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Mesothorax almost iiupmictate, with a unmlier of fine long- pitchy hairs ou the 

 lower surface. 



Long. Corp. 20 — 22 mm. 



Hub. S.W. Madagascar. 



Type ill tlie Triog Blnseum. 



Mons. Kuukel D'Hercnlais figures an .\cfinoplioni--i m Grandiilier's lli.<t. _\'rit. 

 (h ^fitdiiijaaciAr (ttol.), Vol. II. Pt. I. PI. IT. f. 1, wliich he calls AtenrliKs rdilinun. 

 The aliove insect, however, differs from the poorly e.xecnted figure of D'Hercnlais 

 in having four teeth on the exterior margin of the anterior tibiae and is of a much 

 greener hue. As a large number of the Coprophugn figured in the above work 

 are quite unrecognisable, I think it would be far more convenient and cause less 

 confusion if D'Hercnlais" names were dropped altogether. 



ON SOME NEW SUBSPECIES OF PAPILIO. 

 By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. 



1. Papilio alcinous loochooauus subsp. nov. 



c?. This form combines in colour and structure the characters of the Japanese 

 alcinous alcinous Klug and the Chinese alcinous confusus Rothsch. The front of the 

 head is clothed with red and black hairs as in confusus; the snbmarginal spots to the 

 underside of the hindwing are shaped as in ulci-nous, those between the discoidal and 

 median veins being less arched than in the Chinese form. The colour of the spots 

 varies from bright red to pale pink ; sometimes the spots are marked on the upper- 

 side. The harpe (see Nov. Zool. 1805. t. VI.) agrees with that of the Japanese 

 form. 



Hab. Okinawa, Loo Choo Islands. 



2. Papilio coon palembanganus snbsp. uov. 



S. Uppr/side : the subcostal and discocelhilar veins of the hindwing a little 

 more broadly black than in conn coon F., the two white spots near the apex of the 

 cell between veins 3 and 5 absent ; two snbmarginal spots only marked, one 

 between veins 5 and 6, ovate, sitnated nearly 4 mm. from the margin ; the 

 other between veins 4 and 5, lunate, ii mm. from the margin of the wing ; 

 the first and two last submargiual spots oi' coon coon are absent ; the marginal sjiots 

 at the end of veins 2 and 3 yellow as in coon coon, somewhat smaller. 



Underside: all the spots of the Javan coon present iu the Sumatran form: the 

 discal spot between veins 4 and 5 is minute ; the first and two last white sub- 

 marginal spots are smaller than in coon coon, the last joined to the marginal spot 

 by means of a thin line. 



Hub. Upper Musi Kiver, Palembang district, Sumatra; 1U3' E. Long., 3' S. I.at. 



