294 NOVITATES Z00L00ICA£ XXIV. 1917. 



cadmium j'ellow with a few dark markings, pectus mostly yellow ; thorax above 

 mostly concolorous with forewing, a narrow yellowish transverse band behind 

 middle. Abdomen above purple-brown with whitish belts, on the last few 

 segments cadmium yellow ; beneath belted, cadmium yellow and blackish. 



Forewing with costal margin verj- slightly cur\'ed, at least in distal part ; 

 blackish purple, with the markings white ; an oblique band frcm base of hind- 

 margin nearly to the origin of M=, mostly bounded anteriorly by M ; a some- 

 what oblique transverse median band, nearly as in cyune Cram., but rather more 

 regular ; the postdiscal spots between the radials small and well separated, the 

 subapical series nearly as in cyane, the mark between M- and tornus small, 



sinuous and vague, especially in its posterior part. Hindwing similar to that 



of cyane, the dark subbasal area rather more oblique, connected with the dark 

 border by some shading in front of SC, the cell-mark smaller, the projection cf 

 the white median area behind it rather more s-hallcw, the submarginal zigzag 

 band lighter and brighter (cadmium yellow), with the outward teeth less acute 

 and with a single, rather broad projection to termen along submcdian fold, 

 whereas cyane .shows two slender projections or dashes (on M= and fold). 



Underside similar, the hindwing with subbasal band only connected with, 

 the dark border in front of C, the yellow submarginal band broadened. 



Near Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains. Dutch New Guinea, up to 3,500 ft., 

 October— December, 191(1 (A. S. Meek), 2 2$ in coll. Tring Museum. 



Rather recalls some ? forms of Ujrianthina Butl., in which, however, inter 

 alia, the white median area of the hindwing is interrupted by the ground-colour 

 at abdominal margin and the venter is not yellow-belted. I conjecture that 

 endoleiica may be the cyane of Oberthiir's " Lep. Dorei " {Ann. Mus. Genova, 

 xii. 469, indescr.) and possibly of Pagenstecher's "Lep. Aru-Inseln " (Jatirb. 

 Nass. Ver. Xat. xxxix. 162, indescr.) ; I have only seen true cyane Cram, from 

 Ceram, Gis.ser I.sland, Amboina, and Saparoea, and would provisionally alter the 

 given range (Lep. Cat. pt. 14, p. 26) accordingly. 



4. Dyspbania militaris abnegata siibsp. nov. 



Paler yellow than m. militaris L., abdomen without dark belts. 



Forewing with the oblique antemedian black streak between SJP and hind- 

 margin almost invariably reduced to a very fine and slight dash, very often 



entirely obsolete. Hindwing with basal band usually slender or obsolete ; 



very generally with postmedian band more sknder than in in. militaris, often 

 more or less interrupted. 



Hainan, type (Weng Chang, July 1902) in coll. Tring Museum. 



Gut of a series of nearly 60 examined, from various localities on the island, 

 only three show the hindmarginal black streak of forewing in at all good develop- 

 ment, and these remain distinguishable by the pale ground-colour. In the very 

 few aberrations of M. militaris in which the corresponding mark is reduced, the 

 rest of the antemedian band participates in the reduction, which is rarely the 

 case in m. abnegata. 



5. Dysphania latiplaga ab. chrysostathes ab. nov. 

 All the normally white parts of forewing concoltTcus with the normally 

 yellow parts of hindwing. 



