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Show 1877.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM CAPE YORK. 471 Genus PAPILIO, Linnaeus. 26. PAPILIO ADRASTUS. Papilio adrastus, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. i. p. 110, pl. 16. figs, a, b (1865). Several of both sexes. New Guinea. 27. PAPILIO PANDION. Papalio pandion, Wallace, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. p. 56. n. 72 (1865). One female (like P. onesimus, but smaller). New Guinea. This female appears to be modified in imitation of Tenaris. 28. PAPILIO POLYDORUS. Papilio polydorus, Linnseus, Syst. i. 2, p. 746 (1767). Forty-eight specimens, of both sexes. (Jape York. 29. PAPILIO CHOREDON. Papilio choredon, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. xiv. p. 306 (1864). One example. Cape York. 30. PAPILIO MACFARLANEI, n. sp. Wings above black, spotted and banded with green, according to the general pattern of P. agamemnon, but the central series of spots enlarged so as to form a broad tapering macular band on the primaries, and a wedge-shaped band (white on costal area) on the secondaries; the submarginal spots and the discal spots of secondaries smaller than in P. agamemnon : primaries below differing in the same way as above, but the secondaries with very different basal area, more nearly resembling that of P. telephus, pale green with a broad brown belt parallel to the abdominal margin, and a short tapering streak (from the costa to the subcostal nervure) interupted upon the costal nervure by a scarlet spot, and terminating in a smaller scarlet spot; a few scarlet scales near the base of the interspace enclosed by the subcostal branches, and a scarlet spot above the black anal spot; no trace of the conspicuous white costal spot invariably found in P. agamemnon, or of the scarlet-edged black spot which precedes it. Expanse of wings 3 inches 9 lines. Two specimens (rather worn). New Guinea. Intermediate in character between P. wallacei and the succeeding species. We have a Papilio scarcely differing from it, from Ternate. 31. PAPILIO JEGISTUS. Papilio cegistus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 754. n. 48 (1766). Two shattered examples. New Guinea. 32. PAPILIO INDICATUS. Papilio indicatus, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii. p. 248. n. 29 (1876). Several worn specimens. New Guinea. |