74. Papilio Adrastus, n. s. Tab. IV. fig. 1 (♀).
Male.—Upper side, like P. Ormenus ♂; but has the band of the hind wings narrower, not crossing the cell, and more pointed towards the anal angle.
Under side with a single red anal spot, and three blue lunules beyond it.
Female.—Upper side brown-black; anterior wings with the apical half browner, a whitish patch around the end of the cell, and an ovate spot within it; posterior wings with a small central whitish patch more or less tinged with ochreous; a submarginal row of very large deep-red lunules, that at the anal angle forming an irregular ocellus bordered above with pale blue, and a few blue atoms on the side of it. Indentations of all the wings broadly margined with ochreous.
Under side:—the white patch of the anterior wings larger and well defined, and continued by smaller and fainter patches to the outer angle; posterior wings with the small central patch and marginal lunules as above, with the addition of a faint row of angulated blue marks between them.
Wings elongated posteriorly, and somewhat angulated at the termination of the first median nervure.
Expanse of wings, ♂, 5¼ inches; ♀, 6 inches.
Hab. Banda Island (Wall.).
Remarks.—This species is near P. Ormenus in the male, but approaches P. Gambrisius in the female, which differs from all others in this group by its dark colouring and the short narrow band on the hind wings. A male and two females were obtained in the small island of Banda.
75. Papilio Gambrisius, Cramer.