Beneath: as in P. Peranthus, but the posterior range of lunules margined with brilliant blue and orange brown.
Expanse of wings 3½ inches.
Hab. Timor (♂) (Wall.).
37. Papilio Philippus, Wallace. Tab. VI. fig. 3.
P. Peranthus, var. A, Boisd. Sp. Gén. Lép. p. 204.
Above: basal half of the wings of a rich green-blue, the rest black, with a triangular patch at the apex of the uppers, formed of green atoms situated between the nervures; on the lower wings six large submarginal lunules, the lowest of which sends out some green atoms along the tail. The black cottony spot is of a different form from that of P. Peranthus, the separate patches being only joined in the middle, and two of them extending along the nervures in a point nearly to the discoidal cell.
Beneath: brilliantly marked with lunules of buff, black, and blue.
Expanse of wings 4½–5 inches.
Hab. Moluccas (Wall.).
Remarks.—My specimen from Ceram is of a greener tinge, and the colour extends a little beyond the end of the discoidal cell; that from Batchian is smaller, of a bluer tinge, and the colour of less extent. The species seems to be very rare.