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MR. A. R. WALLACE ON THE PAPILIONID^ 



flight, jfrequent the most luxuriant forest-districts, seem to love the shade, and are the 

 objects of mimicry by other Papilios. 



Section B consists of woak-bodied, large-winged insects, Avith an ii-regular wavering 

 flight, and which, when resting on foliage, often expand the wings, which the species 

 of the other sections rarely or never do. They are the most conspicuous and strikLng of 

 of eastern Butterflies. 



Section C consists of much weaker and slower-flpng insects, often resembling in their 

 flight, as well as in their colovu's, species of Danaidtc. 



Section D contains the strongest-bodied and most swift-flying of the genus. • They 

 love sunlight, and frequent the borders of streams and the edges of puddles, where 

 they gather together in swarms consisting of several species, greedily sucking up the 

 moisture, and, when distui'bed, circling round in the air, or flying high and with great 

 strength and rapidity. 



In the following Talkie I have arranged all the Malayan Papilionidae in what appears 

 to me their most natural succession, and have exhibited theu" distribution in twenty-one 

 columns of localities, extending from the Malay peninsula, on the north-west, to Woodlark 

 Island, near New Guinea, on the south-east. The double line divides the Indo-Malayan 

 from the Austro-Malayan region ; and those islands which form natui-al zoological groups 

 are connected by brackets. 



Table showing the Distribution of the Malayan PapUionidse. 



