348 Mr. A. R. Wallace's Notes 



Expanse 2*6 inches. 



Hab. — Sula Island, Celebes group (Wallace) . 



A local form of C. Paulinus, but differs in characters 

 which in that species seem constant in a large number of 

 specimens. 



Genus Parthenos^ Hiibner. 



This genus consists of three large and handsome but- 

 terflies of the Malay Archipelago, all tolerably abundant 

 in the islands they inhabit^ but not easy to obtain in fine 

 condition. 



1. P. Gamhrisius, Fabr. 



2. P. Sylvia, Cram. 



3. P. tigrina, Voll. 



ludia, Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo 



(Wall.). 

 Java, Celebes, Sula Is., Batchian, 



Ceram, Ke Islands (Wall.); Pe- 



naug (Cantor). 

 New Guinea, Mysol, Waigiou 



(Wall.). 



Parthenos tigrina. 

 c? . Vollenh. Tijd. Ent. 1866, p. 210, pi. x. fig. 2. 



Female. Differs only in having the submarginal lines 

 and longitudinal stripes faintly indicated on the black 

 ground. In one specimen from New Guinea, the pearly 

 white spots are obsolete, while the markings on the outer 

 half of the wings are a little more distinct. 



Expanse 3' 9 inches. 



Hab. — New Guinea, Mysol, Waigiou (Wallace) . 



Genus Euripus, Doubleday. 



EURIPUS ROBUSTUS, n. s. 



Much larger than E. Halitherses, the median tooth of 

 the hind-wings shorter and more oblique, the anal tooth 

 wanting. 



Male. Above : brown-black, on the anterior wings a 

 marginal and submarginal row of elongate spots, in pairs, 

 dusky and indistinct, basal and discal spots arranged as 

 in E. Halitherses, but less defined. Hind- wings with the 



