﻿PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  UNITED 
  STATES 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  issued 
  |i^lVA.O!li 
  hy 
  the 
  

  

  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION 
  

  

  U. 
  S. 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Vol. 
  98 
  Washington: 
  1948 
  No. 
  3227 
  

  

  THE 
  BUTTERFLIES 
  OF 
  THE 
  ADMIRALTY 
  ISLANDS 
  

  

  By 
  Warren 
  Herbert 
  Wagner, 
  Jr., 
  and 
  David 
  F. 
  Grether 
  

  

  At 
  the 
  suggestion 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  encouragement 
  of 
  Austin 
  H. 
  Clark, 
  

   of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum, 
  we 
  made 
  a 
  joint 
  collection 
  of 
  

   about 
  200 
  butterflies 
  while 
  we 
  were 
  in 
  the 
  Admiralty 
  Islands, 
  the 
  

   species 
  represented 
  including 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  new 
  records 
  for 
  the 
  group. 
  

   The 
  collection 
  was 
  made 
  while 
  we 
  were 
  flying 
  with 
  the 
  Naval 
  Air 
  

   Transport 
  Service 
  during 
  lay-overs 
  at 
  Momote 
  Airstrip 
  on 
  Los 
  Negros 
  

   Island 
  late 
  in 
  1944 
  and 
  in 
  1945; 
  on 
  Manus 
  in 
  May, 
  November, 
  and 
  

   December 
  1945 
  ; 
  and 
  on 
  Lou 
  Island 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  November 
  1945. 
  

   There 
  are 
  no 
  published 
  records 
  of 
  any 
  species 
  from 
  either 
  Los 
  Negros 
  

   or 
  Lou 
  Islands, 
  or 
  from 
  the 
  interior 
  of 
  Manus. 
  

  

  The 
  Admiralty 
  Islands 
  are 
  located 
  west 
  of 
  New 
  Ireland 
  and 
  north- 
  

   west 
  of 
  New 
  Britain 
  in 
  the 
  Bismarck 
  Archipelago 
  at 
  approximately 
  

   latitude 
  2° 
  S. 
  and 
  longitude 
  147° 
  to 
  148° 
  E. 
  There 
  are 
  numerous 
  small 
  

   islands 
  in 
  the 
  group 
  clustering 
  closely 
  about 
  the 
  main 
  island 
  of 
  

   Manus, 
  which 
  is 
  55 
  miles 
  long 
  by 
  16 
  wide 
  and 
  lies 
  east 
  and 
  west. 
  

   The 
  highest 
  altitude 
  on 
  Manus 
  is 
  2,359 
  feet. 
  All 
  the 
  islands 
  are 
  

   heavily 
  forested 
  except 
  where 
  they 
  have 
  been 
  burned 
  over 
  or 
  cleared 
  

   by 
  man 
  for 
  coconut 
  groves 
  and 
  villages. 
  Los 
  Negros 
  is 
  a 
  small 
  coral 
  

   island 
  just 
  to 
  the 
  east 
  of 
  Manus 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  narrow 
  

   channel. 
  

  

  Until 
  about 
  three 
  decades 
  ago 
  the 
  natives 
  of 
  the 
  Admiralty 
  Islands 
  

   were 
  so 
  hostile 
  to 
  strangers 
  that 
  few 
  collections 
  had 
  been 
  made 
  there. 
  

   The 
  Challenger 
  expedition 
  obtained 
  a 
  few 
  specimens 
  of 
  a 
  single 
  species 
  

  

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