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PAPILIO. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
by Fruhstorfer are still less tenable, yet it is a fact that at least in many of lamponius the white band 
of the hindwing above encroaches* further on the cell than in cilix. According to Ribbe with almost 
white abdomen also occur. New Pomerania (= New Britain). 
P. albinus. Similar to P. fuscus. The ground-colour in the almost pure black; the white area 
of the hindwing above very broad, always entering the cell, the 2. to the 4. spot distally sharply excised and 
produced at the veins into a pointed tooth, distally to the white area no grey-blue discal spots; beneath 
the white patches very sharply defined, especially distally. $ much paler than the the white area of the 
hindwing as in the <$, but above mostly somewhat narrower, sometimes not reaching the cell; the hind¬ 
wing beneath with a white discal band consisting of 6 or 7 patches and a complete row of dirty yellow sub- 
albinus. marginal spots. Dutch and British New Guinea, at low elevations in the hills. — albinus Wall. (= sekarensis 
leucophanes. Horn.). Forewing without white subapical band. Dutch New Guinea. In ab. leucophanes Gr.-Sm. the 
lesches. hindwing has only 2 white discal patches beneath. — lesches Godm. & Salv. (25 c). Forewing with white 
subapical band. British New Guinea. 
schmeltzi. P. schmeltzi Herr.-Sch. (27 c). forewing black, commonly anteriorly with traces of a thin, curved 
white discal band, which is always present beneath. Hindwing with bluish grey discal band, which does 
not reach the abdominal margin and is very strongly dentate distally; beneath this band is represented 
by a fairly complete row of thin lunules, distally to which large blue lunules are placed, the submarginal 
spots, which are wanting above, are beneath ochre-yellow and all very well developed, the veins striped with 
grey at the base of the hindwing, especially the costal (as in godeffroyi). $ paler than forewing also 
above always with discal band. The freshly laid egg straw-yellow, later orange, before hatching grey. The 
young larva similar to bird-droppings, with branched spines on all the segments; when full-grown very 
variable, usually green, with brown thoracic band, which beneath runs laterally to the prothorax, on the 
abdomen 2 shortened oblique bands, on the 3 thoracic segments and the penultimate abdominal segment 
low tubercles; the scent-fork vivid red. Pupa always fastened to a twig, blue-green, beneath in the middle 
strongly convex, dorsally moderately incurved, with silver stripes on the wing-cases and the abdomen, the 
middle of the abdomen dorsally vivid golden green; on Aralia. The butterfly in the open forest where 
there is underwood; its flight irregular, j'erky. — Fiji Islands; the only Papilio occurring there. 
godeffroyi. P. godeffroyi Setup. (27 c). foreAving rather pointed, with oblique band of white spots distally 
to the cell, the band beneath continued to the submedian by an interrupted or complete row of narrow 
transverse spots. Hindwing above with bluish grey discal band, which is pointed posteriorly and does not 
enter the cell; distally to the band indistinctly defined blue spots; fringe-spots of both wings large. Be¬ 
neath the band of the forewing only indicated by a faint line, distally to this a complete row of blue lunules, 
the submarginal spots yelloAvish grey, not sharply defined, the anal spot yelloAv-red. The $ paler, the fore- 
\\dng with a macular band, continued also above to the hindmargin; hindwing aboA r e with several red sub¬ 
marginal spots, beneath, the discal band very narrow, white, the submarginal spots all distinct, yellow-red. 
The young larva black, with Avhite V on the back, and black spines. The full-grown larva variable, usually 
green and marked similarly to the larva of schmeltzi, on the 3. to 5. segments 2 short orange-coloured spines 
at each side, on the 8. to 12. segments an orange-coloured tubercle at each side; on Aralia. Pupa golden 
green, the back of the abdomen uniformly convex; always fastened on the midrib of a leaf. The lar¬ 
vae of this species and schmeltzi feed by day. — Samoa. 
P. ilioneus. Palpi laterally entirely white; abdomen beneath at the sides and in the middle with alto¬ 
gether 5 yellowish white, rather thick lines. $: forewing above distally to the cell with an oblique band 
of white spots and before the distal margin a row of white submarginal dots, of which usually the 1. (placed 
before the 4. subcostal) is distinct; hindwing with white discal area from the costal margin to the 1. median 
or somewhat beyond it, the 3. patch always the largest, the last small, placed close to the cell, the apex of 
the cell always white; the fringe-spots white, large. Under surface: forewing as above, but the oblique 
band broader and all the submarginal spots except the last Avell developed, before the submedian a short 
Avhite discal linear transverse spot; the discal band of the hindwing continued to the anal margin, a com¬ 
plete roAv of submarginal spots, the first and last large, rounded and yellow-red with yelloAAush white margin, 
the others yellowish white with red dots. The $ paler brown, the markings of the foreAving yellowish, 
larger than in the (J, before the hindmargin at ‘‘‘1 3 a triangular patch. On New Caledonia and the neigh- 
ilioneus. bouring Loyalty Islands, as well as on Norfolk Island. — ilioneus Don. (= amphiaraus Fldr.). the sub¬ 
apical band of the forewing above broad, yelloAvish; the submarginal spots of the hindwing beneath large, 
the 2. and 3. at least as large as the black spots which are placed betAveen them and the yelloAvish white 
amynthor. discal area. Norfolk Island. — amynthor Bdv. (= abstrusus Btlr.) (27 c). The subapical band of the fore¬ 
wing and the posterior patches of the yellowish Avhite area of the hindwing less narrow than in the preced¬ 
ing form, the band of the forewing narroAver and the submarginal spots on the under surface of both Avings 
smaller. New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands; apparently common. 
P. Canopus. Both wings in <$ and $ Avith a Avhite or yellowish band, Avhich beneath is at least as 
broad as above. The band of the forewing in some tailless forms suppressed except for the 1—3 subapical 
