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 [From Pages 28 to 46.] 



O. ARU AN A. 



0. Priamus, V. 'Armaria, Oberthiir, "Ann. Mus. Civ., Genova XV.," p. 46, f. n. 1, (18S0) <r ?. 

 Ribbe, "Iris III.," p. 39, (1S90) Aru Islands (Larva and Pupa;), s ?. 

 V. Arruanus, Oberthiir, " Et. d' Ent." IV., p. 27, sub. n. 1, (1879) N. Guinea and Aru Islands. 

 Ornithoptera Arruana, var. Valentina, Vuillot, "Bull. Soc. Ent., France," p. 124, (1892) Port Moresby, t ?. 



i 2 . Anterior wing cell, with the light mark very large 

 and pure ; all other marks also large. The spots and 

 marks of the under surface always vary very much in size. 



The following are contained in the Tring Museum : — 

 One $ with only i black subdiscal spot ; 2 $ with 4 ; 4 $ 

 with 5 ; 1 <? with 3 brown spots, three of them with yellow 

 centres ; under surface of ant. wing with 2-3rds of the cell 

 green ; a green stripe parallel with the subcostal nervure, 

 and 3-4ths its length ; the disc nearly entirely green, 

 except a slight black patch between the 4th and 5th sub- 

 costal branches ; veins only expressed in black ; outer 

 margin narrowly black. Posterior wing green, with the 

 veins feebly shown ; the golden mark between the costal 

 and subcostal veins ovate elongate ; 4 pale golden-yellow 

 submarginal spots, each smaller than the one above ; the 

 submedian space ochraceous golden ; and 2 small black 

 spots between the 1st and 3rd veins from the costa. 

 Hab. Aru (Webster). In the Vienna Museum there are 

 1 6* , 1 2 . In the British Museum, 1 S with the green 

 as deep as in the early arrivals of Pegasus. From Alu 

 Island ; 1 $ with no label ; 6 2 — two of these frorn Duke 

 of York Island ; 3 2 , one of them (Wallace's specimen), 

 varies much in intensity of golden green on the under side ; 

 1 2 large example, probably from Duke of York Island. 



O. EUM^US. 



In the Staiidinger Coll., 

 Museum, 3 <? , 1 2 . 



1 $ , Waigeu ; In the Tring 



O. (P.) CRCESUS. 



2 . One with the ant. cell mark divided into 4 narrow 

 elongate stripes, whereof the lowest is the largest ; one 

 specimen with 3 ditto ; 1 with only 1 narrow division left ; 

 1 with the spot ideally divided into 5 parts, the 1st is the 

 largest, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th are missing, the 5th very 

 small ; 1 with no cell mark, the submarginal spots are 

 very small, only 1 small discal mark — the rest being 

 nearly obsolete ; 5 examples with the cell marks very 

 irregular in shape, no two alike. In the Tring Museum. 



6* . Posterior wing : the golden silky cell spots long in 10 

 examples ; short and narrow, or almost rudimentary, in 5 ; 7 

 examples with no black spot ; 3 with 1 ; 2 with 3, the centre 

 one only defined ; 1 with 5, nearly equal in size ; 2 bord- 

 ered with a deep green, and the subdiscal golden silky 

 spots well shown ; g examples in which the anterior wings 

 have no orange discal spots, and 4 with a vein-divided 

 atomic red discal spot. In Tring Museum, which con- 

 tains 13 or more $ $ , and more than 922. Many 

 of the 2 2 are very rich in colour. In the Staiidinger 

 Coll., there are 10 $ 6* , 8 2 2 , and pupa. In the Vienna 

 Museum, 3^,3??. In Brit. Mus., 5 $ $ , 5 2 2 , 



1 pupa. Mr. H. Grose-Smith's collection contains a fine 

 series : — indeed this species is now well represented in all 

 important collections. 



O. (P.) LYDIUS. 



In Tring Museum, 2 $ , 3 2 . Brit. Mus., 1 <? , 1 2 . 

 In Dr. Staiidinger's Coll., 6 $ , 5 2 . In the Vienna 

 Museum, 1 o* , 1 2 . 



O. (P.) URVILLIANA. 



The series in the Tring Museum contains the follow- 

 ing : — From New Britain 6 <? , 4 2 ; from New 

 Ireland 8 <? , 3 2 ; from Duke of York Island 

 2 6* , 1 2 : from Solomon Islands 11 $ , 15 2 ; also 

 larva and pupa. (This list includes the green var. 

 Bornemanni, of Pagenstecher.) Captain Webster (quoted 

 by Mr. Rothschild) says that when the $ emerges from 

 the pupa it is green, and gradually assumes the peculiar 

 blue colour ; when it is killed too soon after emergence, it 

 assumes the peculiar bluish green or greenish blue which 

 is mentioned by Pagenstecher, a fact that is very sugges- 

 tive. I noticed that when I relaxed, for setting, a very 

 rich 6* Crcesus, after having been some hours in the relax- 

 ing dish, the upper sides of all the wings were absolutely 

 bright sage green. 



In the British Museum, 1 $ , New Hebrides (H.M.S. 

 Ship Dart) ; 1 $ , 1 2 , dark form, Guadalcanar ; 2 6* , 

 greenish-violet blue, and 3 2 with large anterior wing 

 spots, very light, Aola, Guadalcanar ; 1 2 , violet, Florida 

 Isle, Solomons, 1 2 , with large light cell spot ; 5 $ , 

 Alu Island, near Shortland Isle, Solomon Group, 3 with 

 a green tinge, 1 violet blue 532, one with the ant. wing 

 cell spot indicated by 3 small nebulous blotches on the 

 right wing— the left wing being immaculate ; 1 2 from 

 Fauro Island, Solomon Group ; 2 2 examples of melan- 

 ism : the ant. wing cell of one with only very faint light 

 division marks ; in the other almost obslete, as are all the 

 light marks ; 1 2 from Savo Island, Solomon Group, 

 greenish in tint ; 5 $ New Ireland, brown, blue and 

 violet ; 1 $ , New Ireland, with slightly greenish black 

 subdiscal spots on the secondaries ; 2 2 , one with the 

 ant. wing cell immaculate ; I $ , New Ireland, very green 

 blue, especially the costal band 5422 very light brown. 



In New Britain a number of specimens remain green 

 after emergence from Pupa, and have the appearance of 

 Poseidon; the band along the inner margin of the anterior 

 wings is more or less obsolete. The median vein of the 

 same wings is covered with a few green scales only, or is 

 quite black, or has much sparser green scaling on the 

 upper surface of the posterior wing. In the Staiidinger 



