422 Mr. A. G. Butler on the 



preceding are varieties of one species ; nor can I admit, with- 

 out further evidence than the statement of his collector as to a 

 single pair taken by him in copula, that A. zamboanga and 

 A. asterope are both females of A* domitia. If one of these 

 prove to be the female of A. domitia , it will be sufficiently 

 curious, since the males of the two nearly allied species A. 

 nero and A. Jigulina have females only differing from them- 

 selves in the presence of black borders to the wings and a 

 broken black band on the primaries. Of these sexes there 

 can be no question, though as species they differ in characters 

 less marked than those existing between A. domitia and A. 

 mindanensis — both also occurring commonly at Malacca, as 

 the latter species do in Mindanao : the females, although 

 less common than the males, agree with them in tint and in 

 under-surface characters ; both are marked with black above, 

 as in my figure of A. jigulina. 



Now, if M. Semper still believes A. zamboanga (not to 

 mention A. asterope) to be the true female of A* domitia, he 

 must (holding the views which he has expressed as to the varia- 

 bility of that species) admit, at any rate, the total distinctness 

 of A. nero, and obliterate from his paper the following words: — 

 u Mehr Licht hieriiber kann erst das Bekanntwerden des ? 

 von Nero Fabr. geben, wofiir ich Jigulina Butler, von der 

 ich kiirzlich im Neuchateler Museum ein Exemplar ohne 

 Abdomen gesehen habe, nicht halten kann ;" since he will 

 certainly regard A. Jigulina as only a vermilion-coloured and 

 moie heavily banded form of the blood-red A. nero. 



PaPILIONIKjE. 



76. Ornithoptera armaria. 



Ornithoptera armaria, Felder, Wien. ent. Monatsclir. iii. p. 391. n. 3:2 



(1859;. 



? • Aru. 



77. P< ipilio go , dio n . 



Papilio gordion, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. i. p. 66. n. 60 (1865). 



Pasananca valley, Mindanao. 



78. Papilio idceoides. 



Papilio ceoid£8, Hewiteon, Exot. Butt. i. Orn. <§• Pap. pi. i. %• 2 

 (1855). 



Pasananca valley, Mindanao. 



