( 2(11 ) 



//((/;. Dutch and (Tpvnmn N. Guinea {t/jpe from Humboldt Bay); Waigeu ; Aru ; 

 Mysol; and probably all the islands near the western [leninsula of N. (iuinea. 



It seems to be a rather common insect, the most prominent features of which 

 are the uniform blue-black border to the hindwini:; and the very thinly white veins 

 of the forewing. ^^'• K. 



52. Neochera eugenia eiigeuia (t'ramer), 



Plialfinin Bomhjr. euginia Cramer, Pap. Exut. III. p. 235. t. 398. f. .M (1782) (Amboina). 

 NnrUm rrhhme var., Fabricius, Ent. Si/sf. III. 2. p. 1'.). sub n. 34 (1793). 

 Nenchem eugenia, Hiibner, Verz. helc. iSchiiiett. p. 173. n. 1783 (181(i). 

 ITypsa. eiir/aiia. Walker, Lep. Ffel. B. M. II. p. 449. n. 5 (1854). 

 Nenchera mgenia, Snellen, Tijihclu: v. Ent. XXXI. p. 12i) (1888) (Er p.). 



On Amboina and Ceram. 



The white veins of the forewing are thin and nearly all of even breadth from the 

 base to the onter margin ; the fringe is all black except at the hinder angle, seldom 

 with some white scales at the extreTnities of the veins. The blue-black border to the 

 hindwiugs is broad, not interrupted, and between the median and submedian veins 

 irregularly produced towards the base; those veins themselves remain rather broadly 

 white; the rest of the wing is suffused with fuscous, but is whiter tlian in heliconides 

 from the Phili])i)ines; the fringe has very small white spots, except at the hinder 

 angle, where nearly all the .scales of the fringe are white ; the abdominal margin, 

 except fringe, is more or less broadly bluish black. 



The spots on the tegulae are usually merged together. The black spots of the 

 abdomen vary very much in size; sometimes they are as small as in hutleri, while in 

 other individuals they form transverse bands, as in (ijfinis Rothsch. ; tlie \entral 

 markings are generally enlarged. K. J. 



53. Neochera eugenia fuscipennis Rothsch. subsp. nov. 



(? ?. Forewing as in p(ipuaa<i mihi. Border to hindwing very broad, gradually 

 shading off on the disc ; outer half or nearly the whole of the wing suffused with 

 fuscous, the white colour often (type) reduced to a narrow space at the inside of tli<- 

 stridulatory patch ; white spots mostly absent from fringe of hindwing. 



The other characters as in typical eitgenia. 



Hub. New Britain (4 J, 5 ?). 



Sometimes scarcely distinguishable from cufjeiiia, to which it is much nearer 

 related than to papuana. ^^ • ^^■ 



54. Neochera eugenia heliconides Snellen. 



Neackera eugenia var. heliconides Snellen, Tijihehr. v. Eiit. XXXI. p. 121 (1888) (Philippines). 

 Nencliei-a :arin Swinhoe, Cat. Lep. Hel. O.rf. I. p. 85. n. 380 (1892) (Manila). 



Occurs on Palawan, Mindoro, and Luzon, ami probably also on the other islands 

 of the Philippine group. 



Snellen, I.e., identified this insect erroneou.sly with Moore's Neochera helicmiioides, 

 P. Z. S. p. G (1878), which is au Asota, not a Xeochera. The characters of " heii- 

 conUles" mentioned by Snellen are quite sufficient to recognise the present form of 

 eugenia, and therefore Snellen's name must stand instead of Swinhoe's name of zaria. 



The veins of the forewings are near outer margin broader white than in fiimvsa 

 Rothsch.; the hindwings are all bluish black except the base, the basal half of the 

 costal region, a patch beyond the stridulatory mark, and the greater portion of veins 

 I to 4, which arc whitish or white. From the darkest specimens o( fiimosa this 



