( 41'J ) 



from the Southern Moluccas. My three Batjan specimens and two Halmahera 

 examples have rather more white on the hindwings than the Ceram individuals- 

 Felder's two Halmahera specimens agree in the amount of white, however, with the 

 Ceram examples. 



Hah. Amboina; Ceram (2 6); Batjan (3 S); Halmahera (4 6). 



(Ii): P. aristeus parmatus (iray [c?,?]. 



Papilio parmalus Gray, Vul. f.eji. /««. U. M. I. p. 30. n. 141. t. 'A. f. 2 (1852) (Australia) ; id., List 

 Lep. /««. B. M. I. p. 41. n. 148 (1856) (Australia) ; Feld., Ver/i. s. b. Ges. Wien p. 302. n. iy2 

 (18G4) ; Wall., Tr. Lhiii. Soc. Loml. XXV. p. 04. n. 105 (1865) (Aru ; Waigeu ; Australia) ; 

 Oberth., Et. d'Eut. p. 63. n. 157. (1879) ; Miskiu, Proc. Roy. Sue. Queeml TV. p. 17 (1887) 

 (IMackay) ; Stauding., Iris I. p. 15 (1889) (" Sikkim " ex cn-ore) ; Lucas, Pruc. Roy. Soc. Queeiisl. 

 VIII. p. 68 (1892) (Yeppoon). 



Piqiilio aristeus, Pagensteclier, .Tnlirb. Nitss. Ver. Niil. p. 203 (1884) (p.p. : Australia) ; Ribbe, Jria 

 II. p. 210. sub n. 10 (1890) (p.p. ; Australia). 



Papilio aniicrales, Eimer, Arlbihl. Schmetl. p. 170 (1889) (p.p.). 



Papilio anticruies var. poniKitiis, Eimer, I.e. t. 3. f. 7 (1889). 



Pujiilio pherecrates Felder, Vcrh. z. b. Ges. Wien p. 302. n. 193 (1865) {nom. imd.) : id., Reise Nuvara, 

 Lep. I. p. 56. n. 43 (1866) (Nov. Guinea). 



Papilio ])armatus subsp. guineensis Grose Smith, Xov. ZnuL I. p. 333. n. 10 (1894) (Humboldt Bay). 



Spot on each side of the protliorax deeper yellow than in the other races. The 

 median black band on the upperside of the hindwings is, in specimens from the 

 same locality, complete, or broadly interrupted in the middle, or entirely absent. 



The postcellular white area on the forewings is much broader than in P. aristeus 

 Cram., and in this respect parnudus agrees with anticrates Doubl. from India. 



Felder's P. yherecvdies from New Guinea is not distinguishable from jjaitnatus. 

 In the Felder collection there is only a single specimen under the name of 

 P. 'parmatus Gray, which is labelled "Austral. Cap. York, coll Deyrolle " ; this 

 specimen is certainly not P. purmatus, but P. anticrates Doubl., as it exhibits 

 all the characters which distinguish P. aristeus anticrates Doubl. from P. aristeus 

 parmatus (xray. 



Eimer (I.e.) unites parnuUus with anticrates; though both are closely allied, 

 they can be separated as follows : — 



In anticrates tlie white submarginal lunules are larger, the dark bands on 

 the under surface of both wings much paler ochreous, than in parmatus, whereas 

 the latter form exhibits the above-mentioned two conspicuous ochreous spots 

 on the prothorax, which are absent or scarcely indicated in anticrates. Most 

 of the specimens of anticrates have on the forewings, at the apical side of the 

 white band situate outside the discocellular nervules, a white spot which is absent 

 from all the other forms of P. aristeus. This additional spot is present in Felder's 

 specimen above referred to. 



Hab. Queensland (G J',4?); New Guinea (4 c?); Aru Ishuids ; Waigeu (2 t?). 



(c): P. aristeus anticrates Doulil. [c?,?]. 



PapiVii, anticrates Doubleday, Ann. Ma,j. X. IL XVIII. p. 371 (184G) (Sylhet) : Doubl. Westw. & 

 Hew., Gen. Diuni. Lep. p. 14. n. 120 (1846) : Gray, Od. Lep. Ins. Ii. .1/. I. p. 29. n. 140. t. 3. f. 3 

 (1852) (Sylbet) ; id.. List Lep. his. B. M. I. p. 41. n. 147 (1856) (Sylhet) ; Horsf. & Moore, 

 0/^ Le)i. his. .Uns. K. L C. I. p. 115. n. 231 (1857) (Darjeeling) ; Felder, Verb. :. b. Gcs. Wien 

 p. 302. n. 190 (1864) (Sylhet : Darjeeling) ; Moore, /'. Z. S. p. 759 (1865) ; Elwe.s, Tr. Ent. 

 Sue. p. 434. n. 428 (1S88) (Sikkim; rare in the lowest valleys; abuudant at Sivoke; ? described) ; 

 Eimer, Artbild. Schmetl. p. 170 (p.p.) t. 3. f. 6 (1889). 



Papilio unlicrate/i vat. parmatus, Eimer, I.e. t. 3. f. 8 (1889). 



