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PAPILIO. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
amaura. 
bouruensis. 
capnodia. 
argidia. 
bandensis. 
thestius. 
bernhardus. 
the black discal spots beneath more or less margined with grey; two forms: $-f. amaura form, nov., apex of the 
cell of the forewing above only faintly edged with dark grey; §-f. oblongomaculatus Goeze, the apex of the cell 
broadly grey-white. Sometimes in the small, irregular black spots are sprinkled over the gold area. Ribbe 
found the butterfly in Ceram, ,,everywhere in the forest and on the coast where there are shrubby woods.“ Larva 
of oblongomaculatus similar to that of haliphron, grey-brown, with blackish lines on the back, two oblique bands 
laterally; on Aristolochia momandul. Pupa yellow-green, much shorter than that of P. priamus, the wing- 
cases project more strongly, the 2. and 3. pair of protuberances on the abdomen are much larger, and the 4. 
pair absent, also the last segments are more flattened above and laterally. Egg (according to Kubai.y) small, 
green, with thick shell. — bouruensis Wall. (10 b). <$: the cell-spot and the subcostal spot of the hindwing mostly 
very much reduced, the latter usually placed at a distance from the point of origin of the subcostal, the cell- 
spot sometimes not larger than in the $ of the preceding subspecies, also the gold streak placed below the cell 
mostly small, above sometimes quite wanting. central area of the hindwing above and beneath deeper yel¬ 
low than in the previous subspecies; in the $-f. capnodia form. nov. the apex of the cell of the forewing on the upper- 
side is only slightly dark grey at the apex and the vein-stripes are effaced or indistinct; beneath, as in the prece¬ 
ding subspecies, these stripes are grey-white and in one of our specimens very broad; in $-f. argidia form. nov. 
the apex of the cell of the forewing and the vein-stripes are grey-white also above, but the stripes placed at the 
2. median and the submedian are short or diffuse. Buru, apparently common. — bandensis Rothsch. Smaller than 
oblongomaculatus, abdomen above deeper black-brown; hindwing somewhat more rounded, the cell-spot large, 
sinuate basally and therefore less obliquely truncate than in oblongomaculatus, the upper tooth of the 3. gold 
spot little if at all more produced than the lower one, on the contrary the teeth of the 5. and 6. spots placed at 
the 1. median vein long; the white fringe-spots are only just indicated. cell of the forewing above with rather 
sharp grey-white M-mark in the apex; the vein-stripes sharp and grey-white, but the subcostal spots beyond 
the fork of the 4. and 5. vein strongly shaded with black, the other stripes also less light distally and not extending 
so near the margin as in light-striped oblongomaculatus; the stripes of the 2. median and the submedian much 
darkened. Also beneath the apex of the cell is sharply surrounded with grey-white; central area of the hindwing 
above deeper yellow than in oblongomaculatus, but beneath quite as pale as in that subspecies; before the 1. radial 
always a discal spot, which often reaches to the subcostal; the spot placed below the cell large, the fringe-spots 
above and beneath very narrow. Only this one, comparatively constant $-form known. Great Banda, 
collected by H. Kuhn in November and December 1898. — - thestius Stgr. (= leda Stgr. nec Wall., 
celebensis Rothsch. [partim]). The smallest local form of this species. The G very variable, forewing above 
at least with indications of vein-stripes, sometimes strongly striped with white, beneath always striped as 
far as the cell, and the latter at the median often margined with white down to the base. Veins of the 
hindwing mostly very strongly black, the first discal spot and the cell-spot either very large: ^-ab. bernhardus 
Fruhst., or both more or less reduced: G-aK thestius Stgr. In the $ on the upper surface of the forewing the 
edging of the apex of the cell and the vein-stripes distinct or indistinct, beneath very light and broad, the stripe 
placed before the 2. median reaching the cell, also the submedian stripes longer than in the forms from the Moluc¬ 
cas ; central area of the hindwing yellow, the cell-spot occupies about half or 2 /s of the cell; before the 1. radial 
a discal gold spot, the black discal spots large, confluent, the yellow spots between them very small, above 
often entirely absent; the marginal spots large, especially beneath. Saleyer. 
In the following forms of P. Helena the hindwing has a narrower black distal margin than in any 
neoris. of the preceding subspecies. — neoris Rothsch. Abdomen above much paler than in Hephaestus, yellowish 
brown, laterally and beneath grey, not yellow, only yellow towards the base in the <$, the dorsal median spot 
of the $ scarcely lighter than the rest of the upperside, the black ventral spots of the $ small. G: forewing 
with extremely slight traces of vein-stripes; beneath the distal margin somewhat more incurved than even in 
Hephaestus; hindwing as in that form, the marginal band as broad as in broad-margined Hephaestus. $: fore¬ 
wing at all the veins, even the submedian, with broad grey-white stripes, which are even broader beneath 
than above, the stripes placed at the 2. median remote from the cell, the black basal area of the forewing 
rather sharply defined, the apical third of the cell grey-white, above with 2 black stripes shaded with white, 
beneath almost pure white; hindwing above as in Hephaestus, somewhat less deeply scalloped, the white mar¬ 
ginal spots larger, the black marginal band broader, the black abdominal margin rather strongly scaled with 
grey, especially at the anal angle; the black discal spots isolated as in many Hephaestus, the 1. submarginal 
spot grey; no discal gold spot before the subcostal; the cell-spot cut off almost straight; beneath the central 
area yellowish grey, only in the middle more distinctly yellow. A pair from Binongka, Toekan Bessi Islands, 
mopa. south-east of Celebes, taken by H. Kuhn in December 1901. — mopa Rothsch. A transition form between 
neoris and hephaestus, from Buton, south-east of Celebes, only 1 $ known, captured by H. Kuhn in December 
1901. The vein-stripes and cell-pattern of the forewing as in strongly striped hephaestus -$$, but the black 
margin of the hindwing broader, the yellow area on the under surface anteriorly, posteriorly and proximally 
neoris. as pale as in neoris, but a larger part of the area distinctly golden. Abdomen somewhat more distinctly yellow 
hephaestus. than in neoris, the black ventral spots small. — hephaestus Fldr. (= leda Wall.) (13 a, b). A rather common 
