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white. Hindwiug: no basal and snlibasal bars; snbmedian bars forming a con- 



tinnons, mostly slightly curved, line from costal margin to median nervure or 

 be\-ond, the line crossing C close to PC, thinner behind, broadly bordered white 

 proximally, this white scaling extending to (>SM'). Median bars forming a second 

 line, parallel to the first, coutinuons (or nearly continuous) from costal margin 

 to R^, then interrupted, the last bar nearly at right angles to SM- continuous with 

 bar (SM') — SM", the triangular space between it and last bar of discal series often 

 whitish (also on upperside). White discal band at outside of median line of bars 

 broadest in front, narrowing behind, varying in width and length. Discal bars 

 continuous from costal margin to il', forming mostly an unbroken, evenly but 

 slightly curved line; bars between R^ and anal angle luniform ; all the bars distally 

 bordered white, the two last ones bordered pale blue: these white lines separate 

 the discal bars from postdiscal heavy spots, of which the last three are always red, 

 large, and half-moon-shaped, spot R^ — M' the largest, the preceding three red or 

 yellow, smaller, the upper one more or less red, all bordered distally with the black 

 jwstdiscal, more or less luniform, bars. Submarginal black spots proximally joined 

 to white ones. Admarginal interspaces yellow; margin black: fringe white between 

 veins. SM- (from base to last discal bar) and SM' black. Sometimes a vestigial 

 bar at end of cell. 



Outer margin of forewing concave, more so in 6 than in ?, slightly convex 

 at the end of the veins. Hindwing with two tails, which are longer in ? than 

 in c?, the upper at R" the longer, the second at M" at least :5i mm. long, all pointed 

 except upper in ? , which is blunt; outer edge dentate at end of veins. 



The larva is known of the subspecies inhabiting Australia; it is green, and has 

 on the segments bearing the first and third pair of abdominal legs a buft-coloured 

 half-moou-shaped transverse baud, which extends laterally to the anterior margin 

 of the segment and ends on a level with the stigma; the band is broadest above, 

 about half as wide as the segment is long, and is thinly edged with brown: the 

 anterior part of the segment in front of the band is dark blue-green. All the 

 abdominal segments have a longitudinal jiale line below the stigma; these lines 

 thinner on the thoracical segments and somewhat obliipe. Head taintly striped. 

 The chrysalis, which is known to us of JC. jii/n-/itis sempronius and ju/nter, is 

 green, with the wing-cases parti-colonred with white. The larva and chrysalis of 

 keianas (see 5f) are described by Kiihn. 



lluh. The range extends from Sumlta, Sambawa, Kalao, over Timor, tjie 

 Moluccas, to the Solomon Islands and New South Wales. 



The geographical forms of li. pi/rrkus are numerous and exhibit partly very 

 cons]]i<;uons distinguishing characters. The species does not seem to be i)lentiful 

 anywhere, though it is by no means a rarity. We know very little about its 

 habits, and what is recorded under xfrn/ironins does not perhaps apply to all 

 forms. 



d\ Body above olivaceous lihick ; alidoineii white beneath in d , black or 

 dark drab-culour in ?. Ha>al area of both wings black above. 



»'i. E. pyrrhus jupiter (Fig. ~2, S). 



Chariixea jupiter Butler, Lfp. Exot. I. p. 14. t. .% f. 4. 7 (1860) (Dorey) ; Godm. & Salv., P. Z. .S. 

 p. 145. D. 20 (1877) (Duke of York) ; Staud., Exot. Sdimelt. p. 173 (1886) (Dorey ; Waigeu) ; 



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