PAPILIONIDAE 
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TROIDES 
It cannot be expected that each individual butterfly of two adjacent geographical races can in 
every instance be distinguished with certainty. Yet the males of poseidon can be separated from those 
of pronomus^ by the larger green spots of forewing beneath, and by their decidedly golden tino-e as 
contrasted with the bluish tinge of 2 JTononius, The females of the two races are less easily separated, 
blit none of our poseidoii females show the yellowish suffusion of IiindAving above usual in female 
pronomxis, 
224b. T. priamus pronomus Gray. Fig. 550, 551. 
Catalogue Lepidopterons Insects British Museum, p. 2, pi, 1, f. 1, 2, 1852. 
o'. AiiOVT Avith mai kings typical. ForcAving A\uth green bands not cjuite so broad as in pose/doji: green 
streak along inedian rarely absent, often confined to that A’ein, but sometimes continued along A’eins 
2, 3 and 4. HindAving AAuth termen narroAvly black: a series of up to fiA^e discal spots, black: often 
a series of small subterminal spots and a subcostal streak, golden. 
Beneath Avith markings typical. Forewing with green spots smaller than in poseidon, and Avith cell 
spot and discal spots tinged bluish. HindAving green tinged bluish: termen and cell veins narrowly 
black: a series of six discal spots, with sometimes a seventh in area la, black: tornal area faintly 
golden-yelloAv: usually a series of subterminal spots and a subcostal streak, golden. 
9. Above ivith markings typical. Forewing black: a large cell spot, and a discal and siibterminal 
series of variable spots coalescing towards costa, greyisli AA'hite. Hindwing black: termen often 
suffused yelloAv: elongate pale spots of outer area dusted bronze, less often eoalescent, and usually 
more sharply pointed toAvards base than in fig. 551. 
Beneath Avith markings typical : elongate spots of outer area of hindAving sometimes Avholly yelloAV. 
Loc. Cape York 2 3 4 5 10 11 12. Claudie B. 1 12. 27cf 14 Q . 
Our males are more Amriable than those of poseidon^ but this may be due to the greater number 
from which our series haA’e been selected: one or two examples show a slightly bluish tinge in green 
areas aboA^e. The females are also Available, Avith pale spots larger or smaller tlian in figure: one example 
bas the black discal spots of hindwing aboA^e barely discernible. 
This and the last subspecies may be readily distinguished from the remaining two by the narrow 
black margins of cell of hindwing beneath in the male. 
224c. T. priamus euphorion Gray. 
Catalogue Lepidopterous Insects British Museum, p. 4, pi. 2, f. 3, 1852. 
o'*. Above with markings typical. ForevA’ing AAuth subdorsal green band undulate: green streak of median 
vein absent. HindAving Avith termen more broadly black llian in fig. 550: a series of four or five 
large discal spots, black: a large subcostal spot and often a series of subterminal spots golden. 
Beneath AA’itli markings typical. ForeAving Avith green spots, especially cell spot, much smaller 
than in fig. 550, and all tinged bluish. HindAving green tinged bluish: termen and cell A’eins black: a 
series of seven large discal spots, black: usually a large subcostal spot and a series of subterminal 
spots, golden yelloAV. 
9. Aboa’e Avith markings typical. ForeAving black: scoots dusted grey, usually inucli smaller than in 
fig. 551, discal series alAAmys incomplete, and subterminal spots ahvays small. HindAving black: outer 
area with a series of basally pointed elongate spots, greyish heaA’ily dusted bronze, and each partially 
or wliolly enclosing a large discal spot, black. 
Beneath as Above: elongate spots of liindAAung yelloAA^, except the basal points, Avhite. 
hoc. Cairns 6 7. Knranda 1 2 3 6 7 S 9 10 11 12. Ingham 4 5 9. Goondi 3. Mackay 5 9. ToAvnsville 
5 6. 28d'2l9. 
The male is ahvays Avithont the green streak of median A’ein of foreAving aboA’e. The female is 
Qoite as large as poseidon and ^rronomns, but is easily distinguished by the decidedly smaller and 
much darker pale spots: it is subject to considerable A’ariation : Ave haA^e one example shoAving no trace 
wbateA’er of the pale cell spot of the foreAAlng aboA^'e. 
