PLATE 1. Fig. 2.
Pap. Remus, _Fabr. Godart_, _Cramer_, 135, A, 136, A, and 386, A,
B.--Pap. hypolithus, var. _Cramer_, 10, A, B, 11, A, B.
One of the largest species, the expansion of the wings sometimes
measuring nearly eight inches. The superior pair are black, with a
slight greenish reflection, and having a broad greyish-white stripe
running along each side of the secondary nervures. The inferior wings
are dark grey on the surface, and of a shining white on the under
side, the latter having a black sinuated border interrupted by seven
irregular spots of golden-yellow diminishing in size as they approach
the abdominal margin. In the female, which is the sex represented on
the adjoining plate, the golden-yellow spots are much larger, somewhat
wedge-shaped, and each of them, except the outermost, marked with a
large oval black spot. The abdomen is bright yellow above, paler on
the under side, and irregularly spotted with black; the head, thorax,
breast, and antennæ entirely of the latter colour.
The native country of this elegant species is the island of Amboina.