208 N'OVITATES ZoOLOOICAK XXII. 1915. 



00. Parthenos aspila aspila Hour. 



Paiihenns aspila Honrath, DfiL Eiil. Zeilsrli. xxxii. p. 24S. pi. v, f. 2 (1888) (German New 

 Ouinea). 



Two specimens of this form were sent ; as Vulcan Island is not far from the 

 mainland they were probably blown across. 

 2 cJc?, Vnlcan Island. 



liiii. Parthenos aspila tenebrosa snbsp. nov. 



S ?. Differ fiora P. a. axjiiln by being much larger and very mnch darker, the 

 rufons basal ])ortions being snffnsed with green-black scales. The underside is 

 strongly suffused with black. 



Expanse : aspila S 92 mm., ? 106 mm. 

 „ tenebrosa r? 114 ram., ? 122 mm. 



4 cJ(?, 6 ? ?, Pampier Island. 



mi. Partheuos aspila vulcanica snbsp. nov. 



(??. Differ from P.'a. aspi/n in the basal area of wings being pale orange- 

 rafous suffused with olive-green, a whitish patch at end of cell of forewing and 

 below it, the outer three-quarters of wings .strongly banded and barred and suffused 

 with yellowish olive-green ; two specimens lack the white in and below cell. 



fJc?, IJ ? ?, Vulcan Island. 



102. Eulepis pyrrhus jupiter (Butl.) 



Chararesjupiler Butler, Lep'id. Exol. i. p. 14. pi. v. ff. 4 & 7 (1H69) (Dorey). 

 4c?c?,3 ? ?, Vulcan Island. 



103. Eulepis pyrrhus admiralitatis subsj). nov. 



c? ? . Resemble 7?. p. attila Gr. Sra. above, and E. p. scitzi Rothsch. below. 



Above. Differ from attila on hindwing in the diseal white band being much 

 narrower and edged mnch more distinctly with blue, there are also three large blue 

 lunnles beyond the band not present in attila. On the forewing the two post- 

 cellnlar cream spots are larger, and there is on hindwing an orange patch at tornus 

 wanting in attila. 



Below. Differ from seitzi in the more rufous less olive ground-colour, in 

 the absence of the large white patch in cell of forewing, and in the larger white 

 marks beyond the cell and above veins 3 and 4. On hindwing they differ in the 

 much wider black bands on basal half of wing and in the more uniform deep 

 maroon of postdiscal band. 



1 (?, 5 ? ?, Manns, Admiralty Islands. 



{To he pontinuril.) 



