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Sub-Family Papilioninie (Bates), Genws Papilio (Fabricius) 



Group Oenithoptera (Boisduval). 



PLATE L. 

 PAPILIO (OBNITHOPTEBA) GASSANDBA, Scott. 



$ Nearly allied to P. Richmondla Gray, but nearly as large as 

 P. Priamus Linn, which it resembles in the pattern of the front 

 wings above ; hind wings as in P. Richmondia, but the upper- 

 most spot sometimes enlarged ; the green bands of front wings 

 and the whole of hind wings exhibiting strong coppery reflections 

 in certain lights as in P. Richmondia ; abdomen of a deeper 

 yellow than in P. Richmondia or P. Priamus. 



Front wings below nearly as in P. Priamus, but the discal row 

 of black spots broader and connected into a band, and the green 

 patch in cell redu.ced to two small spots ; hind wings nearly as in 

 P. Richmondia, but the costal area, up to the yellow submarginal 

 spots, filled in with black ; body below with black thorax spotted 

 with crimson at junction with wings ; abdomen yellow; expanse 

 of wings 6 inches 4 lines. 



Queensland. Coll. Brit. Museum. 



The female of this species was described and figured by Mr. 

 Scott {Tr. Ent. Sac. N. S. W. 1, 2, p. 131, pi. 10), but the male 

 was then unknown to him ; there are two males and a female in the 

 Collection of the British Museum, and also a female, from Lizard 

 Island, of what I take to be a variety of the same species : as will 

 be seen, from the above comparative description, this species is 

 clearly intermediate between P. Priamus of Linnaeus and P. Rich- 

 mondia oi G. E. Gray. 



