PAPILIONIDJE.-PAPILIONIN^. 



PAPILIO. VII. 



XIIL— PAPILIO ARIEL. $ . Figs. 1, 2. 



Papilio Ariel, Henley Grose Smith, " Entomologist" s McntLly Maga- 

 zine," vol. 25, p. 30:5 (Jmie, 1889). 



Exp. 5} inches. 



Male. Upperside. Both wings black. Anterior wings with a quadrate 

 milky-white patch a little Itcyond the vm\ of the cell, and another conical spot 

 above it ; a very short white line at the junction of the fourtli and fifth subcostal 

 nervules, and an indistinct white line below the quadrate patch. Posterior wings 

 as in P. Laairliiis, Godm. and 8alv. ; l)ut the white band is narrower and less 

 deeply serrated externally. The ferruginous spot above the anal angle in 

 P. Laarchus is nearly obsolete in I'. Ariel, and there is a minute white spot at 

 the anal angle of the latter, which is absent in /'. Laarchus. 



Underside. x\nterior wings brownish-black, with three small and indistinct 

 patches of whitish scales about half-way between the end of the cell and the 

 apex ; small triangular spots on the hind margin between all the veins ; tiie 

 small patch of white scales between the lowest median nervule and the sub- 

 median nervure in P. Laarchus is absent. Posterior wings crossed beyond the 

 cell by a row of seven ill-defined, milky-white lunules, the two middle and the 

 upper lunules almost obsolete ; outside this row is a large ferruginous spot above 

 the anal angle, followed between the veins by four patches of blue scales, the 

 uppermost nearly obsolete, and at the apex an indistinct ferruginous patch ; 

 between the lowest median nervule and submedian nervure is a submarginal 

 ferruginous patch ; and there is a small white lunula at the anal angle. 



Hal). Estrella Bay, Isabel Island, Solomon Islands. (C. M. Woodford.) 



In the Collectiou of Heuley Grose Smitli. 



VOL. I., JANUARY, 1890. C C 



