PAPILIONIDAE 
1G5 
PAPIIilO 
230a. P. fuscus capaneus TV^estwoocl. Fig. 527. 
Arcana Entomologica, ii, p. 15, pi. 52, f. 1, 2, 1843. 
o’. Asora. Forewing dark brown: a narrow discal band, ill-defined as it diminislies towards dorsum, 
cream. Hmdwing dark brown: a discal band, swelling broadly from vein 7 to vein 4, then diminish¬ 
ing rapidly and sometimes not reaching dorsum, wliile: a tornal spot and an incomplete series of sub- 
ierramal spots, orange broadly edged black and beyond towards base faintly edged blue. 
Beneath Forewing as above but paler and terminal area faintly dusted white. Hindwing as above 
blit paler: discal white hand reduced to large spots: a tornal spot and a complete series of snbter- 
mmal spots, orange broadly edged black and beyond towards base faintly edged blue. 
Q. Above and Beneath as in male: subterminal orange spots more clearly defined. 
Loc. Cape \ork 3 11. Clandie K. 1. Cooktown 12. Kuranda 1. Ingham 4. Maekay 4. Rockhamp¬ 
ton. Brisbane. 20o^ llQ. 
230b. P. fuscus indicatus Butler. 
Annals Magazine Natural History 1876, p. 248. 
brown-black: an obscure nax'row diseal band, often reduced to subapieal spots, 
whitish. Hindwing brown-black: a discal band, swelling broadly from vein 7 to vein 4, then diminish¬ 
ing rapidly and usually not reaching dorsum, white: rarely a small tornal spot, orange. 
Beneath. Forewing as above, but paler and terminal areas dusted Avhite. Hindwing as above, 
blit paler, discal white band reduced to small spots: sometimes a tornal spot, and a eomjilete series 
of small subtenninal spots, pale orange broadly edged blacky and beyond towards base edged blue. 
9. ABOVii and Beneath as in male: snbterminal orange spots more clearly defined. 
Ix)C. Thursday Is. 1 12. Banks Is. 2 3. Alnrray Is. 9. Darnley Is. 2 3 12. 12^’ 2 q. 
This subspecies is separated from capaneus by its darker colour, narrower and more obscure discal 
pale bands, the usual absence of the tornal orange spot, and bv the mneli paler and smaller orano-e 
Fublerminal spots. ‘ ” 
Thursday Is. and Cape York examples are treated in Seitz' iMacrolcpidoptera as indicaUis, and 
Fnihstorfer also describes Cape York examples as yorl'eanus. The transition from capaneus to 
m^icahis is so gradual that it is very difficult to define the geogi’aixbical limits: we consider it best to 
treat all continental ex'amples as capaneus, and all insular examples as indicatus: Cape York specimens 
are really intergrades. 
230c. P. fuscus canopus lYestw'ood. Fig. 526. 
Annals Magazine Natural History 1842, p. 38: Arcana Entomologica, ii, p. 81, pi. 68, 1844. 
c?. Above. Forewdng black: a band of discal spots, cream. Hindwing black: a band of large discal 
spots, white: sometimes a faint tornal spot and indications of an incomplete series of faint subter¬ 
minal spots, pale orange broadly edged black and beyond towards base faintly edged blue. 
Beneath. Forewing as above but paler. Hindwing as above but paler: a tornal spot, orange: a 
complete series of snbterminal spots, cream broadl.y edged black and beyond towards base edged blue. 
9. Abo^ and Beneath as in male: forewing Avitb discal spots in areas 2, 3 and 4 usually smaller: 
hindwing usually with a tornal spot and a complete series of subterminal spots, yellow: lateral 
white lines of abdomen much broader. 
Loc. Daly R. 4. Darwin 1 2 3 4 8 9 10 12. Melville Is. (type). 17cf 11 Q. 
The record of this subspecies from Cape York, in Seitz' Afacrolepidoptera, is an error. 
231. Papilio leosthenes Doubleday. Fig. 553. 
Annals Magazine Natural History 1846, p. 372. 
d’. Above, Forewing dull wdiite: a series of four bands, first and second from costa to dorsum, third 
from costa to vein 2, fourth from costa to median, broAvn-black: termenbroadlybroAvn-blacknarroxv- 
mg to dorsum: a narrow subterminal band, dull white, with traces of an inner band, dusted white. 
Hindwing dull wdiite: a narrow band from costa at base to tornns, and another from costa at one- 
tliird to vein 2 beyond cell, brown-black: termen broAvn-blaek and dorsum narrowl 3 '^ brown-black: tornal 
area dusted grey: a tornal sjxot and a series of small discal sjxots from vein 4 to dorsum, yellow-brown 
edged black: a series of subterminal sjiots, dull white, those in tornal area outwardly edged dull blue. 
Beneath. Forewing as above. Hindwing as above: discal spots extending to area 8, yellow- 
brown edged black. 
