( 170) 



therefore appearing to be less oblique than in rosselanus ; the greyish lunule R^ — R' 

 of the hindwing also is less oblique than in rosselanus. 



Hah. Sndest Island, Lonisiade Archipelago, April 1898 (A. S. Meek). 



4 $$. 



The four sjieciniens are evenly disoohmred, tlie light yellow markings having 

 assumed an ochreous tint. 



27. Papilio demoleus novoguineensis snbsp. nov. 



5 ? . Similar to 1'. d. stheiielus from North Australia. The pale yellow patches 

 situated below the cell of the forewing smaller than in sthenelus, the one placed 

 behind the second median vein shorter, being about as long as broad, deeply 

 incised on the distal side, the cell-spot more deeply constricted than it usually 



is in sthenelus. On the hindwing there is no small spot below the tij) of tiie 



cell, or the spot is minute. 



On the underside the forewing is more extended black than in the Australian 

 subspecies ; the black bars on the disc of the hindwing are broader, and the orange 

 anal spot is always bordered with black on tlie proximal side iu both sexes, this 

 border, which is usually absent from Australian specimens, being always broader 

 than in the latter. 



Uab. British New Guinea : Lower Aroa R. (A. S. Meek), and Redscar Bay (Lix). 



A series. 



28. Papilio helenus tambora subsp. nov. 



Papilio helenus biserialns Rothsch., Nui\ Zool. ii. p. 287. n. 72. f. (18'J5) (partim ; Sumbawa). 



c?. Similar to P. helenus enganius Doh. (1891), from Lombok, Java, Sumatra, 

 etc., differing especially in the orange-rnfous discal spots jilaced on the underside 

 of the hindwing before the abdominal margin being very mucji enlarged ; some 

 specimens bear in front of these orange-rufous patches one or two small spots of 

 the same colour. 



Ilab. Sumbawa, September 1890 (W. Dolierty). 



A series. 



The next subspecies proves that I was wrong in assuming that the Sumbawa 

 specimens belong to the Timorese race biseriatus. 



29. Papilio helenus mangarinus subsp. nov. 



c?. The orange-rufous spots of the hindwing beneath, referred to in the 

 preceding description, are in size and colour intermediate between these spots of 

 P. h. enganius and P. h. tambora, being larger and paler than in enganius, and 

 smaller and generally more reddish than in tambora. The grey streaks on the 

 underside of the forewing are longer than in both subs])ecies mentioned. 



Ilab. South Flores, November 1896 (A. Everett). 



7 S$. 



30. Papilio helenus jindanus subsp. nov. 



S ? . Large ; forewing strongly falcate, recalling the falcate forewing of 

 P. memnon merapu from the same island. The first white patch on the upperside 

 of the hindwing large, sijuare, not being wider behind than in front, the other 

 two patches likewise large, being nearly twice as long as their distance from tiie 

 outer margin ; abdominal margin longer than in the other subspecies of helenus. 



