﻿POMPEOPTERA HELENA. 



Papilio Egnes Trojanus Helena, Clerck, " Icon. Ins." II. t. 22, f. 1 (1764). 

 „ „ ,, „ Linn. "Mus. Lud. Ulr.," p. 199, n. 18 (1764). 



HptttL, " Nat. Hist." I. 11. p. 20, n. 18 (1767). 

 Linn., " Sys. Nat." Edit, xii., p. 748, n. 19 (1767). 

 3 \ „ ,, „ „ Muller, " Naturs.," v. 1, p. 571, n. 18 (1767). 



„ „ ,, Fab., Syst. Ent.," p. 449, n. 28 (1775). 



Cram., "Pap. Exot." II. t, 140. A.B. (1779). 

 Goeze, " Ent. Beytr.," III. 1, p. 38, n. 19 (1779)- 

 P. Oblongomaculatus, ? . Goeze, same work, I. p. 44, n. 22 (i779>- 



'Papilio Eques Trojanus Helena, Fabr. " Spec. Ins." II. p. 10, n. 39 (1781). 



J ablonsky," Naturs.," Schmett. I. p. 203, n. f. t. 3. f. 2(1783). 

 I „ „ „ ,, Esper, " Ausl. Schmett," p. 43, t. g, f. 2 (1786). 



S ) „ „ „ Fabr., "Mant. Ins." II. p. 5, n. 42 (1787). 



Gmelin, " Syst. Nat.," I. 5, p. 2234, n. 19 (1790). 

 Fabr, "Ent. Syst.," III. 1, p. 19, n. 59 (1793). 

 (Papilio Amphimedon, Cram., " Pap. Exot.," III. t. 194 A (1782). 

 ? 1 „ Hubn., " Verz. bek. Schm.," p. 88, n. 920 (1816). 



3 Troides Helena, " Hubn., Verz. bek. Schm.," p. 88. n. 921 (1816). 

 3 ? Papilio Amphimedon, " Enc. Meth.," ix. p. 26, n. 4 ? (1819) ; also p. 27, n. 6 3 (same date) 



jOrnithoptera Amphimedon, Boisdv., " Voy. Astrol. Lep." p. 35, t. 1. f. 1, 2 (1832). 

 S% \ „ „ Boisdv., "Spec. Gen. I. p. 177, n. 5 (1836). 



3 „ Helena, Doubl. Hew. " Genera Diurnal Lepidoptera," t. 1, f. 2 (1846). 



s n „ Vollenhoven, "Tijdschrift. von. Ent.," III., p. 71, n. 5 (i860). 



s „ „ Aurivill, " Kongl. Sv. Vet. Ak. Handl.," xix. 5, p. 22, n. 18 (1882). 



j j „ ,, Wallace, " Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond." V. p. 23 (i860). 



i ? ,, ,, Oberth, " E't. d'Ent." iv. p. 30, n. 6 (1879). 



<j ? H Ribbe, " Iris," II. p. 207, n. 3 (1890) (Aberration of the ? ), also the same work, III. 



p. 41 (1890), (the Larva and pupa from Ceram). 

 j ? n ,, Rober, " Tijdschr." v. Ent. xxxiv. p. 268 (1891). 



3 J Papilio Helena, Feld., " Verh. z. bei Ges. Wien," p. 291. n. 22 (1864). 

 3 ? „ Butler, " Cat. Diurn. Lep. descr. Fabric," p. 234, n. 3. (1864). 



3 ? Ornithoptera Helena, Fickert, " Zool. Jahrbiichern," pp. 735, 743 (1889). 



j 5 „ ,, Staiidgr. and Schatz, " Exot. Schmett." p. 5. (1888). 



,v. Bouruensis, Wallace. ^ 



i! „ „ \v. Celebensis, „ [ " Trans. Linn. Soc," XXV. pp. 38, 39 (1865). 



l». Papuensis, ,, ' 

 3 ? ,, ,, v. Leda, Staudinger, " Iris," IV. p. 74 (1891). 



9 v. Papuanus, Oberthiir, " Etud. d' Ent.," iv. p. 31, sub. n. 10 (1879) = 

 Melpomona, Rippon, "Icon. Ornith.," p. 46 (1898). 

 v. Jupiter, Oberth., " Et. Entom.," iv. p. 31, t. 1. n. 11., pi. 1 (1879). 

 ,,32 v. Holzi, Pagenstecher, " Jahrb. Nassau, ver. Naturk.," p. 103, n. 3 (1890) = 

 rutilans of Oberthiir ; also same work and author, p. 29 (1894). 

 ? v. P. Pluto, Feld. = 0. Heliacon, Boisdv. 

 ,, „ 3 v. Carolus, Friihstorfer. 



3 j Ornithoptera Heliaeon, ab. rutilans, Oberth., " Et. d'Ent." iv. p. 32, sub. n. 13 (1879). 

 3 ? Troides Helena, propinquns, sub sp. Rothschild, " Nov. Zoological," Vol. II (1895). 

 Papilio Helena, W. F. Kirby, "Syn. Cat. Diurn. Lep." p. 518 (1871). 



Ornithoptera Helena, W. F. Kirby, " Handb. to the Order Lepidoptera," Vol. II. p. 264 (1896). 

 3 ? Pompeoptera Helena, Rippon, " Genera Insectorum " of Wytsman, Art. on the Papilionida?, sec. Troides, p. 14 (1902). 



This species was made by Hubner the type of what, at 

 that early period in the history of the Ornithoptera, he 

 regarded as a single Genus. Indeed until 1816 the few 

 known species of this tribe of Lepidoptera were all 

 included in the continually enlarging Genus Papilio — a 

 very natural conclusion when regarded from the point of 

 view of the neuration only ; for virtually there is not 

 much difference between the veinative system of 

 Ornithoptera and Papilio. 



Up to this period only a very small number of forms 

 had been discovered : these consisted of Pompeus from 

 Java 1719 ; Priamus from Ceram, 1719 ; Hippolytus from 

 Ceram, 1753; Helena also from Ceram, 1764 ; Minos 

 from India; Amphrysus from Java, 1782; the Indian 

 analogue of Pompeus (Cerberus) 1800 ; and Poseidon 

 from the Moluccas, 1815, exactly 8 species. Of these only 

 one sex of at least 5 forms was known, so that the 

 materials which might justify a separation from the 



