NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. 



Vol. I. DECEMBER, 1894. • No. 5. 



ON SOME NEW LOCAL EACES OF PAPILIO VOLLEN- 

 HOVII Feld. and PAPILIO EIPPONOUS Feld. 



By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. 



MR. WILLIAM DOHERTY discoveml in Timor (November and December, 

 ISUl) a Piipilio which proves to be identical with Felder's Papilio 

 colle/i/zovii (Fddtir, Vcrh.i.b. Ges. Wien,\). 'ilfi, n. 'i%i),\'6^i,nom. nud.; i(/.,Reis. 

 Novara, Lep. I., p. 97, n. 74, t. 10, fig. t", IfS'io). All the siiecimens are tailless, 

 and vary somewhat in the breadth of the white markings ou the wings. In 

 Felder's tyjie-specimen the submargiual creamy lunules of the hindwings stand 

 closer to the margin than in any of my eight Timor examples, and the two jwsterior 

 of them, situated between the median uervules, are joined at the veins to the white 

 marginal spots. Notwithstanding this slight difference, which must be accounted 

 for by individual variation, I do not hesitate to believe that the type of Papilio 

 roUenhorii, which is without locality, came also from Timor. 



Papilio vollenhocii belongs to the Polijtes-gro\\\i ; its nearest allied species are 

 P. hypsicles Hew. from New Caledonia and P. ccuiopus Westw., which is said to be 

 from Melville Islands, North Australia ; all three sjiecies have a complete creamy 

 band on the wings, which is snbmurginal ou the forewings, and discal or subdiscal 

 on the hindwings. In the ludo-Malayau region and the Philippines, P. coUcnItocii . 

 is represented by several species which have partly or entirely lost the band ou the 

 forewings : these species are P. hippoiious Feld. from the Philippine Islands and 

 Palawan, P. jiitinaiini Elwes from Teniisserim, aud P. sakontala Hew. from 

 North India. 



Whereas P. colleithudi is tailless, the otlier species are provided witli tails 

 Now it is very interestiun- that Mr. W. Dohcrtv found several races of P. colleukocii 

 on the islands of Wetter, Alor, and Sambawa respectively, which jiartly exhibit, 

 on the one hand, prolonged though thin tails, and have, on the other hand, the baud 

 to the forewings aud also that to the hindwings more and more reduced, till it 

 is absent, as in one specimen of the Sambawa form. 



On the island of Sangir Doherty found a large race of P. hipjionuiin Feld., 

 so that the area in which a representative of P. (oUeiJtovii is not yet discovereil, and 

 from which a representative can be expected, is restricted to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, 

 and Celebes. 



1. Papilio vollenliovii hypsiclides subsp. nov. 



Ground colour darker brown than in /''. colleiilwcii. 



Band on forewings broader nearer costal margin than in /'. collcithocii, the 

 first spot being (extended fartlier to cell ; very much narrower from middle discuiJti. 



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