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XXVI. Description of Papilio Godeffroyi, n. sp. 
By Geore Semper, 
[Read 4th December, 1865.] 
Papilio Godeffroyi. 
(Plate XXIV. fig. 1, 3; fig. 2, 9). 
Pap. alis caudatis; $ nigro-fuscis ; anticis striga apicali albido- 
sulphurea ; posticis supra fascia virescenti-flavida, subtus 
lunulis septem cceruleis, maculisque submarginalibus rufes- 
centibus; 2 fuscis, fascia anticis albido-sulphurea, posticis 
virescenti-flavida, subtus omnibus alba, lunulis septem 
coeruleis, alterisque submarginalibus rufis. 
Exp. al. g 9895); 9 ¢99"Met 116"2; 
Hab. Upolu, Samoa Islands. 
Male.— Upperside glossy black ; fore-ning with a short curved 
band of six yellowish spots near the apex, and irrorated with some 
yellowish atoms in the discoidal cell and along the exterior 
margin ; hind-ning tailed, with a transverse outwardly-sinuated 
yellowish-green fascia, irrorated with black atoms, and connected 
at the anal angle with an ill-defined red-brown lunule; the space 
between the sinuous band and the exterior margin is irrorated 
with some bluish atoms. Underside black ; fore-wing having the 
curved band paler and irrorated near the posterior angle with 
bluish-white atoms; Aind-nwing with a fascia of seven lunules of 
bluish atoms, and a series of seven pale rufous lunules parallel to 
the exterior margin, the one at the anal angle touching the bluish 
fascia ; indentations on the upperside pale-yellowish, on the under- 
side white. 
Female,— Upperside dark-brown ; fore-wing witha transverse fascia 
of yellowish spots from the anterior to the posterior margin, the 
six first like those of the male, but larger, the other five parallel 
to the exterior margin ; irrorated along the exterior margin and in 
the discoidal cell with yellowish atoms ; hind-ning tailed, with 
a transverse outwardly-sinuated yellowish-green fascia, margined 
outwardly by a series of seven lunules of bluish atoms, the fifth 
and sixth from the anterior margin being larger than the others; 
near the exterior margin is a series of seven red lunules, the first 
and second from the anterior margin being indicated only by some 
