

 black ; an irregular black patch towards the upper part of the end of the cell, 

 and beyond it, with a few scattered green scales and four submarginal lunular 

 l)lack spots between the nervules ; the space above the inner margin almost as 

 far as the cell devoid of scales, and brownish-grey. Posterior wings with 

 elongated or ovate black spots at the ends of the nervures, and two orange spots 

 near the margin as on the upper side. 



Anterior margin and nervures narrowly black. 



Head, thorax, and antenna, black. Abdomen, ochraceous ; a row of black 

 spots on each side. 



Expanse of wings, 6-|th inches. 



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