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The type specimen in my collection was captured on Cape 

 York by Mr. H. Elgner during February of this year ; both in 

 size and shape it is similar to the ordinary female form of Fapilio 

 cegeus, Don. A second specimen from the same locality during 

 the same month is much darker above ; the terminal interneural 

 spots of both wings are much smaller ; the subterminal series of 

 spots of hind-wing is represented by deep orange spots between 

 veins 7 and 8 and 6 and 7, with a faint orange splash below vein 

 6, and an orange anal spot, thus leaving the outer third of wing 

 almost wholly dark-brown. Below, this specimen is much as in 

 the type, but the subterminal spots of hind-wing are deeper in 

 colour, and do not approach each other so closely. A second 

 example of this beautiful form (Prince of Wales Island, June, 

 1908) is in the collection of Mr. G. Lyell. A third specimen 

 (Prince of Wales Island, June), in my own collection, has a dis- 

 tinct series of pale lunules on the hind-wing both above and 

 below, and the extension of the white central area below between 

 veins 7 and 8 is much narrower. 



So far I have knowledge of but six specimens of this form. 

 Three of these, as mentioned above, are in my own collection ; 

 two others, from Prince of Wales Island, are in the collection of 

 Mr. G. Lyell. The sixth specimen is in the Miskin collection of 

 the Queensland Museum, and is one of the two specimens (the 

 other I am unable to trace) recorded by Miskin in his catalogue 

 as P. ormemis. By the courtesy of the trustees and the Acting- 

 Director of the Museum I have been enabled to examine this 

 specimen in Sydney, and I find that the white area of the hind- 

 wing below is extended to the costa. 



The distinctive point that at once separates this form from the 

 corresponding P. onnenus form, amanga, is the presence of the 

 white bar joining the central area and the costa, as in the normal 

 form of female P. cngeus. 



Miskin's error in recording his specim.ens under the name of 

 P. onnenus, Guerin, does not remove the latter species from our 

 Australian lists. I have examples of P. onnenus from Darnley 

 Island and from Murray Island (both within Austrahan territorial 

 limits). I have examined a number of specimens from these 

 islands, and in addition to the typical form of male and the 

 typical form of female (the so-called "aberration " polydorinus), 

 I have in my collection a single male form pandion, several of the 

 female form amanga, including one all pure white above, and a 

 single female very close to the form inornatus. 



In his "Revision of the Eastern Papilios " (1895, p. 305), 

 Rothschild remarks that Papilio ormenus, from the Woodlark 

 Islands, may be different from P. ormenus, Guerin, from New 

 Guinea. I have lately examined two small series from the 

 Woodlark Islands, and the following notes should therefore be of 



