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The Minount of white on the head and thorax is very variable ; in some 

 specimens the white colour is by far prevailing on these parts. The base of the 

 abdomen is, in a few examples, ijuite as white as in dominia. The forewings vary 

 from being nearly as white as in dominia to having the darker tint of N. euijeniii 

 hei'pa SneU. from Celebes. The veins are broader white tlian in the subspecies from 

 the Malayan and Papuan Islands. The blue-black spots of the marginal band to the 

 hindwiiigs are .seldom all isolated in hidleri; mo.stly the two, three, or four anterior 

 ones are merged together or touch one another; the posterior ones remain separate 

 by the nervules. The spot before and that behind vein 3 vary in our series of 

 thirty-four specimens from 4 to 8 mm. The fringe of the hindwing is all white, not 

 spotted between the nervules with blue-black, or very faintly so. On the underside 

 the white colour on the forewing is always much extended, and the hindwiiigs have, 

 near the apex of the cell, a black spot corresponding in position to the stridulatory 

 patch of thick scales of the upperside, but composed of normal scales like the rcsl 

 of the disc. K. .1. 



44. Neochera eugenia javana Kothsch. subsp. nov. 



Uijpm (hmibiiti, Walker (mu Cramer, 1782), Lej). Ilet. B. M. II. p. 448 (1854) [Prop. ; Java). 

 Neocheru dominia, Moore, Cat. Lip. Ins. Miis. E. J. C. II. p. 295. n. 677 (1859) (E.r p. ; Java). 

 Neochera bhawana, Butler {,uc Moore, 1859), Tr. Ent. Sue. Lotul. p. .'528. n. 2 (1875) (E.r p.; ? , 



Java). 

 Neochera mgeiiia var. herpa Snellen («ec Snellen, 1879), Tijilschr. v. Ent. XXXI. p. 120 (1888) 



(Java ; tiec Celebes). 

 (?) Htjiisa dominia, Hampson, Moths of India I. p. 498. n. llSti (1892) {Exp. ; Java). 



Differs from the darkest specimens of hidleri by the white lines upon the veins 

 of the forewing being narrower, the marginal spots to the hindwing forming an 

 almost uninterrupted band, and the fringe of the hindwings being black between 

 the veins. 



The posterior spots of the marginal band to the hindwing are slightly separated 

 from one another ; the white spots at the end of the nervules are not restricted to 

 the fringe, as in typical eufjenia, but are distinctly produced upon the wing. 



Hah. Java. 



This form is a transition to the Celebensian herija SneU. and the Timorese 

 proxima Rothsch. subsp. nov. W. R. 



45. Neochera eugenia herpa .Snellen. 



Aganais eugrnia var. hir/xi Snellen, Tijdschr. v. Ent. XXII. p. 78. n. 35 (1879) (Bonthain). 

 Nriichfra eugenia var. heipa Snellen, I.e. XXXI. p. 120 (1888) (Celebes ; wee Java). 



Differs from the Java form especially in the submedian fold of the I'onwiug 

 being mucli lir<)ad<-r white on the disc. In a specimen from Tombugu, E. Celebes, 

 this white line is patchlike, and so broad in the middle as to touch the median 

 nervure. 



From Celebes and Sanghir in the Tring Museum. K. .1. 



4(i. Neochera eugenia fumosa Rothsch. subsp. now 

 (? ? . Forewings as in helicoiudcs Snell., but veins thinner white, especially 

 at the extremities; below, the subapical white patch cut short at vein 3. Hindwings 

 suft'uscd with bluish black scales, especially in the middle of the disc. Border to 

 hindwing as in herpa SneU., i.e. .spots between the median nervules somewhat longer 

 than hijdvana Rothsch. 



