PAPILIONID.E. — I'AI'lI.lO. 



Hab. Aroa River, British New Guinea, at an altitude of 8,000 feet 

 (Weiske). 



In the Collections of the Hon. Walter Eothsohild, Mr. Grose-Smith, and in Germany, 

 This remarkable and beautiful insect is nearest to P. Madeyanun. Leach. 



XXXVI. —PAPILTO DIXONI. Figs. 3, 4. 



J'ajilliu Di.rimi, H. Grose-Smith, " Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," Ser. 7, Vol. VI. (August, 1900). 



Exp. 4^ inches. 



Feinidc. Upperside. Anterior wings rather pale fuliginous brown, (hirker 

 at the base and the costal and outer margi)is ; the dark areas more restricted 

 than in the same sex of P. Kiihni, Honrath, the veins and rays in the cell and 

 between the veins also dark fuliginous ])rown. Posterior wings pale fuliginous 

 brown, with the base and outer third darker ; the crimson markings on the 

 underside showing indistinctly through the wings. 



Underside. Anterior wings as above. Posterior wings brownish-black, 

 with a pale crimson irregular band a little beyond the cell, extending obliquely 

 from near the abdominal margin to the upper median nervule, much narrower 

 than the crimson band in a similar position on the underside of the posterior 

 wings of /'. 7v;//(;// ; outside this band crossing the disc, between the veins, is a 

 row of four large pale crimson lunules, of which the first and fourth are the 

 narrowest. 



Hab. Bwool, North Celebes. 



lu the Collection of Mr. Grose-Smith. 



Nearest to the female of P. Kiilini, which it resembles in shape; it was eai^tuivd b_v 

 Mr. Frank Dixon about 30 miles inland at an elevation of 800 feet. 



