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PAPILIO. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
The earlier stages not known, probably very similar to those of P. aegeus. A butterfly of the open woods 
with a profusion of undergrowth, among which it flies about with great rapidity; it drinks at puddles and 
gambrisius. the edges of brooks. Southern Moluccas. — gambrisius Cr. ($ = drusius Cr., fusconiger Goeze, drimachus 
Godt.; $ — amphitrion Cr. artefact; = colossus Fruhst.) (24b). under surface of the hindwing with 
abbreviatus. small yellow-red anal spot, without submarginal spots. (J-ab. abbreviatus Rothsch.: band of the hindwing 
only reaching the 2. median; from Amboina in coll. Oberthur (ex coll. Boisduval). Fruhstorfe’rs P. aegeus 
oritinus. oritinus, which was described from a specimen without locality, is perhaps an aberrant starveling of gam¬ 
brisius with exceptionally large grey discal patches on the underside of the hindwing. According to Fruh- 
storfer C<3 from Ceram have a much larger and $$ a much smaller cell-spot on the hindwing than examplee 
from Amboina, which is not confirmed by our specimens. $: the 8.—5. spots of the band of the hindwing 
shorter than the 1. and 2. spots. Amboina, Saparoea, Ceram. Bare; collectors obtain but few specimens; 
buruanus. the insect easily eludes pursuit by its swift flight. •—- buruanus Rothsch. $: apex of the forewing strongly 
striped with grey, the subapical spots mostly larger than in the preceding form. The band of the hindwing 
narrower, the yellow-red anal spot on the underside of the hindwing large, also several yellow-red submarginal 
spots are present. §: the 1. and 2. spots in the band of the hindwing shorter and the 3.— 5. longer than 
in gambrisms, the yellow-red submarginal spots above and beneath sharply developed. Burn, at the coast 
and in the mountains. 
P. inopinatus. Nearly allied to P. aegeus. $: forewing with broad, white subapical band, which 
extends from the costal margin to the 3. radial and touches the upper angle of the cell. The band of the 
hindwing similar to that of P. aegeus, the 4. patch the longest, about as long as its distance from the distal 
margin, the 6. thin, .posteriorly pointed, often not reaching the 2. median, behind this vein no white spot; 
the yellowish red anal spot above always present, beneath in addition one or several submarginal spots 
developed, the white cell-spot small or absent. $ ’ n one form: forewing with broad white or somewhat 
yellowish band from the middle of the costal margin to the hinder angle; hindwing black, above without 
discal spot, but with large red submarginal spots, beneath with very narrow diffuse brownish yellow or whi- 
inopinatus. tish discal band, which is remote from the cell. The earlier stages unknown. — inopinatus Btlr. (24 a), from 
different islands of the Tenimber Group. The anal spot of the hindwing in the J and the submarginal 
lcosmos. spot of the upperside of the hindwing in the $ red. — kosmos Fruhst. (= inauris Fruhst.). The sub¬ 
marginal spots of the hindwing somewhat more yellowish (faded after death in the tropical climate ?) and 
the marginal spots on the whole somewhat larger; none of the other differences given by Fruhstorfer are 
tenable. Babber, hammer and Eoma. 
oberon. P. oberon Gr.-Sm. (23 c). Nearly allied to P. aegeus. forewing with rather broad, straight 
macular band; the band of the hindwing reaches the 2. median, the red anal spot is large; beneath the hind¬ 
wing has a complete row of large red submarginal spots and from the anal patch forwards a number of 
yellowish white discal spots. forewing above with some somewhat diffuse spots distally to the apex of 
the cell; these spots beneath developed into a broad band, which touches the apex of the cell and runs from 
the costal to the 3. radial; on the under surface a small angular spot in the cell and a larger white spot be¬ 
fore the anal angle. Hindwing above with small yellowish white discal area from the subcostal nearly to 
the abdominal margin, consisting of 7 spots (including the cell-spot), beneath the area developed into an 
anteriorly and posteriorly thin band, which reaches to the costal and touches the cell; the red submarginal 
spots large on both sides. — On the Santa Cruz Islands. 
P. bridgei. The sexes very different. $ black as in P. aegeus, forewing with macular band from 
the costal to the hindmargin, or with subapical band and a patch placed before the hindmargin. The white 
band of the hindwing formed as in P. aegeus, i. e. the 1. patch prolonged basad; beneath the hindwing 
has red-yellow or reddish grey submarginal and blue discal spots. The $ corresponds to the polydorma- 
form of P. aegeus; the patches white or yellowish, the submarginal spots of the hindwing sometimes yellow- 
red; the forewing with large cell-spot, which is remote from the apex of the cell, and a band of discal patches 
which are separated by broad brown-black vein-stripes and of which the 3 posterior ones are placed much 
further from the distal margin than in P. aegeus; the hindwing with large cell-spot and 6 patches placed 
round the cell, which are distally rounded and all closely approximated to it, the 1. spot sometimes in¬ 
distinct or obsolete. Larva very similar to that of P. aegeus, green, with irregular, short light longitudinal 
streaks, black head, black legs and above them a broad black longitudinal stripe, from which 4 bands ema¬ 
nate, on the 4., 7., 9: and last segments; the spines as in P. aegeus; on Citrus, in the forest. Pupa as in 
P. aegeus, in proportion to its size somewhat more slender. The butterfly in woods, where it is not easy 
to catch on account of the thick undergrowth and its swift flight. Appears to occur on all the islands 
bridgei. of the Solomon Group, but is not yet known from Maleyta. — bridgei Math. (= fischeri Ribbe, nobilior 
Fruhst., togonis Rothsch.). Our large series of specimens shows that only one form flies on the islands from 
Bougainville to Isabel; the differences given for the specimens from the various islands prove to be quite 
unreliable. The submarginal spots of the hindwing beneath in $ and $ large, at least the posterior ones 
broader than or as broad as the black border separating them from the marginal spots. Ribbe has named 
