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Additional Localities of Species and Varieties belonging to Vol. I., and also to New Species or 

 Varieties Discovered since that Vol. was Completed. 



Schoenbergia Titan 



Sch. Goliath 



Sch. (Phalaenosoma) 



Chimaera 



Sch. Paradisea, ah. auriflua 

 ,, ,, type form .... 



Sch. Meridionalis 



,, ,, type form .... 



Ornithoptera Aruana 



v. Obiensis 



O. Croesus 



Kapa Kapa, British New 

 Guinea, Aroa River. 

 Geelvink Bay, Dutch N. 

 Guinea. 



North end of the Aroa River, 

 British New Guinea. 

 Kaiser Wilhelmsland. 

 Constantinhafen,Binga (Ger- 

 man N. Guinea), Finisterre 

 Mountains. 

 Upper Aroa River. 

 Kiriwini, Fergusson Island, 

 Milne Bay, Mailu, Brown 

 River (N. Guinea), Kapaur. 



Oby Island.* 

 Batjan, Oby. 



O. Urvilliana 



O. Cassandra 



O. Poseidon var. Pronomus 



O. Poseidon 

 O. Pegasus .... 



Alu (Shortland Islands), Ren- 

 dova, Kei Toeal, Salawatti, 

 Ysabel Island, Treasury 

 Island, Bougainville, Gua- 

 dalcanal 



Little Mulgrave River, 

 Queensland. 



Teoor, Simbang, Sorong 

 (Dutch New Guinea), Mysol, 

 Constantinhafen, Cooktown 

 (Queensland). 



Fergusson Island, Engineer 

 Group, Milne Bay, Mailu, 

 Mausinam (Dutch N.Guinea), 

 Kapaur, Aru, Tenimber, Kei, 

 Dj am pier Isle. 

 .. Simbang, N. Guinea. 



The Solomon Island Lepidoptera are distinctly Malayan in type, closely allied to those of the eastern 

 Archipelago, some of them only island forms, modified by long isolation ; but the members of the genus ^theoptera 

 are exceedingly distinct in type from any found in Malaya, and though superficially they seem to be closely allied to 

 those of the New Guinea genus Schoenbergia, are yet only distantly related to them. The island of Guadalcanar is one 

 of the most fertile and beautiful islands of the group according to Woodford, who spent some time there in 

 collecting and studying its productions, and is rich in bird and insect life— many species of the different orders being 

 peculiar to it, notwithstanding the fact noted above. Its length is about 80 and breadth 30 miles. The highest 

 mountain summits reach 8,000 feet, and there are numerous peaks over 4,000 feet high. The rainfall, over 

 100 inches per annum in the east, and possibly much more still in the mountains, is responsible for the existence of 

 numerous rivers, some of them of considerable size. An alluvial flat composed of fertile soil extends for 25 to 30 miles 

 along the centre of the north coast of the island, with a varying width of from 5 to 10 miles. The depth of the sea 

 between the Solomons and New Guinea reaches over 2,000 fathoms, and the highest point of land being as 

 much as 10,000 feet in the island of Bougainville, gives therefore a range of 22,000 feet from the bed of the sea 

 to the summit of the island. The group contains at least 17 species of Bats, 6 of them peculiar to the islands, 

 the others being also found in the Duke of York group, though the latter islands are separated by over 100 miles of this 

 deep sea from the former. 



Of the birds there are many species closely allied to those of New Guinea and its neighbouring islands ; 

 but there are no birds of Paradise yet discovered. Of the Parrots some of the species are peculiar to the Solomons, such 

 as the Cardinal Lory, Lorins Cardinalis ; the pigmy parrots of the genus Nasiterna, among them N. Aola, the 

 smallest known. Among the other special species is a Cockatoo Cacatua Ducorpsii, a Hornbill Rhitidocerus plicatus, 

 several species of large fruit Pigeons, Carpophag^e ; Green and Ground Doves, many species, a Megapodius 

 or Mound Builder, M. Brenchlayi, many species of Kingfishers, Flycatchers, Herons and Raptorial birds. Among the 

 Reptiles are 17 Lizards, of which 7 are not found out of the Archipelago. The Lepidoptera of these islands other than 

 Ornithoptera are numerous. There is a considerable number of Papilios — each island having its own special 

 forms, including Pap. Orsippus of the Ulysses (blue and black) group, and also the Sarpedon, Codrus and ./Egeus 

 group's. The Pieridse are not numerous in species or individuals ; Danaidae are plentiful ; Euploeas common in the 

 forests, and in the foliage fringing the seashore. Almost every island has its own species, as might be expected. The 

 o-enus Hypolinmas is well represented and has many mimics, so are the Nymphalidse generally. There are very few 

 Satyridae, but among them are 3 or 4 species at least of the little butterflies belonging to the exquisitely beautiful genus 

 Argyronympha ; and 2 species of Xois, a genus peculiar to Fiji ! Lycaena are plentiful, and Gela Isle is_ specially rich in 

 beautiful species— some of the less showy ones swarm in every situation. There are very few Hesperidae, but moths 

 are very abundant. The Trobriand Islands, SS.-E. of the extreme south point of New Guinea, together with 

 several other groups of islets near at hand, and where O. Aruana and one or two other Ornithoptera are found, consist 

 a vast number of low, thickly wooded islands covered with a prolific under growth of trees and shrubs and 

 cocoa palms ; and are densely populated by natives who exquisitely carve and design their canoes, and make beautiful 



* Oby Island with its islets has apparently never been inhabited, as it is supposed by the natives of other islands to be haunted. Fishermen for a few days each year 

 encamp there, but no one stays any longer than necessary. 



