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Honrath's var. selcarensia is ideutical with typical albiiius ; he distinguishes his 

 " var." from P. cdhinus by the absence of a white subapical band from the forewings, 

 and the larger and more numerous white spots on the underside of the hindwings ; 

 jirobably Honrath mistook the following aberration or P. fuscus beccarii Oberth. for 

 typical P. (ilbinus Wall. 



(a-) : ab. lesclies (lodm. & Sal\'. 



Pajiilw lesches Godman & Salvin, P. Z. S. p. (!14 (1880) (N. of Pt. Moreby, N. Guinea) ; Salviu, 

 Ent. ilu. Ma;i. XSIV. p. 275 (1888) (P. h'iculor Kirby = P. 1,-scliex Godm. & 8alv.). 



Paj)iliu hicohn- Kirby, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5). XIX. p. 3G1 (1887) (N. Guine.a) ; id. & Gmse Smitb, 

 Rhop. Ex. I. Pai,. p. 7. t. 3. f. 3 (cJ). 4 ( ? ) (1888). 



Forewing.s with a subapical white band above and below. 



If this form, which I have seen only from Southern New Guinea, is confined 

 to that district, and if P. albinus is a distinct species, P. lesehes ought to stand as 

 a subspecies and not as an aberration. 



(6^): ab. leucojjhanes Grose Smith. 

 (J. Pap'dhi huniji/iain s Grose Smith, ,Vf<c. Zcul. p. 584. n. 8a (18114) (Humboldt Bay, New Guinea). 

 Hindwings below with two white discal spots only. 



Hab. New Guinea: Humboldt Bay (W. Doherty, September to October 1892j 

 (3 (5, 2 ¥); Sekar, Amberbaki, Dorey, etc. ; Twiorage (Meyer, !May 1873) (1 6); 

 Pt. jMoresby, Kedscar Bay (British New Guinea) (1 cJ, ab. leaches). 



(b): P. albinus thomsoni Butl. [cJ,?]. 



J. Pajjilin tliumsnni Butler, .I«h. .lAwy. X H. (5). XIU. p. 197. D. 46 (1884) (Key Dulan). 

 J ¥ . PapiUv lawjeni Druce, Ann. Mag. X. JI. (G). II. p. 234 (1888) (Key Is.). 

 iS ¥ . Papilio beccarii, Rbber, Tijdscln: i: Ent. XXXIV. p. 273 (1891) Key Is.) {Iiaec spec. ■( id 

 P. fuscus rotalita Swiuhoe ?). 



Differs from P. albinus Wall, in the total, or almost total, absence of white 

 discal markings from the underside of the hindwings ; in two of my three specimens 

 there are a number of white scales in the places where in P. albinus the three 

 anterior white spots stand; this fact, together with the hindwings of P. albimi^ ab. 

 leucophanes Gr. Smith being bimaculate with white below, proves that tlioiusoni k 

 not specifically different from albiaim. 



The white discal area of the upper surface of the hindwings is rather variable in 

 breadth; sometimes it does not extend into the cell as far as to the origin of the 

 upper median nervule, in other individuals it reaches to the origin of the second 

 median nervule. My female has on the hindwings above, besides the spot at the 

 anal angle, three submarginal orange limules ; in the male there is no orange spot 

 marked on the upperside, or only the anal one. 



Hab. Key Islands (2 ,^, 1 ?). 



VIII. ORITAS-GROUP. 

 Both sexes similar, tailless. 



81. Papilio oritas Godm. i^ Salv. [c?,?]. 

 Pnpilin nrihis Godman & Salvin, P. Z. S. p. C54 (1879) (N. Ireland). 



The po.sition of the straight subapical band of the forewings is not always the 

 same; in most specimens the band is situated between the apex of the cell and the 



