•iG PAPILIONID.E. PAPILIONINiE. PAPILIO. 



XXXII.— PAPILIO HICETAON. rf . Figs. 3, 4. 



P cqnl io Hkctaon, um\e, ^lathew, "Proceedings Zoological Society," 1886, 

 p. 350. 



Exp. 4f inches. 



Male. Uppeeside. Differs little from P. Browni, but the lower part of 

 the discal band of spots, below the lowest median nervule to the inner margin, 

 is wider than in P. Bromii, but narrower than in P. WaUacci, and the sub- 

 marginal band of small spots is more represented. On the posterior wings the 

 sub-basal green spot is absent. 



Underside. On the anterior wings at the base is a crimson streak, on the 

 posterior wings the crimson streak before the middle of the costa to the 

 subcostal nervure is broader and more extended than in P. Brown i, and outside 

 it is a small green spot (absent in some specimens) ; there is only one large 

 crimson spot towards the anal angle, and in some specimens there is another 

 indistinct crimson patch at the end of the cell in the angle between the two 

 lowest median nervules. 



Hab. Solomon Islands. 



The female does not differ from the male except in size ; on the posterior 

 wings are two or three indistinct submarginal pale spots, and the anterior wings 

 are more elongated apically. 



lu the Collections of Mr. Grose-Smith and others. It is a larger insect than either 

 P. Wallacei or P. Browni. 



