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FUETHEE NOTES ON MY EEVISION OF THE PAPILIOS 

 OF THE EASTEEN HEMISPHEEE, EXCLUSIVE OF 

 AFEICA. 



By the JION. WALTlil! ROTHSCHILD. 



DK. (). STAUDINGEK has sent me a series of very interesting Indo-Australiau 

 Pai)ilios, especially aberrant specimens, out of his rich collection, which 

 enables me to [lublish the following additional notes to my Revision of the Eastern 

 Papilios in Vol. 11. of Novitates Zoo'logkue. I take the opportunity of thanking 

 Dr. Staudinger very much, and hope that he will forgive me that the first note about 

 the specimens is a correction of his " Berichtignng " in Iris VIII. p. 2S:; (189()). 



18 (c). Troides oblongomaculatus celebensis (Wall.) ; Eothseh., I.e. p. 214. 



Staudinger's " Berichtigung," I.e., induces me to comment on my short note 

 about celebensis in order to show to the reader what we really know of this form. 

 I divided Troides oblongoriuteulatns into four sub-species : — 



1. ohlonfjomaeulatus (Goeze) from the .Southern Jloluccas ; 



2. bouruensis (Wall.) from Burn ; 



3. celebensis (Wall.) from S. Celebes and Saleyer; 



4. papiuensis (Wall.) from New Gniuea. 



The nude of celebensis is characterised by Wallace, Tr. Linn. Soc. Lund. XXV. 

 p. 39 (1865), as follows:— 



"c. Local form Uelebensis. — Male: wings a little more pointed than iaO. Helena; 

 yellow patch of lower wings extending nearer to the jjosterior margin, and liouuded 

 towards the abdominal margin by the first branch of the median nervure. Beneath, 

 having the uervm-es between the discoidal cell and the outer border ashy-margiued. 



"Female not known. 



"Hah. :\Iaeassar (Celebes) {Wall.y 



^\'allace's example or examples are apparently lost, and, to om- knowledge, there 

 never came other specimens from Celebes, excejjt a female from North Celebes 

 (Minahassa) in Dr. Staudinger's collection. From the" island of Saleyer, however, 

 a good series of specimens of both sexes has been sent to Dr. Htaudinger by his 

 collector, and of these I have six before me. The Saleyer males have a'l the narrower 

 black outer border, or, as Wallace's expression is, the "yellow patch extending 

 nearer to the posterior margin," and are by this character at once distinguished from 

 all jNIoluccan examples which stand at my disposal. !Most of the Saleyer males, 

 not all, have, moreover, the veins of the hindwings within the yellow area more or 

 less obviouslv bordered with black, a character which is sometimes conspicuousl}- 



