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The following beautiful varieties of the ? of Schoen- 

 bergia Paradisia have been discovered since my Plate IV. 

 was published. The types of these varieties are in the 

 exceptionally rich museum of Mr. Rothschild, at Tring, 



who described them. Figures of these varieties will be 

 found on PL IVa of this work. All these figures are 

 drawn from Mr. Rothschild's types. 



i. Schoenbergia Paradisea, V. Meridionalis. 

 Troides Paradiseus Meridionalis, Rothschild. " Novitates Zoologies." 



5 Primary wings intensely black-brown and velvety. 

 The disco-cellular mark intensely white, with a faint bluish 

 tinge, occupying rather more than I -4th of the cell — the 

 inner edge nearly straight, though slightly undulate, the 

 outer edge with a deep indentation by the black of the 

 wing ; not graduated by dark-brown atoms as in the 

 normal form in PL IV. The outer marginal band of 

 spots— whereof the first 3 are large and only narrowly 

 divided by the 4th and 5th subcostal nervules : the next 

 two smaller, wedge-shaped, and farther apart, entirely 

 subdued by atoms or scaling: the 6th and 7th still 

 smaller, and the 8th and 9th smallest of all—these are 

 all subdued by the atoms ; two large discal bluish-white 

 marks between the 1st and 3rd median nervules, and a 

 small, narrow, elongated white mark just below the 3rd 

 median nervule ; a faint clouding of bluish-white atoms 

 in the cell, extending from the base to the white discocellu- 

 lar patch, on the upper part of its area. Secondary wings 

 deep velvety brown-black ; a discal area of bluish-white and 

 vivid golden-yellow, very narrow at the costa, but so 

 broad towards the inner margin as to almost fill up the 

 entire space between 4 of the nervules and the lower 4th 

 of the cell, extends from the anterior to the anal angle, 

 and contains 5 suborbicular black spots — the 5th on the 



abdominal margin being the largest — and confluent with 

 a black streak without the submedian nervure. All the 

 light space above the black spots is white, almost untouched 

 by dark atoms ; below them the yellow band is so 

 subdued by a dense scaling of brown atoms, except on 

 the two upper divisions, as to present almost a dull olive 

 green tint. The black marginal border is rather broader 

 than in the normal form. Under-surface similar to the 

 upper, except in the presence of a white narrow scaling 

 between the 1st and 2nd, and two narrow white patches 

 of scaling between the 2nd and 3rd subcostal nervules, 

 and that the yellow and white portions of the secondary 

 wings are very pure in colour. 



The abdomen is greenish-yellow above — more golden- 

 yellow below. 



Length of Costa, 79 mms. ; greatest width of wing, 56 

 mms. ; width of hind wing, 31 mms. ; length, 51 mms. 

 Length of abdomen or antennae, 32, and of thorax with 

 head, 18 mms. 



Hab. Mailu, British New Guinea. 



2. Sch. Paradisea, V. Flavescens. 

 Troidei Paradiseus Flavescens, Rothschild 



? . Anterior wings very dark velvety black, with a 

 faint purplish blush viewed obliquely ; the discocellular 

 white patch occupies less than i-5th of the cell, and is 

 very irregular in shape, slightly scaled at the outer edge, 

 and graduated to the black by a slight clouding of grey 

 atoms on the upper inner part of the cell ; all the 9 

 submarginal light marks, except the upper three (and 

 these partially), are subdued by grey atoms or scales 

 more like those of the type form, as are the 2 discal small 

 white spots. Posterior wings velvety black ; the light 

 area not quite so extensive in proportion as the previous 

 variety, and nearer in outline to the type form ; the light 

 area does not invade the cell : it is creamy white, with 

 the veins running through it very yellow ; the 5 black 

 discal spots are much larger than in the type form— 4 of 

 them being almost leaf-shaped— the 5th confluent with 

 the black of the abdominal margin ; the area below these 

 spots is a rich golden-yellow, which also extends a little 

 way above their apices, and to the apical angle of the 

 wing, and is densely scaled with brown atoms except in 

 the separate yellow spot near the apical angle. The 

 black margin of the wing is about the same in width as 

 in the type firm. The under surface of both wings the 

 same in colour, and almost the same in the shape of the 

 markings, except that the colour is more rich and pure 

 from the absence of scaling, — and the white is more 



creamy in tone than in the previous variety. The mar- 

 ginal fringe lunules of the hind wings are formed by yellow 

 atoms : of the fore-wings they are white as above. 



Abdomen yellowish-white above ; subdorsum deep 

 greenish golden-yellow, with the articulations well ex- 

 pressed in black. 



The costa of the anterior wing of this beautiful variety 

 is much more rounded at the apical angle than in the 

 type form. 



Length of costa 95 mms. ; greatest width of anterior 

 wing 38 ; width of posterior wing 43, and length 63 mms. 

 Length of abdomen 40; of thorax with head 21; of 

 antennae 35 mms. 



Hab. Etna Bay, New Guinea. Etna or Kiruru Bay, 

 as the native name is, is situated on the south coast of 

 the Onin province of Dutch New Guinea, in 134 30' 

 East longitude, and about 5 S. latitude ; and runs like 

 a narrow creek into the land in an eastward direction 

 probably about 15 miles from the mouth of the bay. 

 On the eastern side of this bay is Mount Lakahia, nearly 

 4,600 feet high — itself the most western member of the 

 Charles Louis Range of Mountains. 



