﻿POMPEOPTERA HIPPOLYTUS. 



2nd Subspecies or Variety, Cellularis, Rothschild. 



Troides Hippolytns Cellularis, Rothschild, Novitates Zoologies, pp. 202-3. 



<? Anterior wings more rounded at the apical angle 

 than in the other forms ; black with satiny blue-green 

 sheen ; the adnervular rays subdued purplish-white 

 shaded into the black towards the outer margin ; the cell 

 rather broader at the discal end than in the var. Sulaensis. 

 Underside a more dead black ; all the white rays, and the 

 white margins in the cell more white and prominent. 



Posterior wings with the cell somewhat different from 

 that of Sulaensis or of the type, in form ; the yellow band a 

 lighter yellow than in Sulaensis, more like that of the type 

 in outline, but not quite so extensive as in the type or 

 Sulaensis ; the cell and disc with the colour nearly as in 

 Sulaensis. Under surface, more like the type form in 

 pattern and colours ; with yellow white atoms in the 

 precostal cell. 



Head, antennas and thorax intense black ; eyes brown ; 

 abdomen with the black marks occupying more of each 

 segment than in the other forms, and the yellow parts on the 

 dorsum quite an orange yellow ; laterally golden yellow, 

 and subdorsum and anal valves grey white. Abdomen 35 

 and antennas 31 mms. ; respectively; thorax with head 

 25 mms. 



Anterior wing : length of costa, 84 mms. ; of outer 

 margin, about 63 mms. ; of inner margin, 46 mms. ; width 

 of wing at the base, 6 mms. ; greatest length of posterior 

 wing, 50 mms. ; greatest width, 40 mms. 



Length 

 of legs: 



istpair: femur, 10 ; tibia, g ; tarsi, 12 mms. 

 2nd ,, ,, 12 ; ,, 16 ; ,, 16 ,, 



3rd ,, ,, 12; ,, 13; ,, 18 ,, 



Habitat, S. Celebes (Doherty). 



2 Anterior wing more rounded at the apical angle than 

 in the type form ; wing broader and less long than in the 

 type form ; the cell longer and narrower than in the type 



form ; the white adnervular rays a little more conspicuous 

 and white than in Sulaensis, much more so than in the type 

 form ; the rays on the discal end of the cell also more 

 prominent than in either of the other forms ; under surface 

 differs only very slightly from the upper. 



Posterior wings : the cell very different in form, and 

 narrower than in the other forms ; pattern and colours most 

 like that of the type form, but with no yellow tinting in 

 the white of the internervular spaces from the 1st submedian 

 branch to the abdominal margin, but abundant scaling. 

 Under surface like that above in pattern and colour — 

 the white areas being tinted with greenish blue. 



Head, antennae and thorax black, eyes brown ; abdomen 

 bluish grey and white, with a slight lateral tinting of 

 yellow ; and segment rufous ; subdorsum with the articu- 

 lations almost entirely black. 



Length of costa, 95 mms. ; of outer margin, 64 mms. ; 

 of inner margin, 53 mms. ; width of wing at the base, 7 

 mms. ; greatest length of hind wing, 60 mms. ; greatest 

 width, 40 mms. 



Length of thorax with head, 26 mms. ; of abdomen or 

 antennae, 35 mms. 



Length \ 

 of legs : J 



1st pair: 11; tibia, 9; tarsi, 14 mms. 

 2nd ,, 14; ,, 14 ; ,, 19 ,, 

 3rd ,, 12; ,, 13; ,, 20 



Habitat, Toli Toli, N. Celebes. 



This variety merits a position probably intermediate 

 between the type and Sulaensis. Its most distinct and 

 conspicuous difference from them is certainly in the 

 remarkable form of the posterior cell of the 2 . 



Possibly several other varieties of Hippolytus will yet 

 reach us from the other islands of the Celebesan Seas. 



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