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neither the streaks nor the patches are present ; between these extremes there exist 

 all intergradations, as onr series of specimens shows. The hindwing has in the 

 darkest specimens an indication of a fuscous border. On the underside the apical 

 fxiscons area of the forewing is as in Kujiiifiraiix, or is rednced or absent. Tlie costal 

 black spot of the hindwing is small. 



? . Only in one specimen are the two patches of the forewing snrronndcd by 

 short, brown, more or less confluent lines ; in a second specimen the patches are just 

 traceable, being of a paler tint than the rest of the wing, while in the other femules 

 the patches have altogether disappeared. The underside of the wings is entirelj' 

 without spots, or there is a minute postcostal spot on the forewing, or there is, 

 besides, such a spot on the hindwing. The basal joint of the palpi has in four 

 specimens a black lateral dot, while in five specimens the dot is absent. 



Hub. Goram Island ; Kei Islands (H. C. Webster, January to March 189(5), 

 13 c?, 9 ?. ' K. J. 



9. Asota tigrina. 



Damullii t'lijriim Butler, Ann. Mii,j. iV. IT. (fi). X. p. KJO (1K82) (N. Britain). 

 Aganah tigrhm, Kirby, Cut. Lej). Het. I. p. 38(!. n. 12 (1892) (N. Britain). 



Closely allied to A. orbona, but easily distingnished by the absence of the 

 antemediau patch from the forewing, the absence of some of the Iiasal black dots, 

 and by the entirely black palpi. 



ilab. New Britain, 1 c?, 1 ?. K. J. 



l<t. Asota australis. 



Agaimis auslr(ili.i Boisduval, Vmj. Astrofobc, Lip. p. 25'-'. n. 5. t. 5. f. 3 (1832) (X. Guinea c.rerr.'t). 



It appears to us to be very doubtful which race of the present species Boisduval 

 had before him. The description is so short that it applies to all the races except 

 the Australian one. As habitat Boisduval gives New Guinea in the text and on the 

 plate, but the figure differs from New Guinea specimens in the forewing being 

 without luteous nervular lines and in the black border of the hindwing being 

 denticulate, with the tooth ni)Ou vein 2 enlarged. These characters of the figure are 

 found only in the race from Amboina and Burn (and probably C'eram). However, 

 though the denticulation of the black border is as distinct in the figure as it is in 

 Amboina individuals, the denticles stand in the latter upon the veins, while in the 

 figure, most certainly in consequence of a mistake on the i)art of the artist, they 

 stand betwcc7i the veins. Under these circumstances we think it best to adopt the 

 way proposed in Nov. Zool. 1896, p. 455 — namely, to accept the name ai/stralis for 

 the entire species and to give a name of its own to each subspecies. 



The external white patch on the forewing above is more or less reniform in the 

 male; in thejcmclc it is larger and mostly irregularly iientagonal. On the underside 

 the yellow area of the forewing is more extended in iha/cmali' than in the male. At 

 the costa of the forewing there are four black dots marked ; in many examples tlie 

 first and third dots are absent. K. .1. 



((■ A. australis sinuosa subsp. nov. 



(?) Agaiiaia nuxtralia Boisduval, l.r. 



llypm mistralU, Walker. List Lep. Uet. B. M. II. p. 4.50. n. 25 (1854) ; Butt, Tr. Enl. Soc. Land. 



p. 322. n. 21; (1870) ; Snell., Tijdschr. r. Enl. XXXI. p. 128. n. 10 (1888) (.\mboina : ««• N. 



Guinea) ; Swiuh., Cut. Lep. Iht. Oxf. I. p. 111. n. 406 (1892) (Prop.). 



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