wing. Otherwise, on the upper wings at least, the pattern 

 is arranged pretty much after the same plan. There are 

 some important differences in the thorax and dorsal 

 portion of the abdomen, though the latter is probably 

 only a specific difference. Antennae not so stout as in 

 Ornithoptera ; an inner curvature is found near their 



apex, somewhat different from what is seen in other 

 Ornithoptera, especially in the 2 . 



The femora of the legs in both sexes are broader and 

 flatter than in the other genera ; and the length of tarsal 

 joints longer in proportion than in iETHEOPTERA. 



SCHOENBERGIA PARADISEA. 



Ornithoptera Paradisea, Staudinger, Entomologische Nachrichten 1S93. s. 177. 

 „ „ „ Iris, Jan. 1894, p. 350. Band 6, PI. 6, f. I. 



Ornithoptera Schoenbergi, Pagtnstecher, Jahrbuchen der Nassauischen Vereins ffir Naturkunde, 1893, s. 29 pp., Taf. II., n. III. ( <? ), s. 83 pp., Taf. IV. ? Anfang, October ? 

 1893. " Beitrage Zur Lepidopteren — Fauna der Malayischer Archipels." 

 „ „ Pagtu. Description, p. 30, PI. 2, 3, $ ; 4, 2 ■ 



0. (Schoenbergia) Paradisea, Pagenstecher. (Treated as a subgenus.) 



Since the discovery of the ^ of i€. Victories, by Mr. 

 Woodford a few years ago, no Ornithoptera, and perhaps 

 no butterfly known to science is at once so beautiful and 

 so interesting as the 6* of this extraordinary and glorious 

 species. Hitherto no Ornithoptera had been found with 

 a caudal prolongation of the hind wings — although there 

 was no reason why such a form might not exist, and it 

 was what an observing and reflecting Entomologist might 

 have expected, for seeing that so large a number of the 

 Papilionincz are tailed, and that the same, or at least 

 very closely allied, species in many cases are tailed 

 or without tails according as they are found on the 

 continent or a small island, or according as they are more 

 east or west of each other, (and that we have dimorphic 

 and polymorphic forms belonging to the same species and 

 in the same locality exhibiting these differences) : we say 

 then that it is not so remarkable that the Ornithoptera 

 should furnish us with an example of this phenomenon. 

 Probably other tailed forms will yet come from the 

 interior of New Guinea, or from some of the Solomon, 

 New Hebridean, or Malayan islets. _ As we shall yet 

 have to regard the PapilionincB belonging to the red and 

 black, and green and black, groups of South and Central 

 America, as a second division of the Ornithoptera, which 

 I propose to call Ornithopterina or Ornithopterina and as 

 these are generally understood to come in our classification 

 immediately after the Ornithoptera— we at once see that 

 tailed forms are not such rare phenomena as at first might 

 be supposed, for the ? ? of some of the Ornithopterina 

 are tailed. 



In the present case it is the $ that possesses the 

 caudal prolongation of wing; but I am inclined to think 

 that the 5 ? of this, and of the genera Ornithoptera 

 and yETHEOPTERA are intended to resemble in some 

 degree some other species of butterflies, or of moths, or 

 possibly even of Birds, for the purpose of protection. In 

 my diagnosis of the Genus Schoenbergia (for I have felt 

 justified in raising Pagenstecher's subgenus to full generic 

 rank) the more important structural characters are given. 

 The following are therefore the decorative and other 

 characters of this species : — 



S . Anterior wings deep velvety black, in_ which the 

 veins, except the median, are not so conspicuous. A 



subcostal green stripe extends from the base to a little 

 over half way of the costa, separated, but narrowly, from 

 a very broad golden green subcostal patch or band 

 which extends from near the base within the discoidal 

 cell, gradually broadening till it reaches to within 16 

 mms. of the apical angle, where it curves above and below 

 gradually to 2 mms. of the apex ; the whole patch or 

 band is graduated off, more especially within the cell, by 

 golden yellow atoms ; portions of the subcostal nervure, 

 the 3rd, 4th, and 5th subcostal nervules, with the first 

 discocellular nervule, visible in the green— the subcostal 

 vein and its 4th branch being especially defined in black ; 

 a large discal patch of golden-yellowish-green begins 

 narrowly at the base, filling all the space between the 3rd 

 median branch and the submedian nervure to within 6 

 mms. of the outer margin, — also less and less of the spaces 

 bounded by the 3rd median and the 2nd discoidal 

 branches — receding from the median and outer margin 

 more and more till it almost becomes a point— each 

 division being curved inwardly from the outer margin and 

 irregularly from the side of the median nervure, with 

 much beautiful graduation by green atoms on the black, 

 and black atoms scattered on the green ; a golden yellow 

 band beginning at the base in union with the above patch 

 includes the precostal nervure and extends nearly 2-3rds 

 of that part of the wing till it becomes a mere point, 

 ending with a few green atoms— its broadest about 2-5 

 mms. ; on the black which divides it from the discal 

 green patch are scattered a few golden green atoms. The 

 anterior wing is nearly subtriangulate, or more correctly, 

 subscalene-triangular, the outline of the wing being a 

 close suggestion of the outline of the shell of the 

 molluscous genus Pinna, especially one of the Japanese 

 species— being very narrow at the base and broad at the 

 outer margin; the outer margin curves somewhat irre- 

 gularly, being a little convex in the middle where the 1st 

 and 2nd median branches terminate, curving inwardly 

 and prominently between the terminals of the 3rd and 

 4th median branches, and the submedian vein ; the outer 

 margin without white lunules ; the anterior margin nearly 

 straight. 



Posterior wings smaller in proportion than the anterior, 

 the costa sufficiently arched, and only a little more than 

 half the length of the interior margin of the upper wing, 



