( 308 ) 



This form is known from Waigcii, Aru, K<'\, New (iuiiiea and iuljaccnl islands. 

 and D'Entrecasteaux Islands. 



Hah. Waigeu (6 J, 6 ?); Am (3 c?,3 ?); Key (1 J); New (ruinea (6() S, 01 ?) 

 and adjacent islands; D'Entrecasteaux Islands (many males and females of most of 

 the above enumerated aberiafions). 



(c): P, aegeus adrastus IVld. [c?,?.] 



(?). (J. /'apilio errrhtheiis, Blanchard (»(C fiu<5iiii, 1829), Voy. n« Pole Siitl. IV. p. .S77. t. 1. f. I. U 



(1853) (/>.;..). 

 Pajiilio erer.theus var. b, Gray, Cal. Lep. his. H. .1/. I. p. ii. sub n. 99 (18.")2). 

 (J. PapiUn adrnslus Felder, Vrrli. z. b. Ges. Wieii p. 321. n. 420 (1864) (/>.;'.) : id., lieise Novara, 



Lep. I. p. 110. n. 84. t. 16. f. a (<?). (wc fig. b ?) (18G5) (Banda Is. ; ^). 

 (J?. PaiiiUo adrimlus, Wallace, Ti: Linn. .SV. Land. XXV. p. o7. n. 74. t. 4. f. 1 ( $ ) (1865) 



(Banda Is.) : Sbiuding., Iris VII. p. 107 (1894). 



(J. The subajiical white band on the forewings is always present, but the sjiols 

 composing it are more variable in size than in P. ae^/eus Don. The white band of 

 the hindwings is similar to that of P. iiegexis, i.e. much narrower than in P. aegeim 

 ornienus, and not extending beyond the lower median nervule. The spot between 

 the subcostal and upper discoidal veins is anteriorly not quite so long as tlie portion 

 of the subcostal nervule outside this spot. In /'. uerjeus ormemm it is much longer 

 than that portion of the ner\Tile (the measuring oi six specimens gives an average of 

 10 ; 11 in P. aegeus adrastiis, a.g&m»t an average of 10 : oh in P. aegeus ormenua). 

 The red anal sjiot .seems always to be well developed on both sides of the wing. 



On the underside of the hindwings, Felder's type-.specimen has a comjilete .series 

 of chrome-orange spots, the middle ones of which are, however, rather feeble ; mostly 

 the specimens have, besides the anal mark, only one submarginal spot. The discal 

 bluish lunules, which usually are on a level with the anterior part of the anal spot, 

 .stand sometimes farther towards the outer margin, and then are in the same position 

 as in aberrant examples of P. aegeus Don. 



?. Felder's type-specimen of this sex is said to be from New (iuinea; it agrees, 

 except in size, exactly with a specimen obtained b\' W. Dohert}' in the Banda 

 Islands. Koth the Felderian and the Dohertyan specimen differ from the ? figured 

 by Wallace (I.e. t. 4. f. 1), and from a specimen in .Mr. Crowley's collection, in the size 

 and form of the white area of the hindwings and the extension of the white on the 

 forewings ; indeed, they are scarcely distinguishable from the Waigeu female figured 

 by Wallace (I.e. t. 3. f. 1), e.xcept by the ])aler tint of the sul)marginal spots of the 

 hindwings. But as the colour of these spots is (piite the same in most of my Waigeu 

 and New Guinea examples on the one hand, and in the Banda sjiociineus on tlie other 

 hand, I must confess that I cannot tell any constant difference between P. aegeus 

 ddraslus- ? and P. aegeus cn-menus ? -ab. poh/donnus Ilaase. The material of 

 P. aegeus adAxtstus-^ is too scarce in collections. In future, when a good series of 

 ? ? can be compared, a difiference between the two females may be found. The 

 name of adrastus must be restricted to the specimens from the Banda I.slands; 

 Felder's female is, therefore, no adrastus, but an ormenvs. 



Hah. Banda Islands (W. Doherty, August 1892) (ti J, 1 ?). 



(d) : P. aegeus bismarckianus subsp. nov. [ S ]. 



?. PapUio websteri Grose Smith, Am,. May. N. IT. (6). XIII. p. 496 (?,«(•<; S) (1894) (New 

 Britain) ; id. & Kirby, liliop. Exot. II. Pap. p. 37. t. xv. f. 2 (189.5) ( ? , iiec (J) (1895). 



.Mr. Grose Smith received this insect, together with a number of males, from 



New Britain, and described it accordingly as the female sex to those males under the 



