PAPILIONIDAE 
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PAPILIO 
5 . Above and Beneath as in male: tornal spot of hindwing above, basally edged metallic blue. 
Log Cape York 3. Prince of Wales Is 5 6 . Cairns 9. Kuranda. Herberton 11 . Ingham 5 9. 
^ Richmond R.i.ijPort Macquarie 10 . 
19 - ^ V m ^^arsh 11 . Kerang 10 11 . Dimboola IL Adelaide 
i^’io 9 ^ ^ ^ ■i Darwin 3 8 12. Roper R. Tennants Creek. 
This race has been separated from the Indian subs]ieeies by the coalescence of the two cream spots 
in cell of forewing: tins distinction is however not invariable, for we have several undoubted Australian 
specimens in which the cell spot is divided. It is remarkable that this butterfly should inhabit tlie drier 
interior rather than the coastal districts: it is a rarity in southern Australia, where wandering sinMe 
examples are occasionally seen. ® 
226. Papilio anactus Macleay. Fig. 562. 
King's Survey of Australia, ii, Appendix, p. 458, 1827. 
^ Above. Forewing black: a large spot in cell at hvothirds and a spot on discocellulars, wdiite dusted 
brown: a senes of L^ge elongate diseal spots, white dusted brown, those in areas la and lb, smaller 
and paler: a series of subtermmal spots, dull white. Hindwing black: a large central area, reaching 
dorsum and costa, white, wuth dividing veins and a spot on discocellulars, black: a series of elongate 
subtermmal spots, black basally edged blue and outwardly edged by a series of spots, dull red: some- 
limes a subapical dot in area 6 and another in area 7 , Avliite. 
Beneath. Forewing as above: si^ots not dusted brown. Hindwing as above: subapical white spots 
always present and larger than above. 
<?. Asora and Beneath as in male. 
Ix)C. Kuranda 11. Ingham 4 5. Townsville. Alackay 1 2 3 9 11. Rockhampton. Brisbane. BlaekhntI 
L Richmond R. 1 3. Manning B. 3. Sydney 1 2 3 4 12. Tllawarra. Blue Mts. 1 10 Mildura 11 
Kerang 2 3 10 11 .^- 15 9 9 . ' . 
This species has no near allies beyond Australia. Tlie sexes are very similar, but tlie male may bo 
at once distinguished by the anal valves. 
227. Papilio ambrax Boisduval. (New Guinea). 
227a. P. ambrax ambrax Boisduval. 
Voyage Astrolabe, Lepidoptera, p. 40, 1832. 
0 . Above. Porewing black. Hindwing black: a large central area, reaching costa and well into area 
la near tornus, xvliite. 
Beneath. Forewing black: a series of subapical dustings botAveen veins, white. Hindwing black: 
a tornal spot, intensely black, towards base broadly edged orange. 
$. Abo\t. Porewing brown-black; a series of discal streaks betAveen A^eins, dusted AAliite. HindAving 
brown-olaek: a small central area, not reaching costa or dorsum, Avbite: a tornal spot, black, margined 
by an uTeguIar patch Avbich reaches area 3, red-brown: a series of three subterminal spots in areas 2. 
3 and 4, red-brown. 
Beneath. Porewing as aboA^e: streaks betAA'^een A^eins more prominent. HindA\4ng as aboA’e: a 
complete series of siibterminal spots, orange, those in areas 5 and 6 , paler and smaller, 
hoc. Darnley Ts. 5 6 . 5q . 
227aa. P. ambrax ambrax, f. ambracius VKallace. 
Transactions Linnean Society London 1865, p. 54. 
Aboae as in ainhra^, but Avith an apical patch on foreAving Avliite. 
Beneath as in ambra^r-: ajrical dustings of forcAving much broader. 
9 . Abo\^ and Beneath as in amhraxj but a white patch beloAV cell of forewing. 
liOC. Darnley Is. 5. 29 . 
The one sex only lias yet been taken AAutbin Australian limits: both examples AA^ere captured with 
dmraa: of both sexes, in May 1910. 
