PAP BON EDs As. 
ORNITHOPTERA. 
ORNITHOPTERA BROOKIANA. 1. 
Ornithoptera Brookiana. Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc., 1855. 
Uprrrsipr. Male, black, with a broad longitudinal band of golden green from 
near the apex of the anterior wing to the inner margin of the posterior wing. On 
the anterior wing, below the middle, divided into seven hastate spots pointing to the 
outer margin, which they nearly touch. On the posterior wing at the middle divided 
by the nervures, which are black. Abdominal margin with a fold, as in some of the 
Papilios. 
Unpersipe black. Anterior wing with a line of blue at the base of the costal 
nervure ; a longitudinal band just below the median nervure, and composed of four 
spots, the first, commencing at the base blue and ending green, followed (one 
between each of the median nervules) by three large sagittiform spots pointing 
upwards. Posterior wing with a ray of blue just below the costal nervure near its 
base and a line of grey triangular or diamond-formed spots (the latter divided by the 
nervules) near and parallel to the outer margm. Each wing with a crimson spot at 
the base. 
The body belted twice with crimson. 
Expan. 63% in. Hab. Borneo. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
This is very unlike any other species of Ornithoptera. Besides its marked difference in form, it 
possesses the abdominal fold as in some of the Papilios, but of greater extent than most of them, and 
when unfolded, more than half an inch across, and filled inside by a quantity of exceedingly fine 
elastic rufous hairs. It has been named by Mr. Wallace, in compliment to Captain Brooke, the 
Rajah’s brother. 
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