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Palawan. The first minute spot between the fourth and fifth subcostal branches 

 is often absent. 



From P. codriis Cram, it differs in the spots of the forewings being devoid of 

 scales alx)ve and below ; in P. codrus the spots are scaled on the underside. 



//at. Java (3 <J) ; Banka Island ; Sumatra ; iNIalacca (according to Staudinger) ; 

 Borneo (13 J, 1 ?) ; Palawan (2 J, 1 ? ). 



185. Papilio mendana Godm. & Salv. [c?,?]. 



rapHln me-ndmia Godman & Salvin, Ami. ifnij. N. H (6). I. p. 212 (1888) (Guadalcanar I.) ; 

 Grose Smith & Kirby, Rhop. Exot. I. Pup. p. 9. t. 4. f . 3. A 4 ( ? ) (1888) (Guadalcanal- 1.). 



Differs from P. codnia Cram., with which it agrees in the form and structure 

 of the head, thorax, and wings, nearly in the same way as P. isander Godm. & Salv. 

 does from P. sarpedoii L. It inhabits apparently all the Lslands of the Solomon 

 group, and must for the present be divided into two local forms: — 



(«) : P. mendana Godm. & Salv., forma typ. [c?,?]. 



I have examined, besides some examples from Guadalcanar, three specimens 

 from Bougainville Island obtained by Carl Ribbe. The Bougainville examples differ 

 slighfly from certain Guadalcanar specimens, and, when in future a larger series of 

 individuals can be compared, may turn out to belong to another sub-species; for the 

 present I cannot separate them ; their hindwings are shorter, and the submarginal 

 spots of the latter are more distinctly marked, and below there is a conspicuous green 

 spot between the praecostal and costal veins which in typical meiidana is scarcely 

 indicated. 



Hub. Solomon Islands: (xuadalcanar (2 ¥ ^, Bougainville (1 J; in cull. Kibbe: 

 1 6,1 ?). 



(h): P. mendana neyra subsp. nov. [c?,?]. 



Differs from P. mendana in the shorter hindwings, of which the white spots 

 are more reduced, and in the smaller and partly obliterated spots on the forewings. 



<J. Forewings, above, with the mark at the inner margin a third shorter than 

 in mendana ; the two spots between the suluiiedian and lower median veins very 

 small, the anterior one scarcely visible, the posterior one subcircular, of a length 

 of about 2 mm. ; the spot between the third and second median veins almost point- 

 like ; the following one a little larger, sublinear; the two next still a little larger, 

 but hardly reaching a length of 3 mm. ; the spot before the upper discoidal and that 

 behind the third subcostal veins are merged together with the small spots which 

 stand in the same cellules not far from the apex of the discoidal cell. On the 

 underside, the discal markings between the second median and tlie submcdian veins 

 are obliterated ; the preceding three spots are about equal in size, a little longer than 

 broad, and reacli a length of about 3 mm. ; the following spots as above. 



Uindwinfjs, above, with two white markings before the subcostal nervure, 

 a very small white spot in the angle formed by the subcostal and upper discoidal 

 veins, a green elongate mark in the cell ; another mark, a little longer, but narrower, 

 between the lower median veins, and a very small linear spot between the upper 

 median nervules ; four minute submarginal whitish spots are feebly marked. Below, 

 without a red subdiscal mark between the lower median veins, and with a complete 

 series of white submarginal spots. 



