P. Telemachus, Mont. Ann. de la Soc. d’Agriculture de Lyon, 1856, p. 395.
Hab. Woodlark Isl. (S. E. of New Guinea).
Remark.—This is a small species (exp. 4 in.), with less blue on the lower wings.
e. Peranthus group.
35. Papilio Peranthus, Fabricius.
P. Peranthus, Fab. Syst. Ent. iii. 1. p. 15; Don. Ins. China, pl. 26; Lucas, Lep. Ex. t. 12. f. 2; Boisd. Sp. Gén. Lép. p. 203.
Hab. Java, Lombock (Wall.).
36. Papilio Pericles, n. sp. Tab. VI. fig. 1 (♂).
Wings more elongate, and upper wings more pointed, than in P. Peranthus.
Above: black, the basal half of a silvery blue, greenish towards the base of the costa, and purplish on the outer margin, where on the lower wings it shades off into separate scales. On the submedian and two lower branches of the median nervure are elongate black cottony patches as in P. Ulysses, the lower ones joined at the base, the upper one separate; above these the outer margin is of a brown-black, with a few atoms of yellow and blue scales towards the apex; the blue colour extends beyond the discoidal cell of the upper wings in a line parallel with the outer margin, on the lower wings it rounds away to the anal angle, and below it are five submarginal lunules of blue atoms, the outer one almost obsolete, and that next the tail largest and most deeply coloured. Thorax and body green.