papilionid.t:. — papilionin^e.- — ornithoptera. 



Two males of this estraordiuiiry aud gorgvous inscut have reeeutlv l)een sent to Eughiud I'V 

 Mr. Woodford, one of which is here titi-ured, and the other is in the Collection of Messrs. God- 

 man and Salvin. 



Mr. Woodford captured them in the Island of Malayta, one of the Salomon Islands, with 

 several females, flyint,' at the tops of trees, where he was obliged to shoot them. 



A specimen of the female has been in the British Museum for upwards of thirty years, and 

 is described, aud the upperside figured, in the " Proceedings of the Zoological Society," 1866. An 

 underside of the female is here iigured f<ir the first time. 



In the Collection of Henley Grose Smith. 



The male somewhat resembles 0. TUluniuit, De Haan. but is still more remarkable in 

 fi>rni and markings. 



