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4. Papilio sarpedon dodingensis subsp. nov. 



Pajiilio sarpedon antheclni, Nov. Zo.ii.. Isp.j. p. 444 (A) (ixp.). 



(? ? . I have recently received some more specimens of sarpedon from the 

 ^Moluccas, and find now that these islands are inhabited by two forms, one occumng 

 on the southern group of islands (Amboina, Ceram, and the adjacent islets), the other 

 on the northern islands (Halmaheira and Batjan). The characters in pattern which 

 distinguish the northern form from the southern one are in so far highly interesting 

 as we meet with them again in the Celebensian subspecies; sarpedon dodingeiisis 

 from the Northern Moluccas, therefore, being in pattern more closely allied to smpedon 

 rnilo'ii and sarpedon monticohis (]) from Celebes than to sarpedon anthedon from 

 Amboina and Ceram. 



P. soTpedon dodingensis differs from saipedoii anthedon as follows : band on 

 forewing narrower, having behind a breadth of from 5 to 6 mm. instead of 8 mm. ; 

 the band on hindwing also about 2 mm. narrower, which is especially obvious at 

 costal margin and in cell. First submarginal spots on hindwing less arched, almost 

 straight. On underside of hindwing there is, as in milon and monticolus (!), a red 

 spot before cell between veins 6 and 7, which is absent from all the other subspecies 

 of sarpiedon. 



The bands are in the J, not in the ? , more blue than in anthedon. 



Hah. Halmaheira {type) ; Batjan. 



The differences in the genital armature of dodingensis and anthedmi will be 

 explained in another place. 



5. Papilio sarpedon timoixnsis subsp. nov. 



P. sarpedon jxirxeclon, Nov. Zooi.. 1895. p. 442 (f/) {ej:p.). 



6. I am now in possession of Australian specimens of sarpedon which agree 

 with the type of P. saj-pedon parsedon, Tr. Ent. Soc. Land. 1872. p. 99. t. 5. f. 1, and 

 which show that I was wrong in a])i)lying this name to the Timor insect ; jjarsedon 

 is nothing else but a small specimen of choredon killed .shortly after the emergence 

 from the pupae. 



For the Timor subspecies I propose the name of timoremis. It has the bluish 

 green colour of choredon ; the middle band of the forewing is posteriorly not so 

 broad as in choredon, while the four anterior .spots are larger; especially the third 

 .spot is comparatively very large, having a diameter of 4mm. This spot is placed 

 closer to the apex of the cell than in choredon and sarpedon sarpedon. The hind- 

 wing is longer than in chwedon, and the tooth even more prominent than in teredon, 

 Nov. ZooL. 1895. p. 442 (c) ; the baud has at the costa a breadth of 7 mm. On the 

 underside the red costal mark of the hindwing stands closer to the median band 

 than in choredon; the black line separating it from tlie band is thinner than the 

 red mark. 



A Wetter specimen differs from tlie Timor furm in luniiig the median band of 

 both wings broader. On the left Iiindwing this individual has a small blue-green 

 discal spot near the apex of the cell between veins 4 and 5, which reminds one of 

 the discal series of spots present in P. agamemnon and allies. 



Hab. Timor (type) ; Wetter. 



The male genital armature will ho figured and the differences between it and 

 that of choredon pointed out by Dr. K. Jordan in another place. 



