PAPILIO. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
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Abdomen laterally and beneath grey-yellow and black, less rough, above in the middle brown in the <$. The 
white vein-streaks of the $ broader than in the preceding subspecies, the anterior one of the third pair counted 
from behind near to the cell or reaching it, apex of the cell white. Mt. Gede, Preanger, Java, 4—5500 ft. 
P. criton. Collar and breast red; abdomen beneath and laterally much more extended yellow than in 
plato and the forms of haliphron. <L : forewing above and beneath without vein-stripes or there are white vein- 
stripes present beneath; the golden area of the hindwing consists of a large cell-spot and 6 large discal spots, 
the last discal spot the longest, very much longer than the black marginal band is broad, the 1. spot longer than 
broad, all or at least the posterior ones distally emarginate, the cell-spot obliquely truncate, occupying the half 
of the cell or somewhat more, longer anteriorly than posteriorly. $ variable; the white streaks at the 2. median 
of the forewing, if present at all, far removed from the cell; the golden area of the hindwing almost straightly 
truncate, the spot placed behind the 2. median not prolonged basad beyond the point of origin of this vein, often 
absent; the black discal spots, especially the central ones, rounded, above rarely completely merged together, 
beneath always smaller; the black marginal band, which is deeply incised at the veins, narrower than the yellow 
central spots are long, measured from the cell to the black discal spots. Larva similar to that of haliphron, some¬ 
what more brightly coloured. Pupa greenish. Northern Moluccas and Obi, rather common; rare on Celebes. — 
criton Fldr. (11 a, b), from Batjan, Ternate, Halmahera and Morty, rarely has in the $ white vein-streaks 
on the under surface of the forewing. The $ occurs in 3 principal forms: §-f. androgyna form. nov. has neither 
above nor beneath white vein-stripes or the stripes are only faintly indicated on the upperside and more strongly 
beneath; in $-f. oberthueri Rothsch. the apex of the cell and the vein-stripes are almost pure white above and 
beneath, the yellow area of the hindwing is golden as in the preceding $-form; $-f. felderi Rothsch. has faint 
vein-streaks above and the central area of the hindwing is not golden but pale cream-colour. — critonides Fruhst., 
from Obi, is not constantly different from criton. £: forewing beneath often with white vein-stripes (in 4 of our 
7 <$&), the cell-spot of the hindwing mostly less obliquely truncate than in criton. In the $ the spot placed before 
the 1. radial of the hindwing always small, no yellow or cream-coloured discal spot before the subcostal; the 
black discal spots completely merged together, so that above only quite small yellow submarginal spots are present. 
The 3 known principal forms of the $ are: $-f. melas form, nov., forewing without distinct vein-stripes, or 
these at least above weakly developed, central area of the hindwing above yellow; in $-f. cinna Fruhst. ‘b of 
the cell of the forewing and the broad, proximally united vein-stripes are almost pure white and the central area 
of the hindwing is golden above; $-f. clara form. nov. has even more white than cinna and the central area of 
the hindwing is cream-coloured above. —- celebensis Wall. The type (a from „Macassar“) of this form is in 
the collection of H. Grose-Smith. Dr. L. Martin received a second specimen from his collectors from Putannani, 
South Celebes, which he has handed over to the Tring Museum. These two specimens — the only ones which 
I have seen — are very similar to the criton-g from the northern Moluccas. The abdomen, however, is black, 
with narrowly yellow margins to the segments beneath; the claspers almost entirely grey-yellow. Forewing 
beneath with distinct whitish grey stripes, which extend to the cell; the yellow area of the hindwing distally 
more deeply scalloped than in the other criton-lorms. The $ from the Minahassa in coll. Staudingek mentioned 
in Novitates Zoologicae 1896, p. 64, probably belongs to P. helena hephaestus. 
P. riedeli Kirsch (10 a). This apparently very constant species is one of the rarer forms. Body similar 
to that of criton, but the abdomen more sparsely yellow, especially at the sides; both wings more elongated 
than in the allied species. forewing beneath with distinct but thin white vein-stripes, the pairs placed at 
the two median veins removed from the cell; the gold area of the hindwing much as in criton, but proximally 
cut off straight, the cell-spot much smaller, the posterior discal spots much longer and almost all the spots more 
deeply emarginate, the black hindmargin at the apex of the golden area and the black distal margin before the 
subcostal much narrower than in criton. $: forewing at the apex of the cell and distally to it white, this area 
produced into stripes at the veins, at the 1. median a white double stripe, which is remote from the cell; hind- 
wing with dot-like cell-spot or the cell entirely black, 4 golden discal spots and behind this area a whitish grey 
spot; the black discal spots not completely merged together, but the yellow spots separated by them strongly 
scaled with black on the upper surface. — Sjerra, Timor Laut Islands, perhaps also on the other islands of 
this group. 
P. haliphron. Abdomen black, with but little yellow scaling laterally and beneath, or entirely without 
yellow, in the $ brown above. The golden area of the hindwing in the <$ with oblique edge basally, the black 
basal and hindmarginal area extending at least to the lower median, sometimes the whole cell black; the gold 
patches not distinctly emarginate distally, the middle ones truncate or rounded off, the distal margin very broadly 
black. The gold area of the $ mostly cut off straight in the cell, the black discal spots long, especially the poste¬ 
rior ones, mostly all joined to the marginal band, often so completely merged together with the latter that there 
criton. 
androgyna. 
oberthueri. 
felderi. 
critonides. 
melas. 
cinna. 
clara. 
celebensis. 
riedeli. 
