880 



RHOPALOCERA MALAY AN A. 



Exp. wings, 3 t 115 to 137 niillim. ; ? , 140 to 155 rnillim. 

 Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Penang (Biggs — colL Disk); Province Wellesley (coll Disk) ; Perak 

 (Kunstler — Calc, JTus.) ; Snngei Ujong (Burn ford — coll. DiBt.) ; Malacca (Plnwill — Brit. Mns.). 



As already explained (antea, p. 328), when Mr. Butler described this species the true 

 female had not been received, and he described a specimen in my own collection as being the 

 missing sex of 0, rujieollis. Since then, by the kind assistance of Dr. Anderson, I have been 

 able to examine a fine series of both sexes, and no mistake can be made if the bases of the 

 wings beneath are consulted, as in 0* htpkw&tus these are tinged with carmine— a character 

 totally absent hi 0. ruficollis* 



B. Outer margin of anterior wiuyt Marly straiyhL 



4, Ornithoptera brookeana. (Tab, XXVII./,, tig. 1 <? ; XXV 1L «, % 4?.) 

 t hutihopUra ttrovkiatia, Wallace, Proc. Eat. Soc. ser. 2, vol. iii. p. 104 (lb5ou 



Ornithoptera Brwkeana, Hew. Ex. Butt, i, Onu S Pap. t. 1, f . 1 (1856); Wall, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. 



p, 40, n. 16 (1866) ; Gosse, Enfc. vol. xiv. p, 156 (1881) ; Trans, Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol u\ p. 291 , 



t. 27, f. 6-8 (1882), 

 Papilfo Hrooktana, Snell, Lep, v. M Erich Knni. p + 24, n. 1 (1890}. 

 Papilio Trogon, Voll. Tijd. Ent. iii. p. 66, t. 0 (1860), 



Male. Wings above velvety black, the fringe narrowly greyish ; anterior wings with a series of seven 

 large subniarginal lanceolate, metallic, emerald -greenish spots, broadest inwardly, and each centrally 

 divided by the neuration, the uppermost smallest and situate on the lower subcostal nervule, the seventh 

 broadest and divided by the submedian nervure ; posterior wings with the disk from uear base to about 

 one-third beyond ceil metallic emerald -greenish, divided by the black neuration, Wings beneath black, 

 but more opaque than above ; anterior wings with the greenish spots smaller and more obliterated than 

 above, followed by some more or less distinct greyish duplex spots divided by the nervines, the basal costal 

 area, and a broad curved streak beneath base of cell, metallic-blue ; posterior wings with some metallic- 

 bluish spots at base, and with a broad submarginal greyish fascia, which is outwardly lunate and inwardly 

 more or leas effectively encloses a series of black spots. Body and legs black, base of head above and 

 a broad pronotal collar dark brilliant carmine ; thorax beneath with the posterior margins of the meso* 

 and metasternums, and a maculate tuft on each side of base of abdomen dark brilliant carmine. 



Female. "Wings above less intense and brilliant black than in the male, the anterior wings also 

 differing in having the emerald-green spots replaced above the lower discoidal nervule by a large Bubapical 

 greyish-white patch, divided by the black nervules and outwardly deeply and acutely cleft; posterior wings 

 with the disc a) emerald- greenish patch having the dividing neuration more broadly blackened, shaded with 

 bluish at base, and outwardly bordered by a submarginal lanceolate dark greyish fascia, which is palest 

 towards apex ; wings beneath paler and more fuscous than above ; anterior wings with the emerald spots 

 above as well as the subapical patch greyish-white beneath, those beneath the cell inwardly tinged with 

 greenish, the metallic- blu> markings as in male; posterior wings with a broad tmbniargiual greyish-white 

 fascia, outwardly lunate and inwardly more or less effectively enclosing a series of spatulate dark spots. 

 Body above with the pronotal collar iesB broadly carmine than in male, the abdomen dark olivaceous- 

 brown; abdomen beneath blackish, the sternum and base of abdomen marked with carmine as in male. 



Exp. wings, S , 166 to 172 millim. ; ? , 172 to 180 millim. 



Hab*— Malay Peninsula; Perak {coll, Gosse ; Kunstler— Calc. Mus. ; Lowe— coll. Dist.}; Malacca. 



