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that it looked to have brilliant yellow tails. But I 

 noticed that in old specimens, along the fore margin 

 of the fore-wing the gold turns to bluish green, on 

 account of sun or weather. 



Afterwards the natives brought in four males of the 

 common Ornithoptera, thus giving a standard of 

 comparison and clearing up any doubts, and a female 

 of the great banded Ornithoptera chimcera. I got one 

 egg from her, but could not find any Aristolochia there 

 to rear the larva on. Another addition to the collec- 

 tion here was a large " owl " butterfly, of chocolate 

 colour. It had two large eyes on the underside of the 

 hind-wing, and a large eye and two small ones on 

 the top side of the hind-wing, exactly like the eyes 

 of the "peacock " butterfly of England. It also had 

 another similar eye in the tip of each fore- wing with 

 a wide cream of yellow band across the fore-wing. 

 It reminded me of the South American butterflies, 

 but was not so large. 1 



There was yet another white butterfly found there, 

 which seemed to be of a new genus, and several hand- 

 some day-flying moths, making six species of day- 

 fliers not before taken by me. But the Ornithoptera 

 male alone was worth coming for. It was the most 

 handsome and largest Ornithoptera I had ever seen. 



Still the run of good luck continued. There 



1 Mr. Meek found here two new species of Morphopsis, M. 

 meeki and M. ula; both described in Nov. Zoo/., 1905, pp. 454 

 and 456, and figured, loc. cit., 1906, PI. III. K. J. 



