(346) 



triangle between the sninneilian fold jukI v(>in 5, and au ovate patch lieyond the apex 

 of the cell, white. In another individual, which otherwise resembles the before- 

 mentioned one, the two black dots behind the median nervnre of the forewing are 

 connected with one another. 



?. Hindwing without a distinct longitudinal black median line. The white 

 area of the underside of the forewing is not much larger than it is above, but 

 gradually shades into the grey colour of the abdomiaal region of the wing. Hind- 

 wing below with a streak at the base and spot at the apex of the cell, and a border 

 all round blackish ; the border at the alidominal margin is rather pale; the white 

 discal area penetrates into the cellule formed by veins (! and T. 



In some individuals (? ?) the costa of the forewing is less Idack at the base 

 than in the males, and the hindwing has no trace of black median line. 



Uab. Engano Island, September 1891 (W. Doherty), ii 6 , A ?. W. H. 



e. A. heliconia natuiiensis subsp. nov. 



i. Head, thorax, abdomen, and base of forewing as in cluvnUi, \mi the black 

 dots on the thorax much smaller. White median streak of forewing above reduced 

 to a minute linear mark at the lower angle of the cell ; hindwing with the black 

 border as in dicta, dilated at the anal angle, disc with a blat:k spot at the end of the 

 cell. Below, the forewing has a white triangular patch in and behind the outer half 

 of the cell: the hindwing is black with a white patch outside the ujipcr angle of the 

 cell, a long triangle, which reaches the base beyond the black median line, and a 

 line between veins la and \b, white. In one individual the white patch on the 

 forewing below is very small. 



?. Similar to the c?, but the forewing above witli the wliite sjiot somewhat 

 larger, measuring 1| mm. in length, the veins streaked with white ex('e])t in the 

 outer region ; black border of hindwing indented at the veins ; below, the white 

 colour much more extended than in the <?, especially on the hindwing. 



[lah. Bunguran, Natuna Islands (A. Everett, September and October 1894), 

 4 <?, 1 ?. 



Nearest to perimele Weymer, but easily distiuguisiied by the more extended 

 white underside of the wings. W. R. 



./. A. heliconia perimele. 



Uypm (ZuwOT, Snellen (««• Fabrieius, 1775). Tijdsihi: r. Enl., Versh, XXVII. p. 82. n. 9 (1884) 



(Nias) ; id., Iris VII. p. 1.^9. n. 112 (1895) (Deli, Sumatra). 

 Ihjpsa 2>erimele Weymer, Sutt. Enl. Zril. p. 275. t. 2. f. 3 (1885) (Nias) : Swinh., Cat. Up. Ilel. 



Ox/. I. p. 88. n. .-589 (1892). 

 Agatiah sih'tttifhfi, Snellen, MiihJni-Suninirn p. 3.3. u. 1 (1892) (.Soepajang, Boea). 



The white median streak of tlie forewing is in the S entirely obliterated; in 

 the ? it is indicated on the underside by some whitish scales between veins 'Z and 3. 

 The underside of the hindwing is often all black except a white streak behind the 

 cell : in the ? the white colour is more extended tliau in tiie i. In not one of our 

 eleven specimens from Nias and Sumatra are the black dorsal dots of the abdomen 

 dilated to black rings ; the lilack s])ot at tlie cnil of tlie ceil of the liiiidwing is well 

 marked above. 



ll'ih. Nias, 1 J, 2 ? ; Sumatra, T cj, 1 ?. K. .1. 



