﻿POMPEOPTERA MINOS. 



Papilio Eques Trojanus Minos, Cramer, " Pap. Exot." vol. iii., 4, t, 195, f. a. (1779.) ? . 

 Papilio Eques Trojanus Astenous, Fabricius, " Spec. Ins." vol. ii., p. 10, n. 38. (1781.) 



» „ , t » Jablonsky and Herbst, " Naturs. Schmetteriinge," vol. i., p. 206, n. 7, t. 4, f. 2. (1782.) 



» h » « Gmelin, " Syst. Nat.'' vol. i., 5, p. 2234, n. 297. (1790.) $ . 



„ „ „ Minos, Esper, " Ausl. Schmett." p. 127, n. 56, t. 32, f, 1. (1792.) 



V » » Astenous, Fabricius, " Ent. Syst." vol. iii., I., p. 19, n. 52. (1793 ) ?. 



Papilio Amphrysius, Godart, Encycl. Meth., vol. ix., p. 27, n. 7. (1819.) ? . 



Ornithoptera Heliacon, Boisduval, " Species General Lepidopteres," vol. i., p. 178, n. 7. (1836.) J . 

 Papilio Pompeus, var. e Minos, W. F. Kirby, " Syn. Cat. Diurn. Lep." p. 518. (1872.) 

 „ Minos, Oberthiir, " Etudes d'Ent." iv., p. 32, n. 14. (1879.) 3 ? . 



„ Pompeus, var. Minos, Wood Mason, "Journal Asiatic Society Bengal," p. 86. (1881.) 3 ? . 



„ Minos, Staudinger and Schatz, " Exotische Schmett. "vol. i., p. 5. (1884.) <??. 



„ „ Aitken, " Journal Bombay Nat, Hist. Soc, p. 35, n. 73. (1887.) 3 s , 



Papilio (0.) Minos, Hampson, "Journal As. Soc. Bengal," p. 363, n. 193. (1888.) <? ? . 



„ Davidson and Aitken, Ibid, p. 361, n. 64. (1890.) (Life History). 



„ Pompeus, var. Minos. Fickert, " Ueber die Zeichnungsv. Gatt. Ornith." p. 730. (1890.) 



Papilio (0.) Minos, Fergusson, "Journal Bombay Nat. Hist. Society," p. 445, n. 167. (1891.) 

 Troides Minos, Rothschild, " Novit. Zoologicae," p. 203, n. 11. (1895.) 3 ? 



Ornithoptera Minos, F. Moore, " Lepidoptera Indica," vol. v., p. 142, pi, 419, figs. 1 larve and pups, 1a, 3, ib, ? . (igoi-1903.) 



$ . Anterior wings velvety or silky black, with a 

 greenish-olive sheen, when viewed obliquely opposite the 

 light ; the adnervular light rays in some positions almost 

 obsolete, — in others just visible, — if held over any light 

 object, such as a sheet of white paper, they appear some- 

 what prominent, and of a dull reddish black, the membrane 

 at such positions being semi-diaphanous, silky, and densely 

 scaled with infinitely minute dark atoms ; half-way from 

 the base of the wing the median nervure and a small 

 portion of the 3rd nervule is bordered with pale yellow, 

 subdued by black atoms, as is also the upper part of the 

 median nervure. All the veins except the costal and sub- 

 costal, and the submedian are well shown and stout ; the 

 pseudoneura, examined obliquely, are sufficiently visible ; 

 the fringe lunules of the outer margin are very thin, and 

 are white. Underside of anterior wing as above, except 

 that the adnervular rays are very prominent and greenish 

 white, yellowish towards the bases of the median vein, and 

 that the outline of the discoidal cell within is prominently 

 bordered with the same light colour nearly to the base of 

 the median, and i-3rd from the distal end to the 1st sub- 

 costal nervule ; the pseudoneura are like true veins, and 

 slightly and gracefully bordered also with the light marks ; 

 a few grey atoms between the 2nd and 3rd submedian 

 branch, and two submedian grey rays are also present. 



Posterior wings rich silky golden yellow, filling the whole 

 cell, and occupying nearly the whole of the disc ; the sub- 

 median and abdominal-marginal areas are velvety black ; 

 the precostal basal area reddish black ; the black hind- 

 marginal band or border is very broad, deeply lunate, or 

 rather, dentate towards the disc : the apices of the two 

 lower dentations with a small patch of black scaling ; a 

 mass of very delicate black hairs flow from the of the cell 

 on to the yellow, half-way of its length, and over the 

 median and submedian areas ; the outer marginal white 

 fringe lunations are very thin ; the outline of the posterior 

 margin is delicately lunate. Undersurface as above, 

 except that a small black discal spot is within the 2nd 

 and 1st median nervules : all the marginal dentations are 

 bordered with greenish yellow-grey stripes : a grey line 

 borders the 3rd median branch : an orbicular black spot 

 is found on the same branch, just above its corresponding 

 dentation : a congeries of grey atoms is on the submedian 



black : and the abdominal fold underside is fawn-brown, 

 to which is attached a dense fringe of black hairs. The 

 yellow on both surfaces of the wings is suffused slightly 

 with a pale green ; the veins stout and very black. 



Length of anterior wing costa, 74 mms. ; length of outer 

 margin 54 mms. ; length of inner margin 37 mms. ; greatest 

 width of wing about 46 mms. ; greatest length of posterior 

 wing 47, and width 37 mms. 



Thorax and head velvety black ; antennae black ; eyes 

 nitid brown ; underside of thorax brown-black, with the 

 usual lateral red patches ; legs nitid dark brown ; thorax 

 yellow, with a central longitudinal stripe of fawn yellow ; 

 anal valves fawn-grey ; abdomen dorsally yellow, with two 

 lateral rows of black dots or spots, the uppermost only 

 partially visible. 



Length of abdomen or antennae, J32 mms. ; of thorax 

 with head, 22 mms. 



Length 



of 

 Legs : 



1st pair 

 2nd ,, 

 3rd „ 



Femur, 11 ; Tibia, 7 ; 

 ,, 12 ; ,, 10 ; 

 „ 13; >. 11; 



Tarsi, 11 mms. 



„ 13 M 



Habitat : Shivaroy Hills. 



2 . Anterior wings dark brown — slightly lighter towards 

 the outer margin ; adnervular light rays all very prominent, 

 and gracefully formed, each one terminating very near the 

 outer margin, and ochraceous grey in tint, slightly reduced 

 and shaded outwardly by atomic scaling ; the angle 

 between the 2nd and 3rd subcostal nervules is also of the 

 same tint ; the submedian vein runs through a bordering 

 of the same tint from about half-way from the base to near 

 the outer margin, the lower division of the light-tinted 

 mark being extended to the inner-marginal outline by a 

 coalescent patch of light atoms ; the inner outlines of the 

 discoidal cell from the distal end to within a little of the 

 base is of the same light tint, so reduced towards the base 

 by red-brown scaling as to be lost in the dark brown at 

 very near the base of the cell ; the costa is very black to 

 about half-way from the base ; the veins are all very stout 

 and dark, and the pseudoneura can be sufficiently traced 

 at their terminals : the submedian fold is also fairly 

 shown. 



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