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being all indicated at least bv a hrown scaling, and in the fust discal sjwt l)eing 

 longer and narrower. In these characters, the Waigen individnals agree better with 

 the Halmaheran race of pobjdoriia than with the above-described New Gninea form. 

 The close relationship of the Waigeu polydorus with those from German New 

 Guinea renders it impossible for me to treat the \Vaigeu and German New Guinea 

 specimens as a subspecies distinct from godartianus, which occupies the interjacent 

 country, and I think that the differences of the forms present themselves to us at 

 present thus, as explained above, because om- knowledge of the fauna of those 

 districts is still very insufficient. To draw, however, the attention of the explorers 

 to the present question, I propose to call the form from German New Guinea 

 (type from Stephansort) — 



(r(^) : ab. plagiatus ab. no\-. 



from the i.sland of Fergusson, D'Entrecasteaux group, "SU. A. S. Meek sent 

 a large number of specimens, which are all more or lessditTerent from either plafiUUiis 

 or typical godartiamis, and agree fairly well with the Waigeu polydorus, all of 

 them having a white patch on the forewings, at least on the underside, the first discal 

 ■white spot of the hindwings elongate (sometimes obliterated), and the submarginal 

 red spots all indicated on the upperside, as in Waigeu specimens. As Mr. A. S. Meek 

 will e.xplore some more of the islands lying east of New^ (xuinea in the course of this 

 year, it is best to treat this Fergusson polydm'vn for the present as f/odartianus 

 ab. placjiatvM. 



Hah. Salvatty (1 ?); Mysol ; Waigeu (2 c?, 4 ?); N.W. Peninsula of New 

 Guinea (8 J, 7 ?); Humboldt Bay and German New Guinea (11 i, 14 ?); Fergusson 

 Island (a long series). 



Note. — The Fergusson specimens are somewhat different in scaling from the New 

 Guinea and Waigeu examples; the white scales, for example, between the lower 

 median veins on the underside of the forewings have much longer and sharper teeth 

 than in typical godartianus, ab. plagiatiis, polydorus, etc. In all races, the upper 

 scales are bi-, the under scales tridentate on both sides of the forewings. In some 

 specimens from German New Guinea there appear a few red hairs behind the eyes. — 

 K. .1. 



(g) : p. polydorus novobritannicus sulis].. nov. [cr,?,pupa]. 



/'■'/i^lhi /inhjdm-iis (>.), Godman & Salvin (mr LiniK', 170:!), /'. Z .S. p. I V.\ n. :!7 (IM77) (Duki' cif 

 York I.) : id., I.r. p. IGO. n. 46 (1879) (New Ireland). 



Head and thorax black, but the front of the head, and the sides of pronotum 

 and of uiesosternum, clothed with more or less obvious red hairs, besides the lilack 

 ones. Abdomen mucli more extended red than in godartianiis. 



Forewvtigs : the white stripes well marked, also those in the ant ciioi- region oi 

 the disc, which in all the other subspecies are rather obscure. The black inter- 

 nervular .streaks prominent; that between the lower median veins abbri'viated, tli(> 

 following one very short. 



The submarginal spots to the hindwings are all visible above; the anterior one, 

 standing behind the costa, is \'isibly red; the po.sterior ones are also red, but more 

 shaded with black than in godartianus. The cellular white spot is large, reaching 

 anteriorly at least as far as the origin of the first discoidal nervule ; the discal 

 markings are short, but broad, the nervidcs not bi'ing heavily black; the first is 

 more or less trapezi'-forni, often broader than long, and olilii|ue ; its Icngt h \aries from 



