' C S87 ) 



h. A. versicolor subrupta subsji. imv. 



S . Diflcrs from typical versicolor rerslcolor in tlie bainl of the forewiiig being 

 iniuli narrower and at vein 2 interrupted {type) or constricted. 



? . Band sliglitly narrower than in averagey<?/««fes of New Gninean versicolor. 



The band varies in the mah' considerably and approaches in certain New 

 Britain examples the band of versicolor versicolor, being sometimes not constricted 

 at vein 2. 



JIah. Duke of York I. {tnjic), :5 cJ, t ? ; New Britain, 12 i , ii ?. W. I!. 



2(1. Asota paphos. 



Though the ////kj of this species is in the Bauksian collection, most entomologists 

 jiavi! followed the Walkerian erroneous identification and treated tills speeies as 

 hcliconia L., in spite of the fact that, as Snellen correctly points ont, the description 

 of heliconia does not at all fit the present insect. Kirby was the first to recog- 

 nise and to correct Walker's error. Snellen, in Tijdsckr. v. Ent. XXXI. p. 137 

 (l.s8!S), does not mention paphos F.; he has apparently overlooked the footnote 2 in 

 Anrivillius's paper (see below), as he describes a form of paphos as a new species. 

 Hampson, Moths of India I. p. 501 (1892), does not take any notice of Anrivillius's 

 critical remarks, but, following Walker, accepts tke name of Iteliconia L. for the 

 present species. 



A. paphos is especially distinguislied by the forewing being devoid of a white 

 median streak or patch, but having a rather broad white inner margin, and by the 

 marginal band of the hindwing including a white spot at vein 2. The antennae are, 

 as in A. phujinota, canaraica, etc., without lateral grooves. 



There are two geograjihical forms known; in both forms the black markings on 

 the hindwing are smaller in the female than in the male, and the amount of white 

 on the underside of the forewing is larger in the/e/mcle than in the male. K. J. 



". A. paphos paphos (PI. IV. fig. 11). 



Noctua jiii/iliiis Fiibridus, Muni. Ins. II. p. 1.37. u. 24 (17H7) (Siam ; Mus. Banks) ; id., Ent. Si/st. 

 III. 2. p. 18. n. :s:i (1793). 



Ilijpsd heliconui var. ii. Walker, Cat. Lr/i. lid. B. M. II. p. 4i2. n. H (1854). 



Ilypsa helicuniit, Moore, Juiivn. .Is. Soc. Bcixj. p. 235. n. 31 (1884) (Cachar) ; Swinh., Tr. Ent. Soc. 

 Limd. p. 180. n. 91 (1890) (Burma) ; Hamp.s., .l/i-z/is <>/ Iiul. I. p. .lOl. n. 1142 (1892) (Sikkim, 

 Assam, Burma, Singapore, Borneo ; '' Ceram,*" ** New Guinea,'' loc. rrr.). 



llypHii jHiphna, Kirby, in Auriv., lie. Crit. hep. M. L. U. p. 159. note 2 (1882). 



Ui/jjsa lem-onola var., Snellen, Ins VIII. p. 139. n. 11 (1895) (Deli, N.E. Sumatra). 



The veins of the forewing are white, but the white scaling of veins 2 to (5 

 disapjiears sometimes before the veins reach the margin of the wing. The hind- 

 wing i}^ the female has, besides a black border that is more or less Interrupted at the 

 veins, two postmedlan black markings and two spots in the cell, and an anal spot; 

 the latter is often continned along the abdominal margin. In the male the spots 

 are larger ; the first postmedlan one and the two cellular ones are joined to one another 

 by bliirk scaling, and the second median and the anal spot are connected with the 

 base of the wing by means of black streaks: the veins on the disc are jiartly black. 



On the underside the basal three-fourths of the forewing are white, with the 

 e.xception of a rounded spot in the cell, a transverse mark on the discocellular veb- 

 lets, and a spot behind the base of vein 2; in the male the white colour is much 



