Publ. 24. VI. 1909. 
PAPILIO. By Dr. II. Jordan. 
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P. aegeus. Without tail. Palpi laterally white. forewing as a rule with white macular band 
between cell and apex; on the hindwing above a broad white band, which is distally em^rginate between 
the veins and hence dentate at the veins; on the under surface of the hindwing the band replaced by a row 
of grey lunules, often reduced or absent, at the distal side of which blue spots are placed; submarginal spots 
red or yellow, above mostly only the anal spot present and even this often absent. The $ in many places 
occurs in only one form, whilst in other districts it is polymorphic. Brown-black, always much paler than 
the forewing posteriorly on the disc never with thin white stripes as in the $ of P. phestus and ambrax 
and in the mimetic $$ of P. polytes. In the normal poly dor ina-iorm, which occurs everywhere, a large 
patch in the apex of the cell of the forewing and a row of large patches on the disc are white with brown 
dusting; the hindwing has a white (sometimes yellowish) discal area, at the distal side of which on the under 
surface blue angular spots are placed. In a second form the forewing is entirely black-brown and has an 
oblique white macular band as in the <$. This band is sometimes entirely absent above. Finally in the 
tenarides- form both wings are for the most part white, or the forewing is grey and the hindwing from the 
base to beyond the apex of the cell white; the hindwing has basally to the submarginal spots black patches, 
on which blue spots are placed. The young larva of the colour of bird-droppings, on the 2. to the 4. seg¬ 
ment with 3 pairs, on each of the other segments with 1 pair of rough spines, which are also retained in the 
full-grown larva; the latter grey-green, with irregular, light longitudinal stripes, behind the 4. segment a black 
belt, which is laterally lost in a broad black-brown lateral stripe, in the middle of the body a black oblique 
band which terminates at the subdorsal spine, and behind it a shorter black transverse stripe; at the outer 
side of the prolegs and above them a black longitudinal stripe consisting of lines; head black. On Citrus. 
The pupa varies according to its surroundings, above in the middle yellow, the dorsum at the base of the 
abdomen rather strongly incurved; thoracic horn scarcely as strongly produced as the truncate horns on 
the head. The butterfly emerges early in the morning. It is found in gardens and in open woods, where 
it is commonly taken feeding at flowers, it also drinks at the edges of brooks and at wayside puddles. The 
flight is somewhat irregular but swift; when the butterfly scents danger it hastens away with great speed. 
— aegeus Don. = erectheus Don.) (23 c). A very common butterfly in the gardens and bush of Queens- aegeus. 
land and New South Wales, which extends southwards to Victoria and is observed even in the streets of the 
towns. <$: forewing always with subapical band; the band of the hindwing touches the cell or is somewhat 
separated from it, frequently there is a small spot in the apex of the cell, the band does not extend beyond 
the lower median; at the distal side of the two last patches of the band in fresh specimens there are grey 
spots; the red anal spot large, round; beneath a complete series of red submarginal spots, sometimes also 
above several submarginal spots. The $ except in the northern part of its range monomorphic ( polydorina - 
form): the distal half of the forewing lighter, the distal margin narrowly blackish; the submarginal spots 
of the hindwing above and beneath darker red than in the other races, the white discal area at least beneath 
extended to the costal, but the first patch usually narrow; the blue discal spots large. At Cape York and 
the islands off it there is also a tenarides-ioxm, $-f. beatrix WaterJi., which is chiefly distinguished from the beatrix, 
corresponding §-f. onesimus Hew. from New Guinea by having the white area of the hindwing beneath con¬ 
stantly connected with the costal margin by a white spot. — adrastu9 Fldr., from the Banda Islands; the adrastus. 
butterfly is common even on the highly cultivated ground of Great Banda. <$■. the bands of both wings 
similar to those of aegeus, the distal spot of the band of the forewing not so near to the margin; the 2. patch 
in the band of the hindwing at most as long as its distance from the margin, rarely a small spot is placed 
in the cell, the red anal spot is at least indicated above; beneath a complete row of red-yellow submarginal 
spots is rarely present and in this case some at least of the spots are small, mostly only the anal spot is 
developed. $ dimorphic; §-f. priasa form, nov., forewing with an oblique row of 5 yellowish patches be- priasa, 
tween cell and subcostal fork, the cell-spot absent above, indicated beneath. Hindwing with small, diffuse 
yellowish discal area, which reaches neither the subcostal nor the 2. median and is at most 8 mm. broad; 
the cell-spot is absent or very small. $-f. tellias form, nov., forewing with light patches in the cell and tellias. 
on the disc, the anterior discal patches more sharply expressed than in the poly dor ina-iorm from New 
Guinea, the posterior ones sharply rounded basally and usually densely dusted with blackish; the white area 
of the hindwing smaller than in New Guinea specimens, with the penultimate patch twice as long as broad, 
the blue spot placed distally to it small, sometimes scarcely indicated, the submarginal spots all well de¬ 
veloped, the 5. and 6. above always smaller than the 3. and 4.; the marginal spots large, which is also the 
case in $-f. priasa; beneath a white discal spot is commonly placed behind the costal. The $ figured by 
Felder with the locality ,,New Guinea 11 shows the characteristics of the Banda specimens and doubtless 
also came from Banda. — goramensis Rothsch. ($ = ? polydorina Haase). the band of the forewing goramensis. 
as in adrastus always well developed, distally to it neither above nor beneath distinct grey stripes; the band 
of the hindwing much broader than in adrastus, always entering the cell and posteriorly extending somewhat 
beyond the 2. median, measured in the middle the 2. to 4. patches are at most as long and the 6. patch some¬ 
what more than half as long as their respective distances from the distal margin. only the polydorina- 
form known, *) which approximates to the corresponding form from Key; the cell-spot of the forewing 
') Wallace, Trans. Linn. Soc. XXV. t. 3. fig. 3, figures a $ which is said to be from Waigeu, but agrees 
very well with the Goram specimens. Fig. 4 of the same plate represents a white $ with the locality Goram; there 
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