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Oberthilr's P. severus var. minor is based on small specimens from Saiigir ; 

 my specimens from that island are larger than, or as large as, my Celebesian 

 examples, and do not difJer from them subspecifically. In two of the Sangir and 

 one of the Sulla specimens the white patch on the hindwings is larger than in typical 

 castaneus. The tails of my Sulla si)ecimens are a little longer and at the base 

 thinner than in the Celebesian ones. 



(c) : P. fuscus rotalita (Swinh.j [cJ, S ]. 



(?) PajiiUn xereriis, Wallace (mr Cramer, 1782), Ti: Linn. Sue. Lmiil. XXV. p. 4','. n. 52 (1865) 



{p.p.). 

 PapiVio indiaitiig, Semper (««■ Butler, ISTtJ), Juurn. Mux. Gmhjl'nii/. Heft 14. p. 42. sub n. l.'Jl 



(1878) (Aru Is.) ; Janson, Crinse of .U„rrl,rs,r II. p. .-i7G. n. 80 (1880) (Aru Is,). 

 PnpiUo licccarii, Ribbe (nee Oberthur, 1879), Iris I, p. 78. n. 4 (188G) (Aru Is., rare): Ruber, 



Tijchchr. r. Ent. XXXIV. p. 273 (ISill) (Key Is.). 

 tJ. Charus rotfiUfa Swinhoe, Ami. Mar/. -V. M. (G). XII. p. 257 (1893) (Key Is.). 

 cJ ?. Papilio sepfimius Staudinger, Iri^ VII, p. 345 (1895) (Aru Is,), 



I have compared fom' specimens of this sub.species, including the types of 

 P. rotalita (Swinhoe) and P. septmiius St^uding., and must say that there is next 

 to nothing to distinguish this race from P. fuscus indicatiis Butl, and from P. fuscun 

 cajjaneus Westw. The band of the forewings is reduced to some spots in the apical 

 region, as in many indicatus and some capaneus ; the band of the hindwings above 

 is naiTow, consisting of three larger spots between the subcostal and upper median 

 uervule, a lunate spot at the costal margin, and another small lunate spot behind 

 the upper median nervule ; between the second median vein and the abdominal 

 margin there are sometimes some white scales, indicating the spots standing there in 

 most examples of capaneus; the three large spots are rounded exteriorly, as is the 

 posterior of them in capaneus, while the two anterior ones are cut off obliquely in 

 capaneus; below there are three or four white markings on the disc between the 

 costal margin and the upper median nervule, the first and last are minute. 



Hab. Key and Aru Islands. 



(<0 : P. fuscus beccarii Oberth, [c?,?], 



Papilio Herern.s, Boisduval (mr Cramer, 17«2), .S/„.,-. Gen. Up. I. p. 212. n. 2G (183G) (/i.p.) : 



Doubl. Westw. & Hew., (reu. Dium. Lep. I. p. 11. n. 59 (1846) {p.p.) : Vollenhov., Tijdsthr. r. 



Ent. III. p. 74. n. 29 (1860) (p.p.) ; Feld,, Verh. z. I,. Oes. Wien p. 319. n. 403 (1864) (p.p.). 

 cJ ? . Papilio heecarii Oberthur, Et. d'Eul. IV. p. 46. n. 76 (1879) (Dorey ; nvm. mill.) ; id., .iim. 



Mus. Cir. Gemn-a XV. p. 475. n. 21. t. 3. f. 1 ((J). 2 ( ? ) (1880) (Waigeu ; Audai). 

 (?). (J ? . Papilin severuK (?), Moutrouzier, Ann. Sc. Phi/n. Xal. Linn. p. 397 (1856) (Woodlark I.) ; 



id., Essay Faune Woodl. p. 119 (1857). 



This form has the wings shaped as smaller examples of /'. fiisru.'i: the fails are, 

 however, thinner at the base. The pale band on the ii]iper>ide of the forewings, 

 which is mo.stly so well defined in P. fuscus capaneus'SW'Mv;., is alwent from /»«ccnm, 

 or it is indicated near the costal margin by some white spots which ,st;nid, as in 

 P. fuscus rotalita (Swinhoe), farther from the end of the cell than in P. fuscus : in 

 many specimens the band is also marked in the anal region. On the underside the 

 band is sornetimes as well defined as in P. fuscus capaneus. In some individuals it 

 is, however, reduced to about three spots, standing in the anterior region of the wing, 

 as in P. fuscus rotalita (Swinhoe). The w-hite area of the hindwings above is variable 

 in size ; sometimes it touches or even enters the discoidal cell, or it is separated from 

 the cell by an interspace of about 4 mm. Below, the hindwings are similar to those 



