( 460 ) 



Wiiiirs (ihorr, olivaceous mnmm3--brown. Forewing densely hairy in l)a8al 



half (if cell, tho hairs directed obliquely backwards ; an indistinct band on disc 

 paler than the gronnd-colonr, parallel to distal margin, slightly augnlate close to 



costal margin ; fringe spotted with white, posterior spots indistinct. Ilindwing : 



R' and M' nearer together than in the other species, D' being less than half the 

 length of D^ and the wing longer posteriorly; vestiges of two ocelli R' — M-; a faint 

 adraarginal double line posteriorly ; distal margin scalloped, with white fringe- 

 spots. 



Underside. Forewing bistre, apex deeper in tint ; a narrow creamy band on 



disc from costal margin beyond M-, elbowed in front ; three small ocelli from R-'' 

 forward, uppermost largest, each consisting of a white central dot encircled by 

 black, ochreous, deep bistre, and violaceous ecru-drab, some chocolate-red scaling 

 near uppermost ocellus ; an e'crn-drab reversedly crenate line from SC to M- 

 followed distally close to margin by a straight ochraceous and tawny line, which 



is broken at the veins. Hindwing olive-black, irrorated, with creamy white 



and chocolate-red scales ; a creamy white band from near iii)ex of costal margin to 

 middle of RM^, irregular, sending out in cell on proximal side a short spur forward 

 and on distal side a spur backward, this latter spur extending along cross-veins, 

 being hook-shaped, just touching a second cream-coloured band, which is narrow, 

 extending from base of W to iSM- ; four rather large black ocelli, encircled with 

 clayish ochraceons and olive, and ])upilled with white, tirst the largest, SC- — R\ the 

 others between R- and M-, vestiges of ocelli C — SC- and R' — R- also present ; the 

 ocelli proximally and distally surrounded by violaceous ecru-drab bars or rings, 

 which are much broken up ; between ocelli and creamy bands tawny and chocolate- 

 red scaling, some reddish scaling also distally of ocelli, esjiecially at apex ; an 

 ochraceous admarginal line contiguous on proximal side with a violaceous ecru-drab 

 line, which is reversedly crenate ; the ecru-drab markings of fore- and hindwing 

 somewhat metallic, their violet tint changing according to light. 



Length of forewing : ^0 mm. 



One cJ. 



PAPILIONIDAE. 

 9. Troides chimaera. 



?. Troiilrs rJihiwrra Rothschild, Xoi: Zn„l. xi. [i. 311. n. 1. t. 3. f. ia (r.l04) (Owgarra). 



The ¥ ? obtained by A. S. Meek on the present expedition agree with tlie 

 one figured. I.e. ; but the white spots on the forewing vary in size (being often 

 smaller than in the specimen figured, or larger), and the spot in the cell of the 

 hindwing is often absent. The yellow belts of the abdomen also vary much in 

 width. 



The S resembles in colour Troide.s f/t/ioiu/.f Deli. (Is40), but is otherwise very 

 different. 



Eye small, with a vestige of a white border behind. Thorax woolly above 

 and below, with red lateral patch beneath. Abdomen woolly beneath, bases of 

 segments black except dorsally ; these black bands are either continuous from side 

 to side on each segment, being narrow on the sternites, or there are separated 

 dorso-lateral jiatches on the tergites and round dots at the stigmata; claspers 

 dorsally and eighth tergite mesially fringed with black. 



AVings, upperside. Forewing: ueuration as in ?, SC at or beyond angle 



of cell, not before that angle as in tithomis, this angle much less obtntc and M" 



