( 3,56 ) 



(11 t?, 4 ?), British New Guinea (Kedscar Bay, 3 J, 1 ?); Waigeu (8 d, 6 ?); 

 Mysol ; ISalvatty ; D'P'nt recast eaux Islands (a short series). 



(h): P. ambrax epirns Wall. [J], 



iJ'. Paj)ilio eph-us Wallace, Tr. Lhm. Sue. Loud. XXV. p. 54. n. GO (1865) (Aru Is.). 

 (J $ . Pupilio ambrax var. epiruK, Ribbe, Iris I. p. 78. n. 5 (1886) (Aru Is.). 



S- Differs from P. ambrax Boisd. in the hindwings being inovided above with 

 an orange-red anal lunule, and below with a series of from four to se\en submarginal 

 spots, besides the anal mark. The white area on the hindwings is shaped as in 

 certain P. avibrux; the posterior ones of the white spots are exteriorly rounded. 



?. Undescribed and unknown to me. Wallace, /.c, referred the /e/;(a/e figured 

 by Blanchard in Voya;je au Pule Sud. IV. t. 1. f 3. 4 to epiinis; I do not see that 

 Blanchard's figure, said to be taken from a New Guinea specimen, disagrees with 

 New Guinea examiJes. Ribbe has found both sexes, as far as I could ascertain, 

 but where his specimens now are I do not know. 



Hab. Aru (and Key ?) Island.-^. 



(c): P. ambrax egipius ^lisk. [<?,?]. 



PapUio egipius Miskin, Tr. Etit. Soc. Loml. p. 451 (1876) (Rockingham Bay) : Olliff, Proc. Lliiii. 

 N.S. Wales p. 395 (1888) (Mt. Belender-Ker, Queensland). 



c?. Forewings with a white apical patch. Hindwings above with au anal orange- 

 red spot, and below with a series of submarginal spots varj-ing in number from four 

 to seven. The white area of the hindwings often does not extend beyond the lower 

 median nervule. 



?. Forewings with a white patch in the anal region. Hindwings with a 

 complete series of submarginal spots above and below. The orange-red colour of 

 the upperside behind the white discal area is more restricted than in P. ambrax 

 Boisd. 



Hab. Queensland (12 cf, 13 ?). 



127. Papilio phestus Gui^r. [6,2, pupa]. 



J. PapUw phistu^ Gui'rin, I"<.,/. C/hHU', Alhs, I,i«. t. 14. f. 2. A. u. (182y) : Boisd., Voi/. .l^fr.,/., 

 Lep. p. 41 (1832) (j«,trla'^) : id., Spn: Ghi. Up. I. p. 21-_'. n. 27 (1836) {putr. dub.) : Guf^rin, 

 I.e., Zonl. III. p. 274 (1842?) ("New Guinea " ex err.) ; Doubl. Westw. & Hew., Gen. Diurn. 

 Lep. I. p. 12. n. 73 (1846) : Gray, On. Lep. Ins. B. M. I. p. 21. n. 94 (1852) ; id., List Lep. his. 

 B. .1/. I. p. 28. n. 101 (1856) ; Feld., Verh. z. b. Gfs. Wlen p. 320. n. 414 (1864) ; Wall., Tr. 

 Linn. Sue. Loud. XXV. p. 50 (1865). 



S- Pupil iu purkimoni Honrath, Berl. EtU. Zut. XXX. p. 1211. t. 5. f. 1 (1886) (New Britain). 



Though this species is said by Gu^rin to be found in New Guinea, I do not 

 believe that it occurs there; it is quite probable that the type-specimen was found 

 on one of the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, which have also been visited by 

 the Coqaille, and that this is only one of the numerous errors of locality which we 

 so often find in the material collected on " Voyages round the World." 



According to the figure and the type-specimen in the collection of Mr. II. W. 

 Adams, P. parkinsoni Hour, is the same as P. phestus Guer. Honrath compares 

 P. parkinsoni with P. wmbrax Boisd., and does not mention P. phestue (iuer. 



The specimens from the different islands do not show any localised variation 

 which might induce me to separate the species into local forms; they are so variable 

 in every locality both in size and pattern that I cannot find a single character which 

 appears more often in one island than in another. 



