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RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



2. Ornithoptera hephaestus. (Tab. XXVII., fig. 3 >? , 4 s.) 



]'ajHlio Hfphastun, Fekier, Beise Nov. Lep. i. p. 16, n. 8 (1805). 

 Ornithoptera Leda, Wall. Trans. Liun. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 39, n. 8 (1865). 



Male. Anterior wings velvety black, the outer marginalfringe alternately greyish-white and black; 

 posterior wings bright pale golden yellow, the neuration, outer margin (inwardly scalloi>ed), abdominal 

 margin, and basal area— crossing upper end of cell and terminating on costal margin beyond middle of 

 costal nervure — black. Wings beneath as above ; anterior wings generally with the median uervules more 

 or less margined with greyish ; posterior wings with the portion of the scalloped margin situate between 

 the second and third median nervules broken and maculate, and with a notched black spot on abdominal 

 area a little above anal angle. Body above with the head and pronotum black, the last with an anterior 

 carmine collar ; abdomen above fuscous, the segmental incisures ochraceous, and with a basal central pale 

 fascia ; thorax beneath and legs black, the first with its margins at bases of wings carmine ; abdomen 

 beneath yellow. 



Female. Larger than the male, the posterior wings above with a submarginal series of black spots, 

 the one between the second and third median nervules touching the scalloped margin, two large 

 spots — sometimes fused into an elongate patch — at anal angle. Wings beneath as above ; the anterior 

 wings with the neuration more or less obscurely margined with greyish, and sometimes with a distinct 

 greyish patch near posterior angle, the spots on the posterior wings sometimes narrowly margined with 

 bluish-grey. 



Var. a. <? . Posterior wings with the scalloped margin between the second and third median nervules 

 broken and macular as beneath, and with a more or less distinct submarginal series of minute Idack spots 

 placed between the nervules — more distinct beneath than above. 



Var. a. 2 . (Tab. XXVII., fig. 2.) 



Ornithoptera rujicollis, Butl., $ , Trans. Linu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 552, u. 1 (1877). 



Anterior wings above sometimes black as in typical specimens (Tab. XXVII., fig. 4) or streaked with 

 greyish at end of cell, and with the nervules more or less broadly margined with greyish ; posterior wings 

 with the submarginal row of spots larger. 



Exp. wings, S , 140 to 150 millim. ; 2 , 168 to 185 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (colls. Saiier and Dist.) ; Perak (Biggs — coll. Dist.). — 

 Celebes (colls. Wallace, Felder, Gosse) ; Menado (coll. Dist.). 



This is a race of the 0. pompcus, Cram., and which has another closely allied race or 

 species in the North Indian 0. cerherus, Feld. Mr. Butler had described the female specimen 

 in my own collection (Tab. XXVII., fig. 2) as the female of his 0. rufcoUis, but this is at once 

 seen to be an error by the wings beneath having their bases carmine, a character not found in 

 0. rujicollis. 



b. Extreme bases of iiimjs hciicdtli not frin<jed with caniiiiii'. 



3. Ornithoptera ruficollis. (Tab. XXVII. , fig. 1 <? .) 



(hnithdjitera ruiieollis, Butler, Trana. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 552, n. 1 (1877), (part). 



Male. Anterior wings velvety black ; apex of cell, and the area above and beyond apex of cell elongately 

 continued along the nervules, ochraceous ; fringe alternately grey and white. Posterior wings bright and 

 pale golden yellow, the neuration, costal, abdominal and outer margins — the last narrow and scalloped 



