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A NEW SUBSPECIES OE TEOIDES VICTOBIAE. 



By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D. 



Troides victoriae rubianus subsji. nov. 



c?. The snbajjical patch on the uppcrside of the forewing is very much 

 reduced and of the same colour as the basal area. It consists of three or four 

 spots. The uppermost spot SC — SC^ which is long in all the other subspecies, 

 has only a length of 5 mm. ; the second sjiot, situated in the subcostal fork, 

 is triaugnlar and 10 to 12 mm. long ; the tliird spot is irregularly trapeziforni, 

 10 to 12 mm. long in front and about mm. long behind ; the fourth spot, 

 which is present only iu the ^//if-specimen, is rounded and about 3 mm. wide. 



The hiudwing, on the iipperside, is without golden jsubmarginal sjiots ; the 



green area is not washed with golden in the submarginal region, and is more 

 sharply defined, not being quite so far extended towards the distal margin as in 

 the other forms, the black distal border being broader. 



On the iimhrside the golden green submarginal patches of the forewing are more 

 reduced than in the other forms of victoriae, the costal margin of the hindwing 

 is more extended black, and the black admarginal spots are rather larger ; the base 

 of the cell of the forewing is bluish green. 



? . Similar to the subspecies from Guadalcanar. There are three discal spots 

 R3 — (gM') on the upperside of the forewing ; the third spot is triaugnlar, pointing 

 backwards and being very often connected with the subbasal streak situated along 

 SM- ; the last submarginal spot is large ; the discal spots situated distally 

 of the apex of the cell are on the whole larger than in vict. victoriae. The 

 first submarginal spot of the hiudwing, on the upperside, is small, often shaded 

 over with black ; the discal spots R' — SM^ are large, the spot M' — M- usually 

 extending, on the urnlerside, to the submarginal spot either at M- or also at M'. 



Hah. Rcndova, Rubiana Group, Solomon Islands, February 1904 (A. S. Meek). 



Two (? S and a long series of ? 9 . 



The c? is more different from vict. victoriae than are the S6 of the other 

 subspecies. 



