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The bine area of the hindwiug is more reduced than in any other form : the 

 bine scales are sparse near the edge of the area. Midway betweeu veins 2 and 3 

 the bine scaling has an extent of only 1 1 mm. ; the preceding patches are con- 

 siderably smaller, the black colour at veins 4 and 5 being only 3 to 4 mm. distant 

 from cell. 



Undermle similar to that of ub/ssea ulysses ; but forewing with a faint patch 

 of grey scales in cell, and the grey scaling on disc of hindwing much sparser ; the 

 submargiual spots of hindwing deeper ocliraceons, the upper one less rounded, the 

 black outer border being posteriorly more developed, but not so much as in 

 autobjcns ; the patch behind vein 4 subtriaugular. 



? . Resembles in the extent of the bine area ulysses melanotica Hagen from 

 Dumpier Island, but the blue area is more purplish, the snbmarginal spots of the 

 hindwing above are heavier, the two spots between veins 2 and 4 having the shape 

 of hirge angles. On underside the snbmarginal spots of hindwing are much more 

 bright ochraceous than in melanotica, the last but two subtriaugular as in <?, the 

 first much broader than in melanotica. 



Uab. St. Gabriel, Admiralty Islands, February 1897 (Captain H. C. Webster) ; 

 type: i. A series of (?c?,one ?. 



6. Papilio codrus auratus subsp. nov. 



?. Wings shaped as in cod run codrus. Band on upperside chrome-yellow 

 (Ridgway, Somencl. of Colours), shaped as in codrus medon from New Guinea, 

 but the two posterior spots smaller ; the patch between veins 1 and 2 shorter 

 iu a basi-distal direction than the patch before it. The grey scaling on the hind- 

 wing stops about 5 mm. short of the apex of the cell, bat extends in abdominal 

 region to near the tip of vein 1. On underside the band is shaped as above, but 

 covered with thin white scales. The white costal patch on liindwing is narrow and 

 short, not reaching vein 7, and stands 14 mm. from the tip of vein 8. 



Hub. St. Gabriel, Admiralty Islands, February 1897 (Captain H. C. Webster) ; 

 2 ? ?. 



NYMPHALIDAE. 

 7. Cethosia gabrielis sj). uov. 



tj ? . Resembles ohscura Guer., uf which it is a representative. Upperside, 

 white spots of forewing small, nearly all rounded, the upper one sometimes sub- 

 triangular, diameter 1^ to 2 mm.; spots on liindwing more than twice as large as 

 those on forewing, ovate, all of nearly equal size, except the last, which is wider 

 and incised iu middle (being composed of two sjiots merged together), farther from 

 outer margin than in ohscura. Costal region of hindwiug without reddish orange 

 patches in $. 



Underside much deeper in colour than in oljKcnnt, blue-black. The white spots of 

 the forewing often more arrowliead-shaped than above, mostly larger : basal region 

 brighter red ; withont indication of red spots between apex of cell and postdiscal 

 series of white spots, bnt with some grey spots, which are larger than in ohscura. 

 Hindwing with the red colour reduced in c? to a spot in cell, another in front of 

 it, and a third, often obsolete, spot behind cell; ? without red markings; black 

 bars of ohscura here indicated in consequence of the bluish grey border of the bars 

 being clearly marked. Besides the postdiscal series of white spots, which are slightly 

 larger than above, but of the same shape, seldom concave outwardly, obviously 



