( 300 ) 



h:ise of tlie fifth subcostal iiervule ; in others it stands farther from the cell, its inner 

 edge being almost on a level with the origin of the fifth subcostal vein. The fertude 

 has a complete series of subniarginal spots to the underside of the hindwings; the 

 raale has no subniarginal spots, or only one. 

 Hab. New Ireland (2 <?, 2 ?). 



82. Papilio websteri <irose Smith [(?,?]. 



(J. Papilio ormeiius, Pagenstecher («<c Gui^rin, 1829), Jahih. Xanx. Vei: Xal. p. 70. u. 4 (1894) 



{this species acrnrffinff fn the specimen examined hi/ us), 

 (^. Papilio icebsleii Grose Smith, Ann. May. X. //. (6). XHI. p. 496 (cJ,kcc ?) (1894) (New 



Britain) : id. it Kirby, Rhnp. Exot. II. Pap. p. 37. t. xv. f. 1 (1895) (cJ, nee ? ). 



(J. Differs from P. oritfts especialh' in the band of the forewings being more 

 curved and consisting of much smaller s[)ots, and in the hindwings below having a 

 more or less complete series of orange, submarginal markings. 



The white discal patch of the hindwings above extends sometimes almost to the 

 base of the lower median nervulc; in other e.xamiiles it reaches just to the origin of 

 the second median vein. 



? . The female described and figured by Jlr. Grose Smith does not belong to 

 this species, but to a local form of P. wmenus Guer. The true female of P. wehsten 

 is similar to the viale (as in all the allied species), but browner. The patch of the 

 hindwings is more restricted, and there is, besides an anal orange-red spot, a sub- 

 marginal spot of the same colour between tlie lower median uervules. Below, the 

 hindwings have a series of six discal white patches, of which the fii'st is lunate and 

 stands behind the subcostal vein midway between outer margin and cell, the second 

 and fourth are about twice as long as broad, the fifth is smaller, the sixth consists of 

 dispersed scales, the third is the largest, being almost thrice as long as broad; the 

 third patch stands about 4 mm. from the end of the cell. The submarginal spots are 

 larger than in the male. 



Hah. New Britain (10 J, 1 ¥). 



Note. — The sexes of P. erskinei, laarch'W8,ptolych%is, woodfwdi, oritae, websten, 

 are, as in all other .species of Papilio, distinguishable from one another by some 

 differences in scaling. The scales of the whit<' markings of the forewings above 

 are much longer and narrower in the male, and have less teeth at the apex, and 

 the scales of the upper layer in the black portion of the outer half of the upper 

 surface of the forewings are also longer in the male, at least partly, and assume often 

 a hairlike character. — K. J. 



83. Papilio erskinei Mathew [J]. 



Papilio erskinei Mathew, /'. Z. S. p. 348. t. 34. f. 1 (cj) (1886) (Ugi I., Solomon Is.). 



One specimen only is knowii. It differs from the other .species with the l)an(l 

 of the hindwings not extending along the costal margin towards the base in the fore- 

 wings being marked almost exactly as in P. hecataeus (rodm. it Salv., which is one 

 of the sexually dimorphic species of the Solomon Islands. 



Hab. Solomon Islands: L'gi Island (in coll. Godman it Salvin). 



8-1. Papilio laarchus Godm. & Salv. [cJ,?]. 



Papilio laarchus Godman iV: Salvin, Ann. Mag. X. IJ. (6). I. p. 214 (?) (1888) (Rnbiana I.) 

 Grose Smith & Kirby, Jihop. Exol. I. Pap. p. 17. t. 8. f. 1. 2 (J) (1889). 



