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to the narrow, irregular, and partly macular border ; the inci- 

 sions are pale yellow. This yellow band is marked with a row 

 of large black spots between the nervures ; and, nearest the 

 anal angle, the pale spots are longest, and are mostly white with- 

 in the black spots. On the under side, which we have figured, 

 the white is more extended, and invades the outer part of the 

 cell. 



This fine Butterfly has been met with in Amboina, Ceram, 

 Ternate, Celebes, the Sula Islands, Morty Island, and Halma- 

 hera. 



There is one African Butterfly which is now considered to 

 belong to Ornithoptera, or to an allied genus. This is Papilio 

 zalmoxis, Hewitson, which measures about seven inches across 

 the wings, which are broader and more rounded than in the 

 typical Eastern Butterflies of this group. The male is of a 

 rather pale blue, with black borders, slightly spotted with blue 

 on the hind-wings, and with black lines between the nervures 

 towards the margins, and a black costa on the fore-wings. The 

 male is now fairly common in collections from West Africa, but 

 the female, which is of a yellowish-grey instead of blue, is still 

 very rare in our Museums. 



THE GENUS PAPILIO, LATREILLE. 



We have already mentioned that Linnaeus originally included 

 all the Lepidoptera^ and afterwards all the Butterflies under the 

 genus Papilio* dividing it into various sub-genera, &c., among 

 which were Eques&b&Nyniphalis. In 1801 Schrank restricted 

 Papilio to Nymphalis ; but in 1805, Latreille, who set aside 



* Cf. vol. i. p. 3, et seq. 



