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PAPILIO. By Dr. IC. Jordan. 
chimarea. P. chimaera Rothsch. (4 b). Most nearly allied to P. tithonus. The head in both sexes small. Fore- 
wing of the similarly marked to that of tithonus; the distribution of colours on the hindwing different, as 
the figures show; abdomen yellow, beneath with rather rough hairs, above with black spots laterally. The $ 
remarkable before all other Papilios in that the rough-haired abdomen is ringed with black; the white spots 
of the forewing are very variable in size and number. — This easily recognised species was discovered by A. 
S. Meek at the southern slopes of the Owen Stanley Range in British New Guinea, at the upper Aroa River. 
The butterfly was very rare there, but Meek captured a considerable number, partly with the help of natives. 
The greater number of the specimens were taken on a single flowering tree on which the butterfly settled one 
at a time. Meek afterwards caught some more specimens at the north-east side of the range, at the upper 
course of the Mambare River. 
tithonus. P. tithonus. Stalk of the subcostal of the forewing short, the 3. subcostal branching off proximally 
to the apex of the cell. Abdomen of the $ with black lateral spots, forewing without brand, with 3 gold-green 
longitudinal stripes, of which the 1. and 2. are distally widened; hindwing elongated, the anterior half and 
2 spots at the anal angle silky golden, distally and posteriorly golden green, the abdominal margin broadly 
black and the distal margin narrowly black, 3 black discal spots; underside of the forewing for the most part 
golden green, with a large black area at the apex of the cell; the hairs placed on the abdominal fold very 
long. $ similar to poseidon-^, but the hindwing with the abdominal margin longer, the costal and distal 
margins evenly rounded together, the lower median branching off much more distally from the cell, the black 
marginal band broad and not undulate, the black discal spots round. Earlier stages not known. 2 subspecies. 
waigeuensis .— waigeuensis Rothsch. $: the part of the median band placed in the cell of the forewing narrow; cell of the 
hindwing for the most part golden. $: spots of the forewing large, cell-spot of the hindwing shorter than 
tithonus. broad. Waigeu. — tithonus Deh. the median band of the forewing broader in the cell than in the prece¬ 
ding form; the 2. and 3. black discal spot of the hindwing larger; less than the half of the cell of the hind¬ 
wing golden. spots of the forewing much reduced, on the other hand the white area of the hindwing en¬ 
larged, the cell-spot of the hindwing longer than broad. Onin Peninsula, Dutch South-West New Guinea. 
Doherty found a few specimens in the hills at Kapaur in December and January. 
P. goliath. Forewing broader than in P. priamus, the lower angle less rounded, especially in the 
the 3. subcostal near the end of the cell; the stalk of the 4. and 5. subcostals longer than in priamus. Forewing 
of the without brand, velvety black; a broad costal stripe and also a large triangular area, which extends 
from the hindmargin costad but does not enter the cell, are green; hindwing rounded, gold-yellow, the veins 
and 3 black-centred submarginal spots green, the abdominal area and the distal margin black. Beneath the 
forewing is gold-green, the veins and margins as well as a row of discal spots black; hindwing gold-yellow, 
the abdominal area from the cell to the scent-organ and the distal margin with the exception of the extreme 
edge, green. The $ resembles in pattern certain priamus -$$; the eye as in the J is conspicuously margined 
with white posteriorly; the forewing either only with traces of patches, or there are a large divided cell- 
patch, a row of submarginal spots and several discal spots present, the hindwing has a broad yellowish white 
discal area, in which is placed a row of rounded white discal spots; abdomen above grey-yellow, laterally and 
beneath pure yellow, the 1. segment as well as the base of the others laterally and beneath black. This insect, 
which is still very rare in collections, is distributed over the whole of New Guinea, but is apparently local. 
It has been bred more than once, but nothing appears to have been published as yet about the larva and pupa. 
goliath. —- goliath Oherth. (7 a) doubtless came from Waigeu; the specimen from which the species was described 
was found in a collection which was left without exact data as to locality. As the same collection contained 
a $ of P. tithonus which belongs to the Waigeu, not the mainland form, we may probably take it that the 
collection was made on Waigeu. In the $ of goliath the cell of the forewing has a trilobate spot and the discal 
area of the hindwing above is suffused with blackish. We place here provisionally a £ which comes either 
from Waigeu or the coast-districts of Geelvink Bay; it is smaller than the GG known to us from German 
and British New Guinea; the gold-yellow spot placed behind the 2. median of the hindwing is larger, the costal 
margin of the forewing beneath is more broadly black and the black patch placed in the subcostal fork is 
atlas, larger. — atlas Rothsch., from Kapaur, Dutch South-West New Guinea. Only 2 $9 known, which were 
found by W. Doherty in January and February, 1899. Cell-patch of the forewing broken up into spots; behind 
the 2. median a discal spot, on the underside before the 2. median 2 discal spots, besides these a submarginal 
spot; the discal area of the hindwing above grey-white, thickly shaded with black, beneath distally yellow 
supremus. and proximally white. — supremus Rob. (= schoenbergi Rob., elisabethae-reginae Horv. & Mocs., goliath 
Horv. & Mocs.) (7 a). The best known form. The ^ varies somewhat in the extent of the green areas of the 
forewing and the size of the submarginal spots of the hindwing. The $ has on the forewing above and beneath 
only 2 spots between the 1. and 2. medians; the discal area of the hindwing above is mostly less shaded with 
black than in the preceding forms and more uniform yellow, especially* beneath. German New Guinea. — 
titan, titan Grose-Smith is the subspecies from British New Guinea. The J differs from supremus by the somewhat 
narrower black distal margin of the hindwing; on the under surface of the forewing the black discal spot placed 
