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consideration of the thick scinb and the oidy slight movements of these animals, 

 which pass the iieat of the day hidden away in the bushes, is always a stroke of luck— 

 the real hard work liegins, viz. the conveyance of tlie heast. Because they are very 

 obstinate and will not walk of their own accord, each has to be carried tied to a 

 ladder-like structure, and upside-down, often for hours, by four men o\er the sharp 

 corals and through the dense bush, and the bearers inevitalily reach the lagune with 

 their clothes torn to rags and their feet all bleeding. Of these seven tortoises six 

 reached Europe alive. The two smallest are in P'rankfort, and the four others are in 

 Hamburg." Tiie latter will shortly be deposited in the Zoological Gardens in London. 



NEW LEPIDOPTEEA. 

 liv THE ilON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. 



1- Troides haliphron pistor Rothseh. subsp. nov. 



S. Very similar to 7\ luliphroit pallens (Oberth.), but differs in the abdomen 

 being less edged with yellow beneath, and in the first discal yellow mark on the 

 hindwing being usually smaller. 



?. Most specimens as pale as pcdhnts, some darker; dift'ers chiefly in the 

 abdomen being less edged with yellow underneath, in the discal area of the liiiul- 

 wing being below more yellow, often as yellow as above, in the yellow sjxit in cell 

 being less extended, reaching only as far as origin of subcostal nervule, in the first 

 discal yellow mark being larger, and in the whitish mark behind the cell being less 

 extended down towards base. 



Hah. Kalao L and Djampea I., between Celebes and Flores; a considerable series 

 of both se.\es (A. Everett, December 18'.»5). 



1 shall give in one of the future numbers of this juurual a mure detailed account 

 of the species of Pitjiilioniiinr obtained by Mr. A. Everett on his recent expeditions. 



~. Papilio adamautius iusulicola Kothsch. snbsp. nov. 



S . Dilfers from 1'. wlamantias Fuld. in the outer margin of the forcwiug being- 

 less concave, the wing shorter, the green scaling iu the apical region much more 

 restricted in the direction of the nervnles, remaining 3 mm. short of the origin 

 of the fourth subcostal vein, :ind in the blue basal area of both wings being more 

 extended. 



The outer edge of the blue region on the forewing crosses the median nervure 

 close to the origin of the second median branch; at the submediau nervure the bine 

 area is extended close to the inner edge of the large cottony scent-organ. 



On the hindwing the blue scaling reaches as far as the tip of the cell, oc(U]iying 

 also the base of the cellule between veins '.\ and 4 for a length of about (i mm. 



There are three cottony stripes on the Ibrewing, situate upon the two lower 

 median branches and upon the submediau fold respectively; they are very large 

 and merged together to one [latch, which extends a little beyond the submediau 

 vein. 



