﻿POMPEOPTERA HIPPOLYTUS. 



Papilio Hippolytus, Cram. (P. Hyfolytus et hippolytus) Pap. Ex. I. t, 10 A.B. t. n A.B. (1775). 

 P. Kemus, Fabr. Gens. Ins. p. 250 (1777); Cram. Pep. Ex. It, t 135 A. t. 136 A. (1779); IV. t. 3 36 A.B. (1782); Godt. Enc. Meth. IX. p. 26. n. 3. (1819). 

 P. Remus, Herbst, Pap. t. 3. i. 1. ; Seba, 4, Mas. 4. tab. 46 f. II, 12; 19, 20. 

 Ornithoptera Remus, Boisd.. Sp. Gen. I. p. 176. n. 3. (1S36). 

 S P. Panthous <? Clerck, Icones, t. 18. (1764). 

 P. Antenor, Jacquin (nec dru.) ; Miscell. Austr. II. t. 23. f. 4. (1785). 

 Orn. Remus, Wall, Trans. Linn. Soc. XXV. p. 38. (1866). 

 Orn. Panthous, Doubleday; G. R. Gray, Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus (1852). 

 0, Hippolytus, Fickert, Ueber die Zeichnungsverhaltnisse der Gattung Ornithoptera, p. 741. 

 Orn. Hippolytus $ , Staudinger and Schatz, Exotische Schmetterlinge, PI. ii. (1888). 

 Orn. Hippolytus, Schatz, die Fam. und Gattungen, text, p. 42. (1892). 



Boisduval's descriptions of this species, 6* and ? , are 

 as follow : — 



" Taille et port de priamus. Ailes superieures noires a 

 reflet verddtre, offrant de part et d' autre, de chaque cote des 

 nervures secondaires, des raies d'un grisdtre. Les inferieures 

 d'un noir grisdtre en dessus, d'un blanc luisant en dessous, 

 ayant de part et d 'autre, tine bordure noire, sinuee devisee par 

 sept taches irregulures d'un j dune d'or, dominant beaucoup de 

 grandeur en approchant du bord abdominal. Thorax, 

 antennes et poitrine noires et sans taches. Abdomen d'un 

 jaune pale en dessous, d'un jaune vif en dessus, avec des taches 

 noires plus on moins grandes. 



ha 2 differ e du $ en ce que ses ailes infer ieures ont le 

 bord abdominal largement blanc de part et d' autre, avec les 

 taches jaunes, cuneiformes, beaucoup plus grandes, marquees 

 chacune d'une tache ovale noire, excepte la plus external., 

 (Sp. Gen. I. p. 176). 



$ . Form and general appearance of priamus. Upper 

 wings black, with greenish reflections, shewn in each side 

 of the secondary nervules. The rays (enclosing the 

 nervules) whitish grey. Lower wings very dark grey 

 above, and glittering (pearly) white beneath, having on 

 each side a black border, sinuous, divided by seven golden 

 yellow spots, diminishing greatly in size as they approach 

 the abdominal edge. Thorax, antennae and breast black, 

 and without spots. Abdomen of a pale yellow beneath, 

 and bright yellow above, with the black spots more or less 

 large. 



5. differs from the <? in that the hind wings_ to the 

 abdominal edge are largely white on each side, with the 

 yellow spots wedge-shaped, much larger, each marked 

 with an oval black spot, except the outermost, i.e., the two 

 nearest the anterior margin. 



To this description the following additions should be 

 made: in the 2 superior wings, the grey-white rays 

 extend nearly half-way within the discoidal cell, enclosing 

 the peculiar club-shaped black markings, and the black 

 pseudoneura ; faint hind-marginal lines close to the edge, 

 divided by the nervures. The same on the under surface, 

 except when the club-shaped markings coalesce, as they 

 do in some examples ; inferior wings, a black spot be- 

 tween the third median and sub-median nervures, very 

 pale on upperside, strongly impressed on the under-side, 

 below this is a small irregular-shaped spot of brownish- 

 black on upperside — the under-side being quite black. 

 In the yellow between the first and second sub-costal 

 nervules is also an elongated black spot, appearing 

 shorter and browner on the under-side. The scalloped 

 edges of wings yellowish-white, except the one nearest the 



apex ; on the under-side the yellowish-grey-white extends 

 within the discoidal cell, subdued by a number of black 

 atoms ; and the black of upper-side without the ceh is 

 faintly indicated by grey cloudings. Abdomen greenish 

 grey -white above, yellow beneath, with small lateral black 

 dots, and sub-dorsal black dots with a black patch ex- 

 tending from each segment except the anal, where it is 

 only slight. 



Wallace (Trans. Lin. Soc.) remarks "the 2 2 from 

 the Sulla Islands differ" (from Cramer's fig.) "only in 

 having more yellow towards the anal angle of the lower 

 wings." To this it may be added that the amount of 

 yellow differs greatly ; in some specimens there is much 

 yellow ; others (like one in my own collection) are almost 

 or quite without this tint in the grey. Wallace also calls 

 attention to the fact that "These specimens figured by 

 Cramer under the name Hypolitus seem to be a remark- 

 able variety in which the ? has much the character of 

 the $ ." 



In a $ from Amboyna, in the coll. of Mr. O. Janson, 

 the hind wings have a much richer and deeper grey-black. 

 The same may be said of the black of his 2 . 



In a 2 from Amboyna in the coll. of Dr. F. A. Walker, 

 under the name of Panthous, the Primaries are almost 

 entirely silky black — the grey rays being scarcely visible, 

 and of a slightly reddish tint. In a 2 under the same 

 name the grey of the secondaries is not suffused with 

 yellow, but there is no other important difference. A $ 

 in the same coll. has a silky semi-diaphanous grey around 

 the grey white rays of the Primaries similar to that of the 

 Secondaries. Another $ has a faint grey white spot 

 dividing the black on the 4th segment of the abdomen. 

 This is not generally the case with other specimens. 



In a 2 in the coll. of Mr. W. Dannatt the black of 

 superior wings has a slight olive-green gloss ; and the 

 black spots and bands of inferior wings are an olive-black. 



$ . Viewed obliquely the grey-black of the inferior 

 wings has a leaden metallic gloss ; and in some speci- 

 mens a delicate dead violet gloss over all the rest of the 

 wings except the yellow. Viewed opposite the light this 

 changes to a warm olive-green gloss on black of upper 

 wings, and nervules of lower. The under surface of 

 superiors opposite the light has a slight greenish gloss, 

 while on the under-side of inferiors the white is pearly, 

 ranging from lustrous white to bluish grey. 



2 . A specimen in Brit. Mus. : hing wind from inner 

 margin to second median nervule and half way beyond, 

 very grey ; underside bluish-grey. 



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