October, 1927 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
49 
Both this species and the preceding “Blue Triangle’’ 
butterfly are beautiful fairy creatures in our gardens. 
Ever restless they flit up in rapid evolutions over the tops 
of the trees then down again through every sunny glade, 
stopping often at some flowering plant to obtain, with 
quivering wings, a sip of nectar. Or they dart oft' in 
chase of one another, performing all sorts of acrobatic 
feats. Hot gleamy days with occasional showers are their 
especial delight. 
Papilio macleayanus, Leach. 
The butterfly known under this name is confined to 
Eastern Australia and Tasmania. It is a spatulate tailed 
species having base of wings green, outwardly shaded with 
grey more or less tinged with green, the apical area 
being black with two large green spots along costa and 
a comma-like spot beneath these, also a sub-marginal row 
of small green spots. The lower wings are basallv grey- 
gieen, and outwardly blackish, the incisions white bor- 
dered. Beneath the wings are brighter green edged sil- 
very, the two large green costal spots as on upper surface, 
but the remainder of the under being soft shades of brown 
edged silvery-grey— a chaste arrangement of colour. 
It is not by any means a common butterfly around 
Brisbane, as its native food plant has been so much de- 
stroyed by the march of settlement, and it has not taken 
so kindly to the introduced Laurinae and Rutaceae, like 
P. sarpedon. We have, however, often taken it at 
Bulimba about the camphor laurels. 
The insect is quite common on the Blackall and Mac- 
pherson Ranges, also Main Range. On the summit of 
Wilson’s Peak* in December, 1903, it, in company with 
I ap. Sarpedon, Lycaon, and other butterflies, was surpris- 
ingly plentiful. At the Blackall Range the blossoms of 
the orange and other sweet-scented flowers are very 
attractive to it. It has not, so far as T am aware, been 
taken m larval state on the orange or lemon. Some years 
Eurypylus, a noted Trojan chief in the war between 
Greece and Troy, slain by Pyrrhus, son of Achilles. 
in the Tro?an a wa°r n ° f “ d La ° th ° e ’ killed by Afihilles 
*4 iOOft; At angle of Main and Macphers 
head ot Teviot Brook, Condamine River (Qld ) 
waters ot Clarence River, in N.S.W. 
n Ranges, 
and head 
Macleayanus, after Maeleay, a noted naturalist. 
