( (i()2 ) 



*.lAiCiv)f//"«.( />!ilr;/rl<.;i Boisduval, Sper. Gen. Lep. IIH. i. p. 346. n. 22 (IRTf)) (N. Ouiaea :— coll. 



Charles Oberthuv) ; Kirby, Cut. Lep. Het. i. p. fiSl.n. 27 (1892). 

 *}riici-nghxsa mnlaciUa Boisduval, I.e. p. :U7. n. 2.5 (1875) (Dorey ;— coll. Charles Oberthiir) ; 



Kirby, l.e. n. 25 (18112). 

 "Mucroqlnssa rjiiiiria Boisduval, I.e. p. S.'iO. n. .^0 (1875) (Halmahera ; -coll. Charles Oberthiir); 



Kirby, l.c.'n. 26 (1802). 

 *.Miicrophisx(i riihiirix, Pagenstecher (nan Walker, 1856), Julirli. Xnss. Ver. Xat. xxxvii. p. 210 



(1884) (Amboina) ; id.. I.e. xxxix. p. 112. n. 7 (1886) (Aru) ; id., 7m i. p. 86. n. 7 (1886) 



(Aru) ; id., Jahrh. Nns^. Ver. Nut. xli. p. 100. n. 212 (1888) (Amboina). 

 Mriernqinsm apprrLr'niinux Lucas, The Qiieenxhimler xxxix. p. 834 (1801) (Mackay ; excluding 



abdomen). 

 M.ieeufihmxn Ihieata id., I.e. (1801) (Mackay ; abdomen only!). 



*.yiiei-or/lussa hihrn.^a Swinhoe, Oit. Lep. Het. Mus. 0.t. i. p. 5. ii. 19 (1802) (Burn ;— Mus. Oxford). 

 *.\fiie,-f,ij!ij$.m nxiliieeensis Rothschild, Nnv. Znnr,. i. p. 67 (1804) (partim ; N. Guinea ; Moluccas ; 



— Mus. Tring). 



c? ? . Anal tnfc with about the apical half oraiige-ochraceon.s or pale tawny ; 

 underside of tuft as a rnle as pale yellow as the mesial patches of the abdomen ; 

 side-tufts of third to fifth segments of the same colour as underside of tail, often 

 more yellow at the tips, not white ; middle of breast shaded with ochraceons, 

 base of hindwing more or less yellow. 



The individual variation in our long series of specimens from Little Key 

 and Dutch New Guinea is consideralile, and we have not found a character by 

 which to separate the examples from the Moluccas from those obtained in various 

 other places. But the sjiecimens of one locality taken as a whole are not always 

 identical with the set of specimens from another island. The Mefor individuals, 

 for instance, are more yellow on the underside of the abdomen than most examples 

 from other localities. In British Xew (iuiuea and dependent islands the yellow 

 baud of the hindwing is much reduced even in the females, while the band is 

 more often complete than interrupted on the Southern Moluccas. 



Ildb. Southern and Northern Moluccas ; Key ; Aru ; all over New Guinea 

 and the adjacent islands ; Queensland. 



In the Tring Museum OO-odd specimens from : Halmahera ; Batjan ; Obi ; 

 Bum ; Amboina ; Ceram ; Tiandoe ; Key ; Aru ; Dorey ; Mefor; Kajiaur; Milne 

 B<ay ; AVoodlark ; Queensland. 



('. .1/. cori/f///(s xanfhvni!!: snbsp. nov. 



c??. Close to j'ljlene, especially to the individuals from Mefor. Tail more 

 extended yellow and generally paler ; breast more ochraceons in middle, and 

 pal])ns also shaded with ochraceons, being much less greyish white than in the 

 other forms. 



Hah. Tenimber Islands. 



In the Tring Museum 8 iS, lu ?? from: Larat (Kiihn, tape); Scira 

 (= Sjerra), vi. vii. (Doherty) ; Selaru, iii. iv. (Micholitz). 



/'. M. coriithiix fuhicmiilnta. 



* Maeroijlmm fulvicaudaia Butler, Ann. Mwj. N. 11. (5). x. p. 155 (1882) (N. Britain ;— Mus. Brit.); 

 Driice, Pmc. Ziml. Soe. Loncl. p. 571. n. 1 (1888) (Ada, Guadalc.) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Itel. i. 

 p. 6.32. n. 46 (1802) ; Pageust., in Chun, y.n„lngim xii. 29. p. 18. n. 18 (1900) (N. Pommern). 



S ? . Side-jiatches 2 and ^^ of abdomen large, anal tuft as extended yellow 

 as in xantlmru.'^, breast and all the tibiae ochraceons, abdomen below more or 

 less extended yellow ; basal area C— (SM') of liindwing yellow as far its first 

 discal line, this colour sometimes reaching second line behind cell. 



