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of P. fuseits capmuiis Westw., and vary just as inucli as in that subsijecies; the 

 rlisoal row of whito patches and luniiles is not always complete in the tj ; the anterior 

 and the three posterior spots are mostly very thin, the latter sometimes obsolete ; 

 the three large markings are in certain individuals more than twice as large as in 

 others. The submarginal orange spots are sometimes partly or all absent in the <J. 



The single character by which this form can apparently always be distinguished 

 from P. fuacas capaneits Westw. and indlcatus Butl. is the ab.sencc or minuteness 

 of the subapical white spots of the upperside of the forewings. 



Ilab. Waigeu (ace. to Oberthiir) ; Dutch New Guinea: Dorey (66 cJ, 34 ?); 

 Humboldt I'.ay (7 (?, 1 ?). 



Montrouzier's P. severus from Woodlark Islaufl comes apparently nearer to 

 P. fmcus xenophilus Mathew and P. fuscus cajxineus Westw. than to the present 

 race, since Montrouzier describes it as having a white band on the forewings, which 

 posteriorlv is obliterated ; the band of the hindwings seems to be of the form of that 

 of capaneiis. 



(e) : P. fuscus indicatus Butl. [(?,?, metam.]. 



Papillo indicalu.'! Butler, Ann. Mag. X. If. (4). XVIII. p. 248. n. 92 (I87C) (Pt. Moresby) : id., 

 P. Z. S. p. 471 (1877) (S. New Guinea) ; Mathew, Tr. Ent. Snc. Lmul. p. 170. t. 4. f. 3. 3a. 

 3b (/., p.) (1878) (Pt. Moresby) ; Grose Smith & Kirby, W>o/>. Kx. I. Pu/k t. :i. f. 1. 2 ( ? ) 

 (1888). 



PajiiUo capanms, Oberthiir, Et. d'Enl. IV. p. 47. n. 77 (18711) (p.p.). 



Differs from the following subspecies in the much smaller anal orange-red spot 

 on the upiierside of the hindwings, and in the very thin orange-red submarginal 

 markings on the underside of those wings. These markings are, however, sometimes 

 also very .small in P. fuscus capaneus, and such specimens of capaneus are scarcely 

 or not distinguishable from P. fuscus indicatus Butl. 



Hah. British New Guinea (5 c?, 3 ?). 



(/) : P. fuscus capaneus Westw. [J,?]. 



PiipiUo rnpnmii.1 Westwood, .1)0. Ent. II. p. 15. t. .52. f. 1. 2 (1843) (Australia) : Doubl. Westw. & 

 Hew.. Gen. Dhmi. Lep. I. p. 11. n. 60 (1841!) : Gray, Cat. Lep. Ins. B. M. I. p. 19. u. 80 

 (1852) : id.. List Lep. Ins. B. M. I. p. 24. n. 84 (ISof.) (Richmond R. * Moreton Bay) ; Feld., 

 Verh. z. b. Ges. Wicn p. 319. n. 402 (18114) (Austral, sept, ot occ.) ; Butl., Ann. Mag. X. 11. 

 (4). XX. p. 125. n. 23 (1877) (Cape York) : Semper, .lonrn. Mus. G'nliffr. Heft 14. p. 42. n. 131 

 (1878) (Bowen ; Pt. Mackay : C. York) ; Oberth., Hi. d'Ent. IV. p. 47. n. 77 (1879) {p.p.) ; 

 id., Ann. Mm. Cir. Gcnom XV. p. 47(;. sub n. 21 (1880) (Australia) : JIatbew, Pmc. Linn. Soc. 

 .V.5. Wales p. 2<)4 (1885) ('I'hursday I.). 



The huffish band of the forewings varies from being comjilcte to being reduced 

 to two or three small sj)Ots behind the costal margin, above and below. The three 

 posterior spots of the median white band on the upperside of the hindwings are 

 mostly thin, sometimes, however, scarcely narrower than in certain examples of 

 P. fuscus xenojjhUus yiaihew ; the two posterior ones are seldom absent. The sub- 

 marginal orange-red spots vary in nunilier from 1 to (i. On the underside tlie white 

 subdiscal 7iiarkings, which have in most .specimens the same position as in P. fuscus 

 roialitn (Swinhoe) and P. fuscus beccarii Oberth., but stand sometimes closer to the 

 cell, nearly as in P. fuscus Goeze, vary in numlicr fVom 7 to 3 ; the series of sub- 

 marginal spots, which are much more yellow t ban above, and even whitish, is complete, 

 though in my c? specimen irom Thursday Island the sixits are j)artly overpowdered 

 with black. 



