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c?. My male of titkonns titlionus and my two Waigen S S dill'er as follows : The 

 yellow-greea patch between veins 3 and 4 of forewings is smaller and more 

 triangnlar iii the new form, while it is sqnare in the typical titkonns lithonm. 

 On the hindwings the yellow patch within the cell is narrower and has a straight 

 inner margin in the New Guinea specimen, while in titkonns toaigeuensis it 

 is broader and the inner margin is angnlate. De Haau's figure of the type of 

 titkonns titkonns is somewhat intermediate. 



cTroides titkonns titkonns, S.W. New Guinea: Kapanr, W. Dohcrty, 



Ilab.l December 1896. 



I Troides titkonns waigeuemis, Waigen Island. 



Descriptions founded on 2 (J c? and 4 ? ? of T. titkonns waigeuensis and 1 S and 

 2 ? ? of r. titkonns titkonns. 



2. Troides paradiseus fiavescens suLsp. nov. 



? . Differs from T. paradisens puradisens chiefly in the much yellower colour of 

 the light area of the hindwings both above and below. The praecostal cell on 

 underside of hindwings is powdered with yellow, not white or yellowish white, scales. 

 The yellow of the abdomen is deeper in tint, and beueatli much more extended ; the 

 femora are streaked with yellow, not white. The third subcostsd vein arises H mm. 

 before apex of cell, thus distantly approaching T. supremns Rober, the female of 

 which is unknown. 



Uab. Etna Bay, Dutch New Guinea (H. C. Webster, August 8th, 1896) ; 1 ?. 



I at first suspected this specimen to be the female of T. supremus on account 

 of the position of the third subcostal branch be/ore the apex of the cell ; but as 

 among the ^'^e females of paradiseus from German New Guinea which are now in 

 my collection there is one in which that vein stands just a little before the apex of 

 the cell, and a second in which the distance amounts to lA mm., the position of 

 the third subcostal branch does not speak against the present form being a race 

 oi paradiseus. 



3. Troides paradiseus meridionalis subsji. nov. 



? . The markings on the disc of both wings purer white, being less dusted over 

 with black scales than in paradiseus paradiseus. The patch in the cell of forewing 

 is nearly straight at the basal side, its basal edge being very feebly dentate, while 

 at the apical side it bears one deep triangular notch ; it measures 12 mm. at its 

 widest part. There are three discal patches : the nj)2)ermost stands between veins 

 3 and 4 and measures 15 mm. in length and 6 in breadth, while in paradiseus 

 paradiseus this spot is small and ill-defined; the second jiatcli has a ler ,th of 

 13 mm. and a breadth of 5i mm. ; the third mark is very small and linear, its 

 dimensions being 6 and 1^ mm. 



The light area of the hindwiug is much extended, stopping at the median 

 nervnre 14 mm. short of the base, the apex of the cell bearing a large white patch 

 which is oblifjuely cut off and has (in the centre of the cell) a length of 6 mm. The 

 portion of the light area outside the discal black spots is brighter yellow than in 

 paradi.^ieus paradiseus, and so is the npperside of the abdomen. 



Femora black, without white or yellow streaks. 



I lab. JIailu district, British New Guinea, July 1895 (Anthony) ; 1 ?. 



