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name nf P. wehsferi. Recently we olitaiiied again a number of male websteri and also 

 some feimiles which agree with these nudes exactly in the same way as the females 

 of laarchus, orita,s, etc., agree with their males, and, therefore, are undoubtedly 

 Webster i-females. Of the ormenus-Wke female described by iMr. Grose Smith we 

 received also two specimens, and I come to the conckision that this ormevus-\\]ie 

 female represents a New Britain race of aegeits of which we do not yet know the 

 male. T cannot believe that the insect which I propose to call hmmarcl'laaas is 

 a second form of tlie female sex of P. websteri, as it agrees too well with certain 

 specimens of P. aeijeus orinenu.s (fuerin, and as it is scarcely probable that one 

 female-form of a species agrees with one group of species (with aegeus, hecataeus, 

 prospero, etc., which have male and female dissimilar), while the other female and 

 the male agree with another group of species (with wooilfonli, laarchus, oritas, etc., 

 which have the sexes similar). 



Siiriilar to P. aegeus ormetivs 'i-ab. poli/ilvriitus Haase, but the band of the 

 forewings pure white above and below, and more regularly arched ; the spot between 

 the ujiper median veins stands far from the discoidal cell ; the posterior or the two 

 posterior spots are broader than long ; the spot in the end of the cell is small or 

 (type) obliterated above. The white patch on the hindwings is of the same size above 

 and below, and is somewhat larger than in Wallace's fig. 3 of t. 3 (I.e.); there is 

 a small white lunule behind the costal margin, as in P. aegeus Don. (Jn the upper- 

 side there are two orange submarginal spots, besides an orange anal mark ; below, the 

 submarginal spots are much smaller than in the above-cited figure. The two blue 

 spots between the median veins are small, and in the type .straight, in the second 

 specimen arched, but with the concavity directed towards the disc, not towards the 

 outer margin. 



Hub. New Britain (2 ? ). 



91. Papilio inopinatus Butl. [c?,?]. 



PiijiHio hiopinaUin Butler, P. Z. S. p. 370. n. 15 ( J, ? ) (1K.'<3) (Maroe I., Tenimber I.«.) ; Ruber, 

 Tijihclii: r. Ent. p. 274 (1891) ; Grose Smith & Kirby, Hh„p. Exnl. II. Pa/,, p. 27. t. 12. f. 1 

 (^). 2(?)(189B). 



S. The costal part of the white band on the hindwings is rather variable in 

 length ; in the single (damaged) specimen from ]5abber I.sland I have, it extends 

 farther to the ba.se of the wing than in any of the Tenimber specimens. The 

 number of the vermilion red and blue spots on the underside of the hindwings is 

 very inconstant ; the anal sjiot is always jiresent below and aliove. The forewing of 

 my .smallest male is -is mm. long, that of my largest 70. 



?. The discal white patch of the allied species is absent from the u]i]ierside of 

 the hindwings; below it is indicated by a variable, buflBsh, irregular band tinged 

 with tawny. The submarginal spots to the hindwings are very inconstant in size and 

 shape. Varies in the length of the forewings from 58 to 76 mm. 



Hab. Tenimber Islands (Timor Tjaut) (\X. Dohorty, .Tune to ,luly 1>02 ; .Micholitz, 

 February to :\Iarch 1892) (9 d", 8 ?); Babber Island (Baba) (W. Doherty, July 1892) 

 (1 cJ); bammer(l S, 1 ? ). 



92. Papilio bridgei -Mat hew [cJ, ?]. 



Piipilia l,ri,h/,i Mathew, P. Z. S. p. 349. t. 34. f. 2 ((J) (1886) (Treasury I.) ; Godm. & Salvin, 

 Ami. .Vnc,. .V. If. (6). I. p. 214 (1888) (.\lu I.. Solomon Is.). 



