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the same as those from New Guinea. From Montrouzier's descriptions of the 

 Woodlarkian Papilios and the geogra})hical jwsition of the island I must conclude 

 that most of the Woodlarkian Papilios will have to stand as geograj)hical races under 

 separate names ; tlierofoie I think that it is much better to restrict Montrouzier's 

 names to the Woodlark Papilios, which we do not know, than to api)ly these names 

 with a (?) also to insects which inhabit other localities and which we can examine; 

 and I must satisfy myself by describing the P. ulysses from New Britain, etc., under 

 a separate name. 



Smaller than both cnitolyctis and orsippus, to which it comes nearest ; the sal)- 

 marginal spots and the whitish discal bandlike scaling of the underside of the hind- 

 wings as in autolyciis ; the whitish spot in the cell of the forewings below as large as 

 in joi'sa, i.e. larger than in autolycus. The white marginal spots of the forewings 

 are minute, divided by the black endings of the nervules, and sometimes in the 

 male sex almost obliterated. 



(S. Fofeivings above with the woolly stripes as broad as in iilys&en 1.. ; the blue 

 area is seldom extended to or beyond the apex of the cell ; tlie black spot upon the 

 black discocellular nervules is always joined to the black outer half of the wing. The 

 black marginal region of the hindwings is broader than in autolycus, joi-sft, idysses ; at 

 the .second discoidal nervnle (for example) the blue is e.Ktended only two-fifths the 

 way fi'om the cell to the outer margin. 



Below, the discal whitish scaling of the hindwings is more reduced than in 

 autolycus. 



?. The blue area of the forewings does not cjuite reach to the discocellular 

 nervules, and is more or less deeply sinuate within the end of the cell ; the blue spot 

 between the lower median nervules has not half the length of the cellule in which it 

 stands, in _;0(-s(( and aidolycus it is of about two-thirds the length of that cellule. 

 On the hindwings above the blue submarginal spots are wanting; that before the 

 lower median nervule is sometimes indicated by a few blue scales. 



Hab. New Britain (type; 8S, 3 ?); New Ireland (4 t?, 3 ?); Duke of York 

 Island. 



(/): P. tllysses orsippus Godm. & 8alv. [c?,?]. 



Popilio nr.<ij}jiiix (ioitmau iV .SiiU in. Ami. .M-nj. X. IT. (Ci). I. p. 101 (188S) (Giiuil.-iloiinar. 

 Solomon Is.). 



Similar to the precechng .subspecies. 



S. Blue area of the wings more extended ; the spots near the end ol the cell of 

 the forewings larger. Below, the wings are darker, especially in the marginal region ; 

 the brown basal area of the forewings is more extended, and exteriorly more convex; 

 the submarginal spots of the hindwings, except the last, are almost black ; the curved 

 line bordering each spot inside is pronouncedly blue. Marginid while spots of the 

 forewings not divided at the nervules. 



In the specimens from Alu, Shortland Islands, the submarginal spots of the 

 hindwings below are not black. 



?. The Guadalcanar female has the blue region of the forewings a little less 

 extended along the submedian vein than the preceding race ; the blue scales are less 

 closely set, and there is an obvious hairy patch behind the cell ; the hindwings have, 

 above, blue suljniarginal spots; below, the submarginal spots are more yellow than in 

 the 'male. 



In the Alu fenifilo ( )ic blue colour i-; even more reduced than in typical ulysses- ¥ ; 



