126 Count T. Salvadori—wWNotes 
Geoffroyus personatus orientalis Rothsch. & Hartert, Nov. 
Zool. viii. p. 84 (1901) (Huon Gulf). 
Allied to G. aruensis. 
I have received from Dr. Madarasz two specimens of this 
species for examination. 
The male is almost undistinguishable from its Aruan 
relative, the ,blue of the head is perhaps less violet. I do 
not see that the brown cubital patch is paler. 
The female has the brown of the head above with a bluish 
shade; whether the cubital brown spot is paler than in the 
female of G. arwensis I cannot say, having no female of the 
latter at hand for comparison. 
Hab. Huon Gulf (N.E. New Guinea). 
A doubtful species in my opinion, also according to 
Rothschild and Hartert. 
Grorrroyus supEsTIENSIs De Vis; Sharpe, Hand-list, i. 
pees, / (1900); 
Geoffroyus aruensis sudestiensis Hartert, Nov. Zool. v. 
p- 531 (1898) ; vi. pp. 81, 213 (1899). 
Geoffroyus personatus sudestiensis Rothsch. & Hartert, 
op. cit. vill. p. 84 (Sudest and St. Aignan Islands in the 
Louisiade Group) (1901). 
“Closely allied to aruensis, but differing in the total 
absence of a reddish-brown spot near the shoulders.” 
(Rothsch. & Hartert.) 
GroFrrRoyus cYANIcARPUS Hartert ; Sharpe, Hand-list, u. 
p- 28, n. 5 (1901). 
Geoffroyus aruensis cyanicarpus Hartert, Nov. Zool. vi. 
p. 81 (Rossel I.) (1899). 
Geoffroyus personatus cyanicarpus Rothsch. & Hartert, 
op. cit. vill. p. 84 (1901). 
“The males of the Geoffroyus from Rossel Island agree 
with G. aruensis sudestiensis De Vis in the absence of the 
reddish-brown patch on the wing-coverts; but they differ 
from both G. aruensis aruensis and G. aruensis sudestiensis 
in having the whole edge of the wing from the bend to the 
