PAPILIONIDAE 
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MENEIiAIDES 
Genus IVEENELAIDES Hubner. 
Verzeichniss bekannter Scliinetterliiige, p. 84, 1816. 
Anteunae less than half the length of costa. Forew iug narrow with apex rounded: vein 12 reaehin"' 
costa be\oiid end of cell. \ein 11 free; vein 11 and vein 10 from outer third of subcostal: vein 9 fi’oin 
upper apex of cell: vein 8 stalked Avith vein 7: vein (1 arising nearer to vein 7 than to vein 5: vein la 
and median joined by a crossvein near base: vein lb present. Hindwing with vein 4 produced to a tail 
in one sjiecies, and a tooth in the other: precostal vein present, and iirocostal cell narrow: vein lb absent 
Males without secondary sexual characters. Abdomen without anal valves in the male, and without a 
sphragis after fertihzahon in the female. Pupa Avith truncate head, extended Avingeases, and Avith four 
pairs of flattened projections on dorsal surface of abdomen. 
Type. Menelaides polydorus Linne, from the Aloluecas. 
Foodplaxt. ArislolocMa. 
238. Menelaides polydorus Linne. (S. Moluccas). 
238a. M. polydorus queenslandicus Koiliscliild. Fig. 563. 
Novitates Zoologicae 1895, p. 240. 
oL Above. Forewing black: an outer series of narrow streaks between veins, dusted white, and 
de\eloped below cell to a variable and ill-defined patch, white. Hindwing black: a central area covering 
outer third of cell and extending from vein la to vein 6, white and divided into sj^ots by the black veins; 
a series of subterminal spots, faintly dusted red. Apex of abdomen, red. 
Beneath. Forewing as above. Hindwing as above; a series of large subterminal spots, and a spot 
on dorsum at half, bright red. 
Above and Beneath as in male: termen of forewing more convex. 
Loc. Cape York 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 11. Thursday Is. 4. Prince of Wales Is. 5 6 7. Banks Is. 2 3. Darnley 
Is. 112. . Murray Is. 8 9. Claudie R, 11, Coen 11. Cooktown 11. Kuranda 1 9. Ingham 5 9. 
45cp 21$. 
This subspecies varies in the extent of the dusted white markings of forewing above. Some 
examples show an extra white spot in base of area 6, and another near base of area 7, of hindwing' 
beneath, and rarely these spots are present above. 
239. Menelaides liris Godart. Fig. 574. 
Encyclopedia Methodique, IX, p. 72, 1819. 
(?. Above. Forewing brown: outer half of cell and an outer series of broad streaks between veins, 
heavily dusted white. Hindwing black: an ill-dehned central band, cream: a series of subterminal 
spots, faintly dusted red. Apex of abdomen, red, 
BENEATTr. Forewing as above. Hindwing as above: a series of large subterminal spots, bright red; 
a spot on dorsum at half, dusted red. 
lx)C. N. W. Australia. 
This species occurs in Timor, and xvith slight variations in Timor Laut, Wetter Is., and Letti Is. 
Our iigure and description are taken from a coloured drawing of a reputed Australian sioeeimen in the 
British Museum, the locality of which is questioned by Rothschild in his Alonograph of the family. 
AO other Australian examples are known, but from independent field observations that have reached 
iis, we believe that a form of this species does occur in northxvest Australia, probably in the troioical 
scrub of the Ord Rivei*. 
