38 PAPILIONID.E. PAPILIONINiE. — PAPILIO. 



grey scales, and divided by the veins, those at the end of the cell, which they 

 slightly invade, the most produced, thence gradually diminishing towards the 

 outer angle. Posterior wings with a large white patch, the upper part of which 

 is bounded by the upper subcostal nervule, crossing the outer third of the cell, 

 and extending downwards along the submedian nervure, with some grey scales 

 between that nervure and the inner margin ; the outer edge of the white patch 

 radiates between the nervures, and is clearly defined ; a rufous subquadrate spot 

 above the anal angle, followed by another between the two lowest median 

 nervulcs. Incisions narrowly white. 



Underside as above. On the anterior wings the curved row of white spots 

 is more distinct and invades the end of the cell, which is broadly and irregularly 

 marked with black. On the posterior wings the white patch extends nearly to 

 the inner margin, there is a submarginal row of rufous bars between the nervures, 

 the spot above the u,nal angle is larger than on the upperside, and there are 

 clusters of blue scales in the interspaces of the median nervules outside the 

 white patch. Incisions more broadly white than on the upperside. 



Head and body black ; head with some white spots above, hinder orbits 

 broadly, and lower orbits narrowly, bordered with white ; face with two white 

 streaks in the middle. 



Hab. New Britain. 



Four specimens, one being a female, were sent (Captains Cayley Webster, and Cotton), of 

 wliicli a male is in the Collection of the Hon. Walter Rothscbikl, and the others are in the Col- 

 lection of Mr. H. Grose Smith. 



Belongs to the group of P. Ormenus, Gucr. The male differs from the other species princi- 

 pally in having the row of spots towards the apex of the anterior wings cuiwed, less oblique, and 

 fvirther from the apex, and on the posterior wings, in the upper part of the white patch on the 

 iijiperside not extending inwardly along the costa towards the base. The female differs in 

 having the curved row of white spots which crosses the anterior wings much more restricted, 

 the patch in the posterior wings being pure white, wider and more clearly defined. 



A collection lately received contains a series of this species, of which three are females. 



