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spots on the edge of the underwing, also a long gold 

 spot near the base of the underwing, and has a longer 

 and narrower fore- wing than the other species ; also 

 the space of black between the golden bars is 

 narrower. The hind- wing is very much brighter, 

 being of a bright satiny green while the other is 

 shaded with black. There is also a big difference in 

 the shape of the hind-wing, the latter being larger 

 and more angular, while the other seems perfectly 

 round. 



Then I found what I took for a fifth species of 

 Ornithoptera. 1 It was very small, about the same 

 size as Paradisea but almost identical, so far as my 

 recollection went, with richmondia. It had blue- 

 tinted green hind-wings, the green vein in fore-wing 

 was completely absent, and it was altogether different 

 from the others. I only got the one specimen. It 

 was brought to me by one of my boys (not a collector) 

 wrapped up in a green leaf. It was raining hard and 

 he had to swim a big river with it. It was a newly 

 hatched specimen. 



All the butterflies are found near the creeks. I 

 suppose it is because it is warmer at night there. I 

 sent collectors up the mountain until I was tired ; they 

 never got anything. It was in the gullies and creeks 

 the butterflies were found. The Delias fly up and 

 down the creeks about twelve feet off the ground and 



1 These specimens belong to Papilio priamus poseidon, Doubl 

 (1847), which varies very much in both sexes. K. J. 



