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Coll. there are 3 6* , 3 2 and the Pupa from Shortland Islands, 

 also the green var. Bornemanni, New Britain, 3 $ , 32. 

 In the Vienna Museum 1 S- , 1 2 labelled Urvillianus and 

 1 Pupa ; also 1 $ , 1 2 Bornemanni. In my own collec- 

 tion, 4 6* , 8 2 of Urvilliana from Duke of York Island and 

 Aru Island. 



VAR. BORNEMANNI. 



0. Pegasus, v. Bornemanni, Pagenstecher, "Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Nat." p. 65, t. f, 



f. 2, (3), (1894) N. Britain. 



Troides Priamus Urvillianus, ab. loc. Bornemanni, Rothschild, "Novitates Zool., 



V. II.," p. 191, (1895). 



$ . In the Rothschild Collection. Anterior wings 

 deep velvet black ; the median vein and branches sparse!}' 

 dusted with green scales ; subcostal band and broad 

 submarginal band a dark rich bluish green, beautifully 

 graduated into the black. Posterior wings, the same rich 

 green, dusted from the base with black scales, most 

 densely at their starting point, till they become faint on 

 the discal area ; with 3 moderate sized orbicular inter- 

 nervular black spots, and a 4th, the lowest, almost 

 obsolete. Viewed in a slightly oblique position against 

 or opposite the light very blue green ; in a line with the 

 eyes and opposite the light, a rich fiery copper-red. All the 

 green of the under surface of both wings a slightly warmer 

 blue green ; the dark ground, and black spots of the hind 

 wings (7) nearly as black as above : also shot with 

 coppery reflections ; the submedian area from the anal 

 angle half way to the base, orange. Thorax, deep velvety 

 black ; longitudinal mark, dark green ; abdomen, orange 

 yellow ; abdominal fringe, long and burnt sienna red. 

 Length of costa, 80 mms. 



Hab. New Britain (Cotton and Webster). Also 

 from Mioko Island (Coral Island), New Lauenburg, 

 Duke of York Group, according to Herr C. Ribbe. [See 

 PI. 18 in this Vol. A 2 is also figured in this plate, from 

 the same locality, which is probably the consort of this 

 variety. As a contrast to the above, I give 2 figures of an 

 intensely blue form of Urvilliana on the same plate]. New 

 Hanover (Webster), in the Tring Museum. 



VAR. CCELESTIS. 



Pap. Urvilliana Ccelestis, Rothschild, "Nov. Zool. V." p. 216, n. 1, 



$ . Anterior wings intensely velvety-black — the veins, 

 except the median nervure, almost untraceable in any 

 light ; the pupseform brand very regular in outline, and 

 a very subdued dark ruddy brown, but almost in- 

 visible when viewed obliquely opposite the light ; the 

 subcostal band verdatre blue, with a slightly violet tinge 

 at the base of the right wing (if viewed on a table, with 

 the light coming from the left side, and the insect a little 

 to the left of the observer) the posterior and interior 

 marginal bands warm violet blue with salmon-coloured 

 reflections ; the left wing with the subcostal band rosy 

 violet ; the posterior and interior bands green verdatre 

 blue ; posterior right wing (in the same position for light) 

 violet blue ; left wing green verdatre blue ; the discoidal 

 cells black, and graduated from the distal end by blue 

 irrorations ; a discal band of 5 submarginal black spots, 



whereof that nearest the anal angle is almost obsolete ; 

 all these spots are graduated, and appear to be separated 

 from a. ground-work of black that fills up all the inter- 

 nervular spaces of the disc above the spots by a dense 

 irroration of blue atoms, as in the cell ; the submedian 

 area is scaled in the same manner ; the black marginal 

 band is black, and encroached upon by the blue atoms ; 

 and the space above to the black spots is blue without 

 irroration. 



The head and thorax are densely velvety-black ; the 

 eyes deep castaneous, with delicate golden white outline ; 

 the thoracic longitudinal mark greenish-bluish, with violet 

 reflections, metallic in appearance, and very obtrusive ; 

 the abdomen is golden orange yellow, with the usual 

 triangular black anal mark ; the annuli only faintly ex- 

 pressed, in consequence of the uniform purity of the 

 abdomen. 



Undersurface : Anterior wings very black, though a 

 warm brown towards the outer margin ; all the spots and 

 marks a rich (slightly greenish) blue opposite — and violet 

 blue against — the light. Posterior wings : the discoidal 

 cell and lower area of the disc blue to blue green : the 

 other internervular spaces above the submarginal band of 

 7 black spots, green : between the spots and the narrow 

 partially indented black marginal border, green-golden, 

 with a faint suggestion of golden central spots ; a small 

 faint golden spot above the black spot just below the 

 subcostal nervure ; the abdominal fringe rather long and 

 yellowish-brown. Length of costa, 70 mms. ; width of 

 wing, 50 mms. ; width of posterior wing, 31 mms. ; 

 length, 37 mms. ; length of abdomen, 31, of thorax with 

 head 21, and of antennas 32 mms. 



Hab. St. Aignan or Misima (the native name) one 

 of the Islands of The Louisiade Archipelago, situ- 

 ated east of the most southern part of New Guinea, in 

 about 132 45' East longitude, and about io° 35' S. lati- 

 tude. Collected by Mr. Meek — from August to 

 November, 1897. 



Drawn and described from Mr. Rothschild's type. [See 

 PL 19, figs. 1, 2] . 



2 . All the wings smoky brown ; the lower wings in 

 some lights are seen to be from the base densely hirsute 

 over the brown of the wing ; the light marks all rendered 

 very sordid by dark scales ; the discal light area of the 

 posterior wings are as usual somewhat ochraceous below 

 the band of black spots ; the light fringe lunules are well 

 expressed, the light mark in the anterior wing cell is 

 somewhat different in shape from the usual type, but not 

 sufficiently so to be important. The under surface of all 

 the wings very pure light brown — darker brown towards 

 the outer margin of the anterior wings, and quite black on 

 the outer margin of the posterior wings. 



The light marks of all the wings the same in number 

 and shape as above, but pure ochraceous or creamy- 

 white on the anterior wings— the same on the posterior, 

 but lemon yellow below the sub-orbicular discal black 

 spots— these spots are likewise rather larger below than 

 above ; the black spot on the inner margin of the left 

 hind wing is more than twice as large as the correspond- 

 ing spot on the right wing ; on the upper side this larger 

 spot is absent or is fused into the general brown of the disc 

 (on the right wing as it then becomes) , but is as promi- 

 nent as on the under surface, or what is now the left 



