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PAPILIO. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
ciminius. — ciminius Fruhst. : ground-colour above and beneath darker than in the preceding forms and above less 
extended in consequence of the darkening of the base of both wings, also the costal margin of the forewing 
is deep brown-black and there are no light markings in and before the subcostal fork. The brown markings 
of the under surface are on the whole thinner than in evan; the ground-colour of the distal area is almost 
uniform red-brown and contrasts with the lighter discal area. 'The $ not known. East and West Sumatra, 
brunei. Malay. Peninsula. —- brunei Fruhst. $ as the preceding, but the ground-colour of the marginal area of the 
under surface paler, hence less distinctly contrasted with the disc. The $ differs from that of evan principally 
in the absence of light spots before the subcostal fork on the upperside of the forewing and the reduction 
of the black markings on the upperside of the hindwing, and also in the darker ground-colour of the under 
payeni. surface. North and South-East Borneo. — payeni Bdv. g as in brunei, but the upper surface of the forewing 
with 3 yellow patches in the marginal cell placed behind the subcostal fork. The anterior silver spots of the 
hindwing beneath less well developed in both sexes. In the $ the dark border of the upperside of the fore¬ 
wing somewhat weaker at the costal margin than in the $ of brunei. Java. 
Codrus-Group. 
The 1st subcostal of the forewing runs into the costal vein. Body robust, without light stripe at each 
side of the back, tail broad, obtuse. Wings for the most part black, green-black or brownish black-grey, at 
least in the costal area of the forewing with green spots, under surface of the hindwing in the basal half with¬ 
out red or yellow spots, at most the costal margin is very narrowly red. The claws in some species with 
tooth, as in the payeni- group. 
cjelon. P. gelon Bdv. (44 c, d). Nearly allied to P. macleayanus. Body above greenish black, beneath dirty 
grey-yellow, legs green, claws with small tooth; antenna beneath yellow-brown. Upper surface of the wings 
black, with green markings; forewing with a band of 4 spots before the base of the 3 rd radial running straight 
to the hindmargin, a spot in the apex of the cell and two spots behind the cell, all these spots often very 
small and sometimes only partly indicated; hindwing without tail, with narrow band before the middle. 
Under surface much paler, the veins in the distal area green, the band of the hindwing white and the costal 
margin red at the base; forewing with some white submarginal spots. $ paler than the <$, the forewing with 
yellowish submarginal spots, on the hindwing some similar small spots, which are placed at a distance from 
megasthenes. the margin. A $ with broad band on the hindwing is ab. megasthenes Math. — The butterfly is not rare 
in New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. 
macleaya- P. macleayanus Leach (42 a, b). Body beneath grey-white, above dark with grey-white hairs, with 
nus " the exception of the head and the anterior part of the thorax, which are greenish brown-black; legs green; 
underside of the antenna brown-yellow. Wings above black, a large basal area white-green, on the forewing 
a spot in the apex of the cell and a second distally to it green, a row of small submarginal spots and a small 
discal spot white-green. On the under surface the anterior part of the basal area of the forewing, the cell-spot 
and subcostal spot and on the hindwing the basal area green, without scales, the forewing at the distal 
margin black-brown, the distal area of the hindwing of the same colour, traversed by a white-grey or pale 
brownish submarginal band and a short, oblique band of the same colour which is placed behind the apex of 
the cell, the costal margin of the hindwing narrowly red, especially at the base and before the apex. The 
young larva is almost black, with white dorsal line and whitish underside, a black hairy tubercle on the 3 
thoracic segments and the last segment, the other segments with a transverse row of forked bristles, similar 
bristles also on the thorax. When full-grown green, with small, faint white and greenish spots and slight 
dark thoracic belt; on the 3 rd segment a pair of dark brown spines, from which extends a yellowish white 
longitudinal line. Pupa green, with 2 roundish reddish spots on the dorsum; the thoracic horn long. Food- 
plants: Geijera salicifolia and the imported Camphora officinalis. The butterfly flies in the gardens and open 
shrubby woods of East Australia from Tasmania to Queensland (extending northwards to about Cairns) and 
occurs also on the islands Lord Howe and Norfolk. It has a swift and agile flight and is fond of visiting 
flowers. 
weiskei. P. weiskei Ribbe. body above brown-black, beneath grey-brown. Wings more elongate than in 
P. macleayanus, the forewing with large subbasal purple area behind the cell, the transverse area at the apex 
of the cell anteriorly green, posteriorly blue or purple-red, the subcostal spot green, the submarginal spots 
small and bluish green; the hindwing with green basal area and 2 blue submarginal patches, before which there 
are usually 3 small, more or less indistinct submarginal spots. Under surface similar to that of P. macleay¬ 
anus \ the basal half of the cell of the forewing green, the area placed below the cell white; hindwing with 
thin red costal streak before the apex. The purple area varies from purple-red to purple-blue. The $ similar 
to the (J: §-f. weiskei Ribbe (42 a); or the basal area of the forewing and the submarginal spots of the hind- 
cuprasina. wing green: $-f. euprasina form. nov. — The butterfly is not rare in the mountains of British New Guinea; 
A. S. Meek found it in considerable numbers at both the south and north sides of the Owen Stanley Range. 
