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liliick. The cellular white mark is always rather large, extending liehind to the base 

 of t lie lower median nervule, or almost so far; the first diseal spot is much broader 

 than long, and is situated along the second diseocejlular veinlet; the second spot 

 is about as long as broad ; the third has a length of about 3 or 4 mm. ; the fourth 

 reaches from the median nervure to the end of the third spot; the fifth is as long as 

 the fourth. The nervules separating the spots from one another are black. 



Head, sides of sterna, last segments, and ventral edges of all the segments of the 

 abdomen, red. 



My Buru si^iecimen (?) is rather small; the submarginal spots to the hindwings 

 above are rather distinct, and the diseal white spots to the same wings are exteriorlv 

 somewhat clouded with black. 



Hill). Amboina (3 cj, 4 $); Ceram (1 ^, 1 ?;; Burn (W. Doherty lee/. : 1 ?); 

 Batjan (?) ; Ternate (?). 



In the Felderian collection are two specimens of this race from Ternate and 

 Batjan ; I doubt the correctness of the locality, but must say that Mr. Philip Crowley's 

 collection contains also red-headed " Batjan " specimens. 



(b): P. polydorus thessalia (Swinh.) [J,?]. 



Piijiiliii /mlt/doriia local form n, Wallace, Ti: Linn. Soc. Lmul. XXV. p. 42. sub n. 24 (1805) (Key & 



Aru Is.). 

 PajiHiij jioli/donis, Oberthiir, Ann. Mns. Cir. Genom XV. p. 472. n. 10 (1880) (;).;).) ; Ribbe, /ivs I. 



p. 78. n. 2 (ISSC) (Aru Is.) ; Rober, TijcUehr. v. Ent. XXXIV. p. 272 (1891) (Key Is.). 

 PiipiUo leoilamas, Ribbe («fi- Wallace, 1865), I.e. p. 78. n. S (188G) { Aru Is.). 

 cJ. Mniehiiihs tJnsmVu .Swinhoe, Aim. Mag. N. If. (6). XII. p. 258 (1893) (Key Is.: ■' ? " e.r eirore, 



ace. to tyi)e-sj>ec.). 



Colonel Swinhoe compares this " species" with P. polyphonti's Boisd. in.stead of 

 with P. jjolydwus L., of which it is a geographical race, and which Colonel Swinhoe 

 evidently does not know. The type-specimen, in the British Museum, is a mule, not 

 ajemaie, as Colonel Swinhoe .says. 



Differs from typical polydorus especially in the form of the white patch to the 

 hindwings. The cellular spot is much reduced, often pointlike or even absent from 

 the upperside; the first diseal mark is, above, about four times as long (in the 

 direction of the nervules) as broad, or reduced to a point, or absent ; tlie second spot 

 has a length of from 5 to 6 mm. ; the third is of the length of the fourth, and reaches 

 therefore farther on the disc than the latter; their length varies from 7 to 9 mm.; 

 the posterior spot is smaller than in polydortis, often triangular. The second and 

 third median nervules are nio.stly red within the white patch. 



Huh. Key Islands {\ S , \ ?); Aru Islands (1 S, 1 ;). 



(c) : P. polydorus tenimberensis subsp. nov. [(?,$]. 



Front of the head red, but the red hairs are so densely mixed with black ones 

 that the head appears to be more black than red. 



Upperside deeper black than in polydorus. 



The white patch on the forewings beyond the cell purer white than in the two 

 preceding subspecies. Hindwings a little shorter than in polydorm ; the sul> 

 marginal spots .stand, as in t/iessalla, rather closer to the margin than in the typical 

 race. The white patch resembles, in the length of the second, third, and fourth spots, 

 that of thessalia. The cellular spot is larger than in thes,wiia, almost as large as in 

 polydorus ; the first diseal mark is of even breadth (2 mm.) and has a length of from 



