( ^^5 ) 



of those which have heen examined in other collections, have red M-ales at the base 

 of the forewings above. 



?. The amount of luteous white or white on both wings is variable; sometimes 

 more than the apical third of the cell of the hindwiugs is occupied by white or 

 buffish white ; in other specimens this cellular spot is reduced to a rather small and 

 ill-defined patch situated in the posterior part of the ai)ex of the cell. Forewings 

 above with a more or less distinct patch at the base, which varies in colour from red 

 to yellow, as also the basal, marginal, and submarginal spots of the underside do in 

 both sexes. 



The submarginal and marginal spots of the hindwiugs beneath form hooks 

 (anteriorly) or rings (posteriorly) in J and ? ; they are, however, not constant ; in 

 the ? the rings are seldom complete, the submarginal spots, which here stand very 

 far from the outer margin, being absent or merged together with the discal buffish 

 area; in the S, the red discal mark close to the anal mark is often absent. 



The specimens (of S and ?) with the spots yellow instead of red belong to — 



(«-) : ab. hypoxanthus Ruber. 

 Pajiiliu deiphobus ab. hypoxanthus Rober, Tijdschr. i-. Ent. XXXIV. p. 275 (1891) (Key). 



TTiis aberration, which has been noted already by several of the old authors, 

 occurs in all localities together with the typically coloured specimens, and is 

 connected with them by all intergradations. 



Hah. Amboina (6 6, 3?); Ceram (2 S, 1 ¥); Burn (1 ?); Key (according to 

 Kiiber). 



I have seen, and possess myself, sjjecimens which are said to be from Ternate 

 and Batjan, and Dr. Staudinger speaks also of tailed deiphoiites (Stauding. & i^chatz. 

 I.e. p. 8) which he received from Batjan. I strongly doubt that this tailed Pajiilio 

 occm-s in the Northern Moluccas; the Moluccan insects have so often been mixed 

 up by collectors that I do not rely upon the locality of any of the specimens collected 

 in former times ; even the IMoluccan and New Guinean specimens have often been inter- 

 mixed ; and unless a careful collector sends tailed deiphohus from Batjan and Ternate, 

 I cannot accept these localities as being inhabited, besides the tailless deiphontes 

 Feld., by the tailed deiphohus. 



100. Papilio deipylus Feld. [<?, ??]. 



tJ?. Paidli', drijiijbis FuUur. I'. /A. :. A. 0,.<. Win, p. :w:i. n. 455 (I8C4) (Nova Guinea): id 



Rrisi! Nocarii, Li'ii. I. p. 128. n. ',(5 (18lJo) (Xova Guinea). 

 (!) PaiiHio ileijihviitis var., Stauding. & Schatz. K.wl. Srhmell. I. p. 8 (1884) (Batjan : deiiilmnlcs 



with tails). 

 Felder gives Nova Guinea as patria of this Papilio; the tliree sjiecimetis in his 

 collection, including the ty[ies of tJ and ?, bear, however, tlie locality " Ternate." 



Staud. & Schatz, I.e., record a S and ? of a tailed P. deiphontes from Batjan 

 (see above) which differ in pattern from P. deipltontes. Unfortunately these specimens 

 are no longer in Dr. Staudinger's collection ; it is quite possible that they were P. 

 deipylus, with a wrong locality attached to them. Most recently Dr. Staudinger 

 received P. deipylus from Waigeu, and the specimen which he sent us agrees perfectly 

 with Felder's type. The only locality from where P. deipylus is known at present is 

 the island of Waigeu. It is, however, quite probable that the Felderian locality " Nova 

 Guinea" is also correct, as the Waigeu Papilios and those from New tininea (at least 

 from the North- Western Peninsula) are the same. 



