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one, two, or three miiinte white subapical spots, the other specimens being without 

 them. 



? . In two forms : 



?-f. melia. — Forewing all browu above, somewhat darker proximally than 

 distall\', witli just a vestige of grey spots between the third subcostal and first 



radial veins. White patch of liindwing evenly rounded proximally, just entering 



into the tij) of the cell, posteriorly not reaching the second median vein, the third 

 spot of this patch half as long again as its distance from the outer margin. 



Underside : forewing with three diffuse dirty grey spots between the third 



subcostal and first radial veins. Hindwing with five white discal spots which 



are remote from the ceil, the first minute, the third twice as long as broad, the 

 fifth washed with ochreous, a sixth, luniform, spot vestigial. 



?-f. mijrtis. — Forewing above; a transverse apical cell-patch and a row of 

 discal patches white, but very much shaded with blackish brown and very difl'nse, 

 the posterior patches being just vestigial in the second specimen, which a little 



approaches the preceding ?-form. The white area of the hindwing a little 



larger than in ¥ -f. melia, the cell-spot especially being larger, there also being a 

 spot below the second median vein ; the first three orange-red submarginal spots 

 vestigial or absent. 



Underside : the patciies of the forewing white, the cell-patch narrow, the three 

 posterior discal patches in one of the two specimens shaded with browu and the 



last two small and vestigial. Hindwing : the second to sixth submarginal spots 



at least three times as long as broad, narrow, less than half as broad as their 

 distance from the edge of the wing. 



Hab. Suer, Mefor I., Geelvink Bay, May and .June 1897 (W. Doherty). 



8 c? cf and 3 ¥ ? . 



•57. Papilio ambrax artanus subsp. nov. 



S. Forewing above with slight narrow grey streak in the apical area. Band 

 of hindwing narrower in the centre than in specimens of ambrax from Dutch 

 New Guinea. 



¥. Forewing with white area as in P. a. ambracia Wall. (1865) from Waigin. 

 First white discal spot of the hindwing obliquely transverse, triangular or 

 trapeziform, being smaller than in ambracia. 



Hab. Suer, Blefor I., Geelvink Bay, May and June 1897 (W. Doherty). 



A series. 



38. Papilio dialis cataleucas subsp, nov. 



(?. Smaller than P. d. dialts Leech (1893) and /'. d. doddsi Janet (1896). 

 Forewing with a narrow cottony streak on the two median veins and a vestigial 

 streak on the subaiedian fold ; under.side more extended and purer whitish grey 



than even in P. d. diali-i. Hindwing with the tail short and triangular (type), 



or longer and spatnlate. 



llab. Five-Finger Mts., Hainan (.J. Whitehead). 



2 cJcJ. 



39. Papilio arjuua battacorum subsp. nov. 

 S ¥. Tliose portions of the blue pat('h of the hindwing which arc placed before 

 the subcostal vein and behind the lower median one are more reduced than in 

 P. arju7M gedeensis, the patch therefore appearing less band-like. The submarginal 



