PAPILIONIDAE 
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PAPIIilO 
This form of aegens corresponfls with the Q form onesinms of aegeus ormenuSj and like 07 iesimiis 
is vei7 variable. In colour it ranges from cream to white both above and beneath, and varies consider¬ 
ably in the extent of the pale areas and the width of the ill-defined dark margins. The figure is taken 
from the example in the Miskin collection of the Queensland Museum: the tvpe in the Waterhouse 
collection (captured since the plate was engraved) is almost identical. 
Many of the northern specimens of aegeus aegeus naturally sIioav strong affinities Avith the next sub¬ 
species. One of our males from Cape York is identical with some males of ormenus from NeAV Guinea, 
and several females from Cape York haA’e the Avhite bar of liindwing beneath very narroAV. So far we 
have seen no males corresponding Avith orme^ius form i^or females approaching the socalled 
'iypieaP form of ormeuus. IMany of the females from Banks Ts. cannot he separated from females of 
ormenus from Ycav Guinea, tlie wliite bar having entirely disappeared. 
A reniarkahle aberration of female aegeus aegeus Avas figured by Olliff in Proceedings Linnean 
Society K S. Wales 1S86, ]). 1252: this has the snhtorminal red spots of hindAving reaching nearly to 
the central Avliite area. 
22Sb. P. aegeus ormenus Guerin. 
Voyage Coquille, pi. 14, f. 3. 1829: Roths child, Novitates Zoologicae 1895, p. 306-7. 
Aboa^e. Forewing black: a band of snbapieal spots, white. Hindwing black: a large centra! area, 
usually entering cell, AAdiite : rarely a tornal spot, orange-red. 
Bexeatii. PoreAving as above: apex dusted Avbite. Hindwing black: a tornal spot and an incom¬ 
plete series of subterminal spots, orange-red, with faint indications only of an inner series of narroAv 
Iimiilar sjiots dusted blue and grey. 
9. Above. ForeAving brown-black: a large sjmt in cell at threefonrths and a comi)lete outer series 
of large elongate spots, Avhite dusted brown. HindAving hroAAm-black: a central area, white: a tornal 
spot and a complete series of snhterminal spots, orange-red sometimes paler: traces of an incomplete 
series of diseal spots, dusted blue. 
Beneath. Forewing as ahoA’e; large spots of‘outer area paler. Hindwing as aboA^e: subterminal 
spots larger and paler: traces of a complete series of discal spots, dusted blue. 
hoc. Darnley Is. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Murray Is. 8 9. 40 28 $ . 
We haA'e described the usual female form met Avith 0A’'er the Avhole range of ormenus^ and corres¬ 
ponding Avith the normal female form of aegeus : in Seitz^ Macrolepidoptera this form is called leporina 
Jordan. 
228ba. P. aegeus ormenus, f. pandion Wallace. 
Transactions Linnean Society London 1865, p. 56. 
(?. Above. ForeAAung black: a narroAv band of small snbapieal spots, AAdiite. Hindwing black: a large 
central area, usually entering cell, white: rarely a tornal spot, orange-red. 
Beneath. Forewing as aboA’e: apex dusted Avbite. IliudAving as in typical aegeus ormenus, 
hoc. Darnley Is. 5. Murray Is. 8. 3(?. 
228bb. P. aegeus ormenus, Q f. timoxena Jordan. 
Seitz ^ Macrolepidoptera, Vol. TX, p. 67. 
9. Above. ForeAving broAvn-hlack: a faint bar just beyond end of cell, Avhitish. HindAving as in 
typical ormenuSj but with central white area much smaller. 
Beneath. ForeAving as above: AAdiitish postcellular bar larger. HindAving as above: central Avhite 
area smaller. 
TiOC. Darnley Is. 5. Murray Ts. 8. 3 Q . 
228hc. P. aegeus ormenus, s f. amanga Boisduval. 
Voyage Astrolabe, Lepidoptera, p. 39, 1832. 
9- Above. ForeAidng grey-broAvn: A^eins broAvn. HindAving Avhite: termen broadly broAAm: tornal area 
yellow. 
Beneath. Forewing grey-broAvn, toAvards base brown: a broad band across discocellulars and 
nearly reaching tornus, Avhite. HindAving as above. 
hoc. Darnley Is. 6 7. Murray Is. 8. 5 $ . 
