ambracia. 
conspectus. 
alticola. 
artanus. 
dunali. 
egipius. 
pnrkinsoni. 
minor. 
phestus. 
minus cuius. 
64 PAPILIO. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
most of the small neighbouring islands definable subspecies do not yet appear to have been formed. It is 
true that in some districts both sexes are fairly constant, but the distinguishing characters occur again in 
other localities, sometimes at a great distance, so that there is no occasion for the erection of geographical 
races. The principal forms are: ^-f. ambrax Bdv., forewing with very thin grey lines at the apex; (J-f. 
ambracia Wall. (= ambracina Fruhst.), forewing with white apical patch; $-i. conspectus Rothsch., hindwing 
beneath with a number of grey discal spots; and ^-f. alticola form, nov., hindwing above with red anal spot, 
only known to me from the mountains of British New Guinea. $-f. ambrax Bdv. (= orophanes Bdv.) has 
grey stripes on the forewing, whilst $-f. ambracia Wall. (= lutosa Fruhst.) is white posteriorly on the disc 
of the forewing also above. On the island of Waigeu occurs exclusively G‘f- ambracia and §-f. ambracia; 
on Misol and Salawatti tf-i. ambrax and $-f. ambrax. Pi Dutch New Guinea (Dorei, Kapaur, Sekar, Hum¬ 
boldt Bay, etc.) G-f. ambrax greatty preponderates and the §§ belong to $-f. ambrax or are transitions 
to ambracia, just as in the northern part of German New Guinea. Further to the south-east, at the Huon 
Gulf, in British New Guinea, on the D’Entrecasteaux Islands and Trobriand the $ has nearly always an 
apical patch (as on Waigeu) and the large majority of the have a white area on the forewing. Very 
many Gd from the British district belong to tf-f. conspectus (the type of which, however, came from Waigeu). 
The butterfly flies also on the Louisiades, but we only possess 1 $ from there (St. Aignan), which has on 
the forewing a rather small white area, interrupted by black veins. - artanus Rothsch. <$: upper surface 
of the forewing with weak grey apical stripes; band of the hindwing narrower in the middle than in P. a. 
ambrax. forewing with white area as in $-f. ambracia; the 1. discal spot of the hindwing smaller than 
in that form, oblique, triangular or trapezoidal. Suer, Mefor Island in Geelvink Bay. — On Woodlark occurs 
dunali Montr. The J not constantly different from specimens from New Guinea; forewing with small apical 
patch or thin stripes; the band of the hindwing narrower than in most examples from the main island. 
forewing with rather small white area, which is more or less strongly dusted with black; the white area of 
the hindwing mostly distinctly suffused with yellow, the cell-spot and the spot placed before the 2. radial 
small or absent. Similar $$ also occur at low elevations at Redscar Bay in British New Guinea. — egipius 
Misk. (31 d) flies in Queensland. forewing with apical patch. The band of the hindwing does not reach the 
abdominal margin, or the last spot is diffuse; the red anal spot is almost always present also above, beneath 
all the submarginal spots are commonly developed. forewing with white area, the light stripes in the 
apex of the cell and on the disc purer white than in $-f. ambracia. Hindwing also above with a complete 
row of red submarginal spots. 
P. phestus. The subcostal of the hindwing branches off from the cell at a greater distance from the 
base than in P. ambrax. Palpi black or with a little white scaling. J: similar to P. ambrax, but the hind¬ 
wing beneath always with pure white discal spots and above always with a rather large red anal spot. $: 
forewing as in the £ without white marginal spots or these extremely small. The white area of the hind¬ 
wing smaller than in the ambrax and purer white than in those specimens of ambrax in which the white 
area is reduced; the veins intersecting it always black. Larva similar to that of ambrax, but according to 
Ribbe’s figure the abdominal bands are interrupted above as in the western forms of polytes, and the longi¬ 
tudinal stripe is grey with blackish bordering. On Citrus. The butterfly is rather common. Bismarck 
and Solomon Islands, but from the southern islands of the latter group (Guadalcanal', Maleyta and S. 
Christoval) phestus is not known. — parkinsoni Honr. : the white band of the hindwing above broad, be¬ 
neath on the contrary the discal spots reduced in number and size. The $ with large white patch on the 
forewing. Small examples of both sexes are ab. minor Honr. New Pomerania (= New Britain). — phestus 
Guer. (— nusaliki Ribbe) (33 c). J: the 4. patch of the band of the hindwing above usually strongly pro¬ 
duced; beneath the hindwing bears 5 or 6 white spots, of which the 3. is at least as long as its distance from 
the distal margin. the grey stripes of the forewing are not widened into a white patch. New Mecklen¬ 
burg (= New Ireland) and New Hanover. There are also here large and small specimens. — minusculus 
Ribbe. The $<$ from the Solomon Islands have usually the band on the hindwing narrower and also 
more deeply incised and the veins are mostly thinly but distinctly black. In specimens from the north¬ 
ern islands, namely Bougainville, Alu, Treasury and Choiseul (and Isabel?), the white discal spots of 
the under surface are mostly reduced as in parkinsoni; on the other hand these spots are as large as 
in phestus in examples from the islands of the Rubiana Group (Rubiana, New Georgia, Guizo, Vella 
Lavella, Kulambangra). The $ very similar to the phestus -£, the veins in the white area of the hindwing 
above more distinctly black. 
Aegeus Group. 
Large tailless species. Body as in the two preceding groups black, with faint white markings on head, 
thorax and the underside of the abdomen, or in certain $$ the abdomen above yellow and beneath black. 
cJ: wings black, with white band or white discal area on the upper surface of the hindwing. $ similar to the 
d or mimeticall.y modified. 
