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NEW FORMS OF INDO-AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES. 



By J. J. JOICEY and G. Talbot. 



PAPILIONIDAE. 



Papilio (Troides) Helena oblong omaculatus Goeze. 

 ab. sordidus ab. nov. 



S' . This specimen was in the Grose-Smith Collection labelled 

 " Grosesmithi type " in Grose-Smith's writing, with the locality " New 

 Guinea." We cannot trace any published description. The name 

 "Grosesmithi" cannot be used as it is now preoccupied in African 

 Papilios. 



This specimen is more likely to have come from the Moluccas than 

 from New Guinea. 



Hind wing markings as in oblong omaculatus ; cell-patch indented at 

 the base, post-cellular patches in 2 and 3 shorter ; patch in 4 absent, 

 only a thin yellow edging to the veins, the right wing with basal part 

 of this patch present ; patch in 5 more indented on its edge and bearing 

 a smudge of black ; patch in 6 rounded outwardly ; end of cell with a 

 smudgy black spot and some scattered black scaling. 



Underside of hind wing without black smudges, patches 2-5 more 

 produced on the veins than in typical form, and their outer edges with 

 diffuse greenish dusting. 



Papilio polydorus Schoutensis subsp. nov. 



Intermediate between the Waigeu and Mefor races. 



S- . Upperside of fore wing with more grey scaling than in either of 

 the allied forms. Hind wing with the outer edges of the discal spots 

 less sharply defined than in the other forms ; red anal spots indistinct 

 as in the Waigeu form. 



Underside of hind wing with a small white spot in 6 placed on the 

 edge of the red spot, and some slight white scaling on the edge of the 

 red spot in 7 ; in one specimen there are only faint traces of these 

 white marks. 



