PAPILIONID^E.-PAPILIONIN^. 



PAPILIO. IV. 



VII.— PAPILIO SOLON. $ . Figs. 1, 2. 



Papilio SoIoJi, Godmau and Salvin, " x\nnals and Magazine of Natiu-al 

 History," ser. 6, vol. 1, p. 213 (March, 1888). 



Male. Allied to P. Codnts, but with the upperside of both wings of a 

 darker glossy-green hue, and with the spots of the anterior wings of a brilliant 

 bluish-green, much as in P. Sarpcdon. The posterior wings are whitish at 

 the base, the outer margin of this colour being more sharply defined than 

 in the allied species. 



Underside much darker than in P. Codrus, and there are indistinct trans- 

 verse bands towards the costa of the anterior wings. 



Female larger than the male, and the wings without the silky-greenish 

 gloss. 



Hab. Aola, Guadalcanar Island, Solomon group (C. M. Woodford). 



In tlie Collections of Henley Grose Smith and Messrs. Godman and Salvin. 



The Solomon Islands contain at least one other species of Pajjilio, of the P. Codrvs group. 

 an allied species, P. Pisidice, being found in Maleita I. The latter differs in having the spots of 

 the anterior vrings of a golden hue, very different from the colour of those of the present species 

 when the two are compared, but in its general appearance P. Sohm. resembles P. Codrus more than 

 any other of this groujj. P. Seyonax, of New Ireland, approaches it in the beautiful silky-green 

 gloss of the wings. That species, however, may at once be distinguished by the band of spots 

 of the anterior wings being interrupted, there being none near the branches of the median vein. 



Mr. Woodford's second Collection from the Island of Guadalcanar contained a good series of 

 specimens of both sexes of this Papilio. — O. S. 



VIII.— PAPILIO MENDANA. 5 . Figs. 3, 4. 



Papilio Mcndana, Godman and Salvin, " Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," ser. 0, vol. 1, p. 212 (March, 1888). 



Male. Upperside. Anterior wings produced and slightly falcate, the 

 outer margin slightly concave, posterior wings tailed, the median vein being 

 produced and bearing a lobe. Wings black, anterior wings with a median row 

 of bluish isolated spots, commencing with a large one on the proximal half of 



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