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POMPEOPTERA DOHERTYI. 



Additional Bibliographical References to Page 67. 



Ornithoptera Dohertyi, W. F. Kirby, Nature, V. 51, p. 255 (1895). 

 Troides Dohertyi, Rothschild, Novitates Zoologicse, V. II., p. 227. n. tz (1895). 

 Papilio Yordermanni, Snellen, Tijdschr, V. Ent. xxxvii., p. 191 (June, 1895). 



POMPEOPTERA DOHERTYI. 

 Var. fasciculatus, Rothschild. 



<? . Anterior wings exactly like those of the type form. 

 Posterior wings also like those of the type. Under 

 surface of anterior wing, with the cell, costa and subcosta,. 

 and all the area below the 3rd submedian branch black ; 

 the remainder of the disc dull grey white, tinted with 

 black green, shaded towards the cell with black atoms, 

 and also into the very narrow outer marginal black by 

 similar atoms. Posterior wings, similar to those of the 

 type form, except that the yellow discal band is much 

 broader, and purer, and faint spots composed of grey yellow 

 atoms are on the black of the last two divisions of the sub- 

 marginal border. The colours of the abdomen vary very 

 little from those in the type form. Length of costa 

 63 mms. 



2 . Anterior wings rufous-brown ; the distal 3rd of 

 the cell, dull ochraceous grey, almost shaded into brown ; 

 all the disc except i-3rd between the 2nd-3rd median 

 branches, and nearly the whole of the rest of the wing 

 below this, with the same subdued ochraceous rufous- 

 greenish-grey tint, almost clouded into the upper part of 

 the wing by rufous-brown ; the outer margin very narrow 

 and brown, interrupted by the ochraceous fringe lunations. 

 Posterior wing dark rufous-brown, with two small rufous- 

 yellow spots close to the cell, and the greater part of the 

 submedian fold and abdominal-marginal space rufous- 

 yellow, the fringe lunules and submarginal cloudings of 

 the same tint, produced by light atoms. Under surface 

 of anterior wing, with the disc (all but a portion of the 

 area below the 2nd median branch), a silky (somewhat 

 luminous) rufous-yellow-white ; and with the distal 3rd 



of the cell of the same colour ; the rest of the wing rufous- 

 brown. Posterior wing silky dark brown ; with distal 1-3M 

 of cell and a nebulous light discal cloud from the outer side 

 of the 3rd median branch to the 1st discocellular nervule 

 (and occupying nearly or quite i-4th of each internervular 

 space) all composed of rufous light-ochraceous atoms ; 

 also with a broad clouded submarginal band of rufous 

 ochraceous white ; the submedian fold and part of the 

 abdominal margin streaked with the same tints. 



Head, antennae and thorax black ; eyes rufous-brown > 

 abdomen with dorsal broad rufous-brown, bordered by 

 dull rufous-white ; lateral portions a little more ochraceous 

 — the lateral black dots larger than usual, and the sub- 

 dorsum quite dark brown. The eyes in both sexes under- 

 lined with red, and the lateral red spots of the thorax as 

 usual also in each sex. 



Length of costa 75 mms. ; greatest length of posterior 

 wing 58 mms. ; greatest width 37 mms. Length of thorax 

 with head 22 mms. ; and of abdomen or antennae 28 mms. 



Habitat, Waterstradt, Talaut Islands. PI. 64A, Figs. 

 1 6* , 2, 3 ? . 



The ? is almost entirely like the variety figured on pl. 

 64, fig. 6, so far as the underside is concerned ; and 

 appears to be a representative of my 3rd type of variety 

 of the species. It is also sufficiently distinct from all the 

 other varieties to constitute a sub-species of Dohertyi. 



