Distribution the same as the male.
3rd form of female (P. Elyros, G. R. Gray, B. M. List Pap. p. 26).
The white patch on the lower wings reduced to a small spot, or quite absent. There are many varieties of this, showing very instructively how such isolated forms of female as occur in the two preceding species may have been produced by simple variation followed by a “natural selection” of the forms best adapted to special conditions.
Hab. Philippine Islands (B. M.)
65. Papilio Nicanor, Felder, ‘Voyage of the Novara,’ pl. ... f. c, d.
Male. Upper side:—like P. Alphenor ♂; but the band of white spots is broader and more regular, and there is a row of four white submarginal lunules.
Under side as in P. Alphenor; but the marginal spots of the upper wings, and the submarginal lunules of the lower wings, are larger and more distinct.
Female quite tailless, like the male. Upper side:—like P. Alphenor ♀; but the rufous anal spots are much smaller, not forming an ocellus at the anal angle, and they do not join the white central patch.
Under side, differs from P. Alphenor in nearly the same manner as on the upper side.
Hab. Batchian, Gilolo, Morty Island (Wall.).