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the Engineer Group, where I captured a number, 

 the females run nearly black, having generally black 

 f orewings, while the females of the insect at St. Aignan 

 resembled the females of urvilliana so much that I 

 could detect no difference, except perhaps the former 

 were slightly smaller. I also obtained larvae and 

 pupae. They resembled the larvae of the Queensland 

 insect, having semi-transparent red spikes. The larvae 

 of the Fergusson Island insect differed -from the St. 

 Aignan insects in having no bright colours. 



My observations inclined me to the opinion that 

 there are two species of blue Orniihoptera, but I couldn't 

 be certain until I had more specimens to examine ; I 

 had about fourteen females and three males. I found 

 out that the females were of two distinct sizes and of 

 the males, two are equally large, while the third is 

 much smaller and a trifle darker. The sizes resemble 

 a large richmondia and an ordinary cassandira. The 

 smaller males are slightly darker in colour, and one 

 has two small yellow marks near the outside of the 

 hindwings. 1 



The Cuscus on St. Aignan rather reversed the 

 order of things in having a brown male and dark 

 steel-grey female. 2 



1 These differences are merely individual. K. J. 



2 Mr. Meek collected sixty-five species of birds on St. Aignan, 

 among them a new Flycatcher (Gerygone rosseliana onerosa), a new 

 White-eye (Zosterops aignani}, a new form of long-tailed dove 

 (Macropygia doreya cunctatd), and other rare species only found 

 in the Louisiade group of islands. E. H. 



