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Margaritia verticalis Margavilia sericealis Scopiila Primalis 



cinctalis Scopula nivealis olivalis 



fuscalis 



W. Gaze. 



Art. LXXIII. — Notice of two New Species of Papilio from Penang^ 

 presented to the British Museum by Sir Wm. Norris. By 

 Adam White, Esq., Assistant in the Zoological Department of 

 the British Museum. 



Papilio Varuna. 



Wings of a deep Mack, tinged in some lights with a deep green hue ; the upper 

 wings have the neryes of a very deep black, the sides of the nerves are streaked with 

 greyish, the streaks heing lighter in colour as they approach the posterior margin, 

 where they coalesce and form an oblong white mark, traversed by the posterior nerve, 

 and separated from the edge by a narrow black margin ; the under side agrees with 

 the upper, except in having the streaks of a lighter hue. In the discoidal cell there 

 are four longitudinal black streaks. The under wings are without spots or streaks on 

 the upper or under sides; the margin has five rounded teeth. Head of a vermilion 

 red except the eyes, antennae and haustellum, which are black. Thorax black, with 

 two red spots in front, being the continuation of a red line on the sides. Abdomen 

 black above, sides and underparts vermilion red, except a row of six large transverse 

 squarish black spots in the middle, and six small reddish black spots on the sides. 



This species comes in Boisduval's 18th group, along with Papilio Nox of Swainson, 

 to which at first sight it is similar; there are two specimens, both of which are females. 



Papilio Iswara. 



Differs from Papilio Helenus (with which it agrees in form) in being much lar- 

 ger and in wanting the marginal row of lunulated red spots on the underside of the 

 lower wino-s; the large white spot on the same side is traversed by three of the nerves, 

 and is connected with the anterior anal ocellus by means of two indistinct whitish 

 lunules, behind and parallel to which are three lunules formed of bluish scales. 



Adam White. 



JOHN VAN VOOHST, ^SX SHfr^^/ PATERNOSTER ROW. 



