( 200 ) 



Tlie meso- iind metathoiax are much more white than orange, often nearly all 

 white ; the first abdominal segment is white, vfith some orange scales dorsally. 



On the underside the costal bluish green border of the hindwing is iiartly 

 obliterated, especially towards the base. 



Known to us from Northern Queensland, Cooktown and Cairns. K. .1. 



49. Neochera eugenia stibostethia Hutler. 



Xeocheia utibosteOiia Butler, Tr. Enl. Soc. Lund. p. 320. n. 4 (187.i) (Bmu) : Swiub., Cut. Lc/,. If, I. 

 Or/. I. p. 85. u. 378 (1892) (Buru). 



The head, thorax, and the base of the abdomen are white as in dominm, but 

 there are mostly a few orange scales at the edges of the tegulae and the metathorax. 

 Known to us only from Burn. l'^- ■'■ 



50. Neochera eugenia affinis Kothsch. subsp. nov. 



Xeoihcra eiajaiia, Swinhou (w Cramer, 1782), Cat. Lr,,. lift. 0.cf. I. p. 8!. n. 375 (18',12) (/••> y.. ; 

 Ternate). 



Differs from eugenia (Cram.) in the black border to the hindwing being narrower^ 

 having at vein 4 a breadth of 4 mm. only; the band is much better defined and 

 posteriorlv slightly produced towards the disc; the white area outside the cell is not 

 sliaded with fuscous. The fringe of the hindwing and the veins of the forewing are 

 as in eugenia. The thorax is orange, with the usual black spots large, those on the 

 tegulae often merged together, as in eicgenia. 



The dorsal and ventral spots of the abdomen are always large and iransverso ; 

 the ventral ones are often confluent to form transverse bands; there appear black 

 lateral spots round the stigmata. 



Hab. Halmahera (type; W. Doherty, August 1892; 2 6. 1 V); Teniate (W". 

 Dohertv; 1 c?, 1 ?); Batjan (W. Doherty, March 1892; 2 ¥); Morotai (Bernstein ; 

 1 ?).  



This form stands, as regards the pattern of the hindwing, intermediate between 

 tvpical eugenia and herpa. The white veins of the forewing are very prominent. 



W. R 



51. Neochera eugenia papuana Kothsch. sub.-p. nov. 



Neochera eugeiwi, Butler (/;<•.■ Cramer, 1782), Tr. Linn. Sot: Loud. p. 328 (187.5) (Dorey, Aru) ; 

 Swinh., Cut. Lep. Ilrt. Ih-f. I. p. 84. u. 375 (1892) {Ex p. ; Mysol, Aru, Dorey, N. Guinea). 



(J ? . Veins of forewing thinner white than in eugenia, and mostly without white 

 scales (or nearly so) near the outer margin. Head, thorax, and base of abdomen 

 particoloured with orange and white. Blue-black border to hindwing 4 to 5 mm. 

 wide at vein 4, very slightly produced towards disc between veins 1 and 4, well 

 defined; white area not shaded with fuscous, pure white. Fringe to hindwing all 

 black, or with traces only of the usual white dots at the ends of the veins. Dorsal 

 black markings of abdomen rather small. 



The white patch on the underside of the forewing situate between the cell and 

 abdominal margin is very variable in size, and is often a mere line. The mesothorax 

 is sometimes more white than orange; the luctathnrax is mostly all while, as is 

 Usually the case with the first abdominal segment. Tlio black dorsal spots of the 

 alxiomeu never form transverse bands, as in cagenla and some other subspecies, and 

 are often reduced to minute points, or are even absent. 



