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P.fuscus beccarii Oberth. and P. fiiscus capaneiis Westw. ; in one of my specimens 

 it extends only as far as the upper median nervule ; the patcli enters the cell or does 

 not touch it; sometimes the nervules traversing it are rather broadly black; thus 

 the patch consists in an Amboina sjjecimen in my collection of five spots, of which the 

 first and the two last are small, the second and third large. Heyond the discal 

 white patch stands often a rather well-marked series of blue, or bluish grey, or 

 huffish, or whitish lunules. Many examjiles have an anal orange-red spot, some a 

 iiioi'e or less complete series of submarginal orange sjiots. On the underside, tlie 

 hindwings exhibit a great variation in the number and size of the discal white 

 markings, as well as in the development of the discal blue and the submarginal 

 orange-yellow spots. A Ternate specimen has only the three anterior white spots 

 indicated by a number of white scales, a little more so than certain examples of 

 /'. albinus thomsani Bull. : the other white spots are absent. The submarginal spots 

 are sometimes of a pale buff colour ; in most specimens they are rather large, but not 

 seldom they are as feeble as in P. fus<yn8 indicatus Butl. The interspaces between 

 the submarginal and the blue subdiscal spots are in one female tinged with reddish 

 ferruginous. The tails are often uon-spatulate ; in a 'nude from Amboina they 

 are rather short ; (Jberthiir (^.c.) records a specimen from Teniate as having short, 

 non-spatulate tails. 



The specimens fi-om the Northern Moluccas are apparently on an average 

 smaller than those fiom the Southern Moluccas, and have mostly the white area of 

 the upperside of the hindwings relatively rather shorter and broader; their hind- 

 wings are also generally somewhat shorter. 



Hah. Amboina (W. Doherty, February 1892) (10 S, S ¥); Buru ; Saparua 

 (1 J, 1 ?); Ceram (8 c?. 3 ?); Batjan (W. Doherty, :\Iarch 1892) (3 J, 2 ?); Ternate 

 (W. Doherty) (2 J); Halmahera (W. Doherty, August 1892) (o S,A ?). 



(h) : P. fuscus castaneus (ioeze [cJ,?]. 



Seba, Thes. IV. p. 65. t. 46. f. 7. 8 {I'tUb). 



Papilio EqiKS Achivus castaneus Goeze, Ent. Bei/tr. 111. 1. p. 88. n. 75 (1771)) (li/jn : Seba's figure on 



t. 45). 

 Pojiiliii Eques Triijanits wverus, Esper, Ausl. Schm. p. 125 (" J ," iiec " (J "). t. ;^I. f. 2 (1785-98). 

 Pajiilid sererus, Boisduval, Sjier. Gin. Lep. I. p. 212. n. 26 (1836) (p.p.) : Doubl. Westw. A: Hew., 



Geii. Dium. Lep. I. p. 11. n. 59 (1846) (p.p.) ; Gray. Cal. Lep. /h.«. «. .1/. I. p. 19. n. 79 (1852) 



(2>.p.) : Feld., Verh. z. h. Ges. Wien p. 319. p. 403 (1864) (p.p.) : Pagenst., ./alirh. Xass. Ver. 



yal. p. 202 (1884) (p.p.) : Westw., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lmd. p. 468. n. 3 (1888) (N. Celebes). 

 i J. Papilio pertinax Wallace, Tr. Linn. Soc. Lund. XX\. p. 49. n. 53. t. 5. f. 4 (J) (1865) 



(Celebes) ; Oberth., Et. cFEnt. IV. p. 40. n. 74 (1879) (Celebes : '• Ternate" he. err.) ; Ribbe, 



Jris II. p. 209. sub n. 5 (1890) (distinct species). 

 Piipilio castaneus, Kirby, Cat. Diwn. Lep. p. 810. n. 180 (1877). 



(J ? . Papilio severiis \3.t. pertinax, Snellen, Tijdschr. v. Ent. XXII. p. 61 (1879) (Celebes). 

 Pdpdio serirus var. minor Oberthiir, Et. d'Ent. IV. p. 46. sub n. 75 (1879) (Sangir I.). 



Large specimens have the costal margin of the forewings more arched than 

 P. fuacv^ Goeze. A feeble buff subdiscal band is mostly present on the forewings 

 posteriorly, above and below; it is not marked anteriorly as in P.fn.scu«. The white 

 discal area of the hindwings is smaller than in fuscus, especially narrower ; the tails 

 are broad and spatulate ; sometimes there is a minute orange anal spot above. On 

 the under.^ide of the hindwings the posterior spots of the discal row are small and 

 mostly orange, often obliterated. 



Hub. Celebes (W. Doherty, August to September 1891) (ocj.l S); Sulla Islands 

 (1 t?, 1 ?); Sangir Island (W.'Doherty) (4 6, 3 ?). 



