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rounded exterioily, or straightlv cut off, or obliiiuely sinuate. Though there is never 

 a coHspicuouri anal orange-red mark on the hindwings abo\e, some specimens from 

 German New Guinea show distinct traces of the spot, which in P. ambraz egipius is 

 so well and constantly developed. , 



Beneath, the hindwings have mostly only one orange-red spot, standing near the 

 anal angle ; many specimens possess, however, a submarginal spot of the same red, or 

 a whitish colour, between the lower median neryules. A maie from Waigeu is highly 

 interesting, as it exhibits beneath four feebly marked, but large whitish discal 

 markings, shaped as in the nude of F. polytes L., and standing between the submedian 

 nervure and lower discoidal nervule. I propose to call this interesting (atavistic V) 

 aberration — 



(«') : (^-ab. conspectus ab. no v. 



In many specimens of urahrax, especially in individuals from Waigeu, these 

 spots are indicated by a few white scales. 



S. Upperside : the white area of the hindwings consists usually of sis (five 

 extra- and one intracellular) spots in all, which are seldom separated from one another, 

 as the veins themselves are nearly always completely covered with white scales. The 

 intracellular spot is sometimes very much reduced ; the extracellular white markings 

 are occasionally also very small, and are often partly replaced by red ones ; that 

 between the discoidal nervules is not seldom absent. In a few examples the white 

 area is connected with the costal margin by means of two additional white markings 

 (compare ? of P. polytes L., p. 348). The red colour behind the posterior part of the 

 white area extends mostly from the suliniedian vein beyond the second median nervule ; 

 sometimes it reaches the upper iiiedian nervule, while in other individuals it scarcely 

 reaches the second median branch ; the nervules traversing the red patch are 

 seldom white. There are from one to three submarginal red sjiots, besides a red 

 marginal mark between the lower median and the submedian veins which is mostly 

 joined to the large subanal red spot in the same cellule. A specimen from Kedscar 

 Bay, British New Guinea, has five submarginal spots, and leads over to P. (mibrux 

 eyipius Misk. from Queensland. 



Underside: as above; the series of snlimarginal s]iots of the hindwings is, 

 however, mostly complete ; sometimes I he two spots lietween the subcostal and second 

 discoidal veins are wanting. 



l-5ois(luval attriljutes to his P. orophancs a series of marginal (recte submarginal) 

 lunules on the upperside of the hindwings, of which the exterior (rede anterior) ones 

 are \ery little marked. I am not quite convinced that orophnues is the fciiude of 

 the present race of P. arabrux, but believe that it belongs to P. ariibrax epiTUS 

 Wall.; as the description is, however, not sufficient to solve the question, and the 

 type apparently is lost, it is best to treat oraphdues as a synonym of ambrax. 



(b-) : ab. ambracius Wall. 



(J ? . Popillo ambracia Wallace, Tr. Linn. Soc. Luml. XXV. p. 54. n. 68 (1865) (Waigeu) : 

 Butl., Ann. Mag. X. II. (4). XVIII. p. 248. n. 30 (1877) (Pt. Moresby). 



c? with white patch at tlie apex of the forewings. 



? with white })atch in the anal region of the forewings. 



Occurs together with P. aiabrax in all localities. 



Hah. New tiuima: Dutch New (iuinea (25 d , 20 ?), German New Guinea 



