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EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIII. 



Fig. 1. Frontodes (g. n.) brevicornis, sp. n. 



Fig. 2. Ancyloenemis (g. n.) fasciculata, sp. n. 



Fig. 3. Xiphaspis (g. n.) longielavis, sp. n. 



7'Vr/. 4. Ditto. Antenna. 



-FY//. 5. Ditto. Side view. 



FYy. G. Iphisomus manicanus, sp. n. 



-FY*/. 7. llliytirrhinus lobaticollis, sp. n. 



.FY//. 8. Ditto. Side view of head and thorax. 



Fig. 9. Fnicoderus latifrons, sp. n., c?. 



7'7//. 10. Ditto. Side view of head and thorax. 



.FY?. 11. Alcides lixtformis, sp. n. 



.Ffy. 12. Systates sexspinosus, sp. n., cT- 



XLIII. — iV<??y Rhopalocera from Central Ceram. 

 By George Talbot, F.E.S. 



[Plates XIV.-XIX.] 



EARLY in 3 919 Mr. J. J. Joicey sent three collectors to the 

 East, in the persons of Messrs. Felix, Charles, and James 

 Pratt. The two first-named had already had considerable 

 experience of tropical collecting. It was decided that they 

 should attempt to reach the higher slopes of the mountains 

 in the interior of Ceram, and, if successful, to spend a few 

 months making collections of Lepidoptera for the Hill 

 Museum. 



After much difficulty the three brothers established a camp 

 on the Manusela Range at 6000 feet, and were, able to start 

 collecting in October. The first collection made during 

 October and November contained a few striking novelties, 

 and these we describe, in the present paper. A much larger 

 collection of about 15,000 specimens is on its way to us, and 

 consists largely of moths. 



Messrs. Pratt, have recently left Ceram for Dutch New 

 Guinea, where the search for Lepidoptera is to be carried on 

 in an almost unknown territory. 



The types of the forms here described are in the Hill 

 Museum, Witley. 



Troides proms, Roths., <J . (PI. XIV. fig. 1, <J ; 

 PI. XV. fig. 2, ? .) 



Troides procus, Rothschild, Nov. Zool. xxi. p. 262 (1914) (interior of 

 Ceram), §. 



The male of this magnificent species is the most interesting 

 discovery made by Messrs. Pratt on Ceram. Although the 

 colour and pattern exhibits a relationship to the goliath group 



