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LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Papilio trogon, Snellen Van Vollenhoveu, Tidschr. v, Ent. iii. 



p. 69, pi. 6 (1860). 

 Ornithoptera (Trogonoptera) brookeana, Rippon, Icones Ornith. 



part ii. (1890). 



This splendid Butterfly is not only the single green species of 

 the group found on the continent of Asia, but the only known 

 green Indo-Malayan species, except T. trojana. It was first 



Trogonoptera drookcana, <?. 



discovered by Dr. A. R. Wallace, near the coal-mines of Simun- 

 jon, in Sarawak, and named by him after Rajah Brooke. It has 

 since been met with in Sumatra as well as in Borneo, and in 

 Perak and Malacca in the Malay Peninsula. It measures from 

 six to eight inches across the fore-wings, which are black, with a 



