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?/'. A. heliconia philippina I', philippiua. 



The bcasnl area of the forewing has only a trace of yellow at the very base, the 

 yellow colour being replaced by white ; in this respect f. pliilijipina agrees with the 

 forms from Formosa, the Loo (Uioo Islands, Celebes, tlie Moluccas, and the islands 

 farther east, and disagrees with dicta from Borneo, clacata from India, and other 

 western subspecies. The white streak on the forewing is shaped as in dicta f. dicta, 

 but obviously produced along vein 3. The veins are not white, except the basal half 

 of the snbmedian nervnre. The hindwing is as in dicta f. dict<i: liut the postmedial 

 black spots are apparently always absent. The thorax is slightly chirker than in 

 f. dicta, but much brighter than in zehrina; the abdomen as in f. dict((. In our 

 three specimens from Bongao, Sulu Islands, the white streak on the forewing is less 

 produced along vein 2 than iu the specimens from Palawan, Luzon, and Mindoro. 



W-. A. heliconia philippina f. nervosa forma nov. 



Very near (. exfensa from Borneo, with the base yellow as iu that form; the 

 wide streak of the forewing is, however, produced along vein 2, and all the veins 

 are more extended white, the white nervular lines reaching in the ? close to the 

 outer margin; the black border to the hindwing is as broad as in f. ■philippiiia 

 and verj- rarely indented, more often (in $, tijpe) dentate. The prothoracic lobes 

 are mostly devoid of black spots. On the itiidersidc the outer edge of the white area 

 on the forewing is in the female almost straight ; the costal margin is more or less 

 scaled white at the base ; the hindwing has in the male (ti/pe) traces of the two 

 black postmedial spots of clavata. This form perhaps does not occur in the 

 Philippines proper. 



Hah. Form philippina: Palawan {tape), Luzon, Mindoro (in coll. Standinger), 

 Bongao (Sulu Is.), 12 (j, 4 ¥ ; Jolo (in coll. iStaudinger). Form nervosa : Palawan, 

 3 (^, 2 ? ; Balabac (in coll. Staudinger). W. R. 



0. A. heliconia sangirensis subsj). nov. 



Very close to A. heliconia heliconia f. lanceolata, but differs in the veins in the 

 costal region of the forewing being white, the snbmedian veiu being more heavily 

 streaked with white than it is in any of our lanceolata specimens, and the thorax 

 being brighter ochraceous, with the patagia i)rovided with a rounded black dot. The 

 abdomen is in the ? {t'Jpe) black, with very narrow yellow rings ; iu the 6 the 

 yellow colour of the posterior half of the abdomen is more extended than the black 

 colour. 



Ilab. Sangir Is. (W. Doherty), 1 ? . A male in Dr. Staudinger's collection. 



W. K. 



p. A. heliconia heliconia. 



The two forms which we unite here to one subspecies are still more ditl'erent- 

 looking insects than the Javanese A. heliconia intacta f. intacta and f. lara, and 

 there is no difficulty in distinguishing every individual of the one form from every 

 specimen of the other ; moreover, one of the two forms, namely f. heliconia, is 

 apparently confined to Amboina and Ceram (and jierliaps some other island of the 

 Southern Moluccas), while the second form, f. kuweoluta, is found on the Southern 



