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*Mitcroiilo^!i,i j,hU;jrl„ii Boisduval, fipec. Grii. Li'p. mi. i. p. 34C. n. 22 (187'.) (X. Guinea ;— coll. 



Charles Oberthiir) ; Kirby, Cut. Lej>. Ilel. i. p. C31. n. 27 (1892). 

 *.\[(wr<i<jhi>!m matacilla Boisduval, l.r. p. ;i47. n. 2.'i (1875) (Dorey ; — coll. Charles Oberthiii-) : 



Kirby, l.r. n. 25 (1892). 

 *M<ti-i-ii(ih»im ci/iiiris Boisduval, /.''. p. '■M'l^l n. ;',(! (1875) (Halmahera ;— coll. Charles Oberthiir) ; 



Kirby, l.c.n. 2C (18;i2). 

 *.]liirriif/hjs.i(( i-dliirr!", Pagenstecher (unit Walker, 1866), Jnhrh. Nmoi. Ver. Nat. xxxvii. p. 210 



(18«4) (.\mboina) ; id.. I.e. xxxix. p. 112. n. 7 (188G) (Aru) ; id., Jrh i. p. 86. n. 7 (1886) 



(Aru) ; id., .lahrh. N'las. Ve>: Nut. xli. p. 11)9. n. 212 (1888) (Amboina). 

 .Miirnir/ldsxii iippi-iu-iiiiiinx Lucas, TJir QiifrnsUdidn- xxxix. p. 834 (1891) (Mackay ; excluding 



abdomen). 

 .MiicnKjhiKxii liiieata id., he. (1891) (Mackay ; abdomen only!). 



*.\l,ici;,,il„!,^ii hihrn^i, Swinhoe, Cl. l.rj,. 11,1. .\hi^. O.r. i. p. 5. n. 19 (1892) (Burn :— Mus. Oxford). 

 *. \/nc,-()f/l(i.<i.f(i tiK'liicceiixis Rothnchikl, NdN'. Zmn.. i. p. 07 (1894) (partim ; N.Guinea; Moluccas; 



— -Mus. Tring). 



c? ? . Anal tuft with aljout the apical half oraiige-ochraceons or pale tawny ; 

 underside of tuft as a rule as pale yellow as the mesial patches of the abdomen ; 

 side-tufts of third to 6fth segments of the same colour as underside of tail, often 

 more yellow at the tips, not white ; middle of breast shaded with ochraceous, 

 base of hindwiiig more or less yellow. 



The individual variation in our long series of specimens from Little Key 

 and Dutch New Guinea is considerable, and we have not found a character by 

 which to separate the examples from the Moluccas from those obtained in various 

 other places. But the specimens of one locality taken as a whole are not always 

 identical with the set of specimens from another island. The Mefor individuals, 

 for instance, are more yellow on the underside of the abdomen than most examples 

 from otlier localities. In British New Guinea and dependent islands the yellow 

 band of the hindwing is much reduced even in the females, wliile the band is 

 more often complete than interrupted on the Southern Moluccas. 



J/((b. Southern and Northern Moluccas ; Key ; Aru ; all over New Guinea 

 and the adjacent islands ; Queensland. 



In the Tring Museum GO-odd specimens from : Halmahera ; Batjau ; Obi ; 

 Buru ; Amboina; Ceram ; Tiandoe ; Key; Aru; Dorey; Mefor; Kapaur; Milne 

 Bay ; ^Voodlark ; (Queensland. 



e. M. corytlnts xanthnrus subsp. nov. 



(? ? . Close to ijyleney especially to the individuals from Mefor. Tail more 

 extended yellow and generally paler ; breast more ochraceous in middle, and 

 palpus also shaded with ochraceous, being much less greyish white than in the 

 other forms. 



Hah. Teuimber Islands. 



In the Tring Museum 8 $$, 15 ?? from: Larat (Kiihn, t;ipe)\ Seira 

 (= Sjerra), vi. vii. (Doherty) ; Selaru, iii. iv. (Micholitz). 



f. it. cori/thii.'< fulcicaudata. 



*Marro!/I()Ksafulvicaudata Butler, Ann. .Mag. N. If. (5). x. p. 155 (1882) (N. Britain ;— Mus. Brit.); 

 Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. p. 571. n. 1 (1888) (Aola, Guadalc.) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Ilel. i. 

 p. 632. n. 46 (1892) ; Pagenst., in Chun, Zoologica xii. 29. p. 18. n. 18 (1900) (N. Pommern). 



cj ? . Side-patches 2 and 3 of abdomen large, anal tuft as extended yellow 

 as in xanfkiirus, breast and all the tibiae ochraceous, abdomen below more or 

 less extended yellow; basal area C— (SM^) of hindwing yellow as far as first 

 discal line, this colour sometimes reaching second line behind cell, 



