( S-"^! ) 



lines npon tlie veins in the two Kei Islands forms mnst therefore be acconnted for 

 b}- cansos otlier than "mimetic " rescmbhince. 



Hub. Kei Toeal (H. ('. AVebster, January to Marcii l.S'.iO), 2 c?, G ? {ti/pe ? ). 



W. R. 



(I. A. australis aequalis. 



(?) Agaiiais auatralia Boisduval, l.r. 



Ilypm arqimlis Walker, List L>/k Ilrt. B. .1/. XXXI. p. 214 ( I8i;4) (Aru) ; Butl., T,: Eiit. Sor. 



Limd. p. 322. n. 25 (187;".) (Aru ; lyp. in B. M.) ; Swiuh., Cat. Lep. Itet. Mas. Oxf. I. p. !)1. n. 4()i; 



(18'.I2) (Aru ; /;/;..• in Oxf. Mus.). 

 /7///wn o«.«(ra/;.s Butler, /.f. p. .S22. n. 2C (1875) (N. Guinea) ; .Snell., Tijihchr.r. Eiit. XXXI. p. 128. 



n. 10 (1888) (N. Guinea ; nee Amboina) ; Swinh.. I.e. p. 91. n. 40a (1892) (N. Guinea, Aru, 



Mysol ; iiec Amboina). 

 Ar/amis austmUs, Ribbe, Iris I. p. 87 (1885) (Aru) ; Kirby, Cul. Lq>. Hit. I. p. 380. n. 8 (1892) 



{Prop.). 

 A(jmxais aequalis, Kirby, !.c. n. 9 (1892) (Aru). 



The veins of the forewing are whitish, e.^cept between onter patch and apc.K of 

 wing of cj and in marginal region of ? ; the nervnlar lines less distinct than in 

 lineota. The black border to the hindwiug is evenly convex between submedian 

 fold and vein 3, as in lincitfn. 



The specimens from Aru do not seem to ns to be separable, snbspecifically, from 

 New Guinea examples. 



Hub. Arn (H. C. Webster, April to Jnly 1896), 1 c?, 1 ? ; Waigen, 'Z S ; 

 Dntch New Guinea: Hnmboldt Bay (W. Doherty, September and October 1892), 

 1 (J, 3 ? ; Fergnsson Island (A. S. Meek, November and December 1894), 4 (?, 3 ? ; 

 Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands (A. S. Meek, Marcli to May 1895), 1 S- 



Butler, I.e., says that the type of itequali.s is in the British Museum, while 

 according to Swinhoe, I.e., the type is in the Oxford Museum. K. J. 



e. A. australis assimilis subsp. nov. 



(?) Ui/jisa auslralis, Meyi-ick (ucc Boisduval, 1832), Pr. Liuii. Soc. X. S. W. p. 770. n. 112 (1886) 

 (N. S. Wales ?) ; Lucas, ihid. p. 1086 (1889) (Mackay). 



I quote Messrs. Meyrick and Lucas here with a ?, as 1 believe that the insects 

 these authors refer to do not belong to the present form of A. australis, but to a 

 representative of .4. orbona which is very similar to as.'iimilis and a2)parently not 

 rare in Queensland. I have received assimilis only from Port Uarwiu. 



? . Head, thorax, and base of forewing brighter ochreous than in the other 

 forms of australis. Forewing with a yellowish tint; the veins marked white nearly 

 as in lineata. Hindwiug with the fringe black between apex and submedian fold. 

 Unilcrside: forewing pale ochreous, a spot upon the discocellular veinlets black, this 

 spot of nearly even breadth, continued in type beyond median vein : apical region 

 of wing fuscous, its inner edge concave; it measures in width 10 mm. at costal 

 margin, 4 mm. at vein 5, and 2_^ mm. at vein 2. Hiudwing witii a black dot in 

 middle of costal margin. 



J lab. Tort Darwin, N.W. Australia, 2 ?. \V. It. 



1 1 . Asota diaua. 



Hypsa (Vuina Butler, Ami. Mag. K. 11. (5). XIX. p. 220 (1S87) (Alu .and Malaita). 

 Ai/anais (//»na, Kirby, Od. Lrp. Hit. I. p. 386. n. 6 (1892) (Solomon Is.). 



Tliis fine species occurs apparently ail over the Solomon Islands and does not 



