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seem to vary according to locality. Tlie iudividual variability is also but slight : 

 the orange basal spot behind the median vein of the fon-wing iibove is often well 

 marked and often scarcoly indicated. 



Il'ib. Solomon Islands: (Jmulalcanar, 1 cJ, 5 ? ; islets near Isabel, 1 J; N. 

 Georgia = Rnbiana, 2 c?, G ? ; Alu, 4 c?, 2 ¥. K. J. 



12. Asota alieuata. 



Agarista alieiuila Walker, List Lep. Uet. B. M. XXXI. p. 40 (1864) (Aneiteum, N. Hebrides). 

 Uypm agarislu Snellen, TijilHchr. v. But. XXXI. p. 129. n. 12. t. 1. f. 4 ( ? ) (1888) (Aneiteum, N. 



Hebrides). 

 Agaiuth (?) alienata, Kirhy, Cat. Lep. Ilrt. I. p. 387. n. 20 (1802) (N. Hebride.s). 

 Agmuii:< (?) agarista, id., i.e. n. 21 (1892) (N. Hebrides). 

 Damalijs alienata, Swinhoe, Cat. Lep. IIH. Osf. I. p. 95. n. 418 (1892) (Aneiteum; '-Sydney" 



loc. err.). 



In the ft'mri/i', which is figured by Snellen, there is on the ujipersidc a trace of 

 the kidnej'-shaped white patch of the forewiug. The black thorax distinguishes 

 this si)ecies from all other Asota. 



We have only two 7nales, one from Aneiteum, the other from New Britain: 

 the latter specimen has the orange area of the underside of tlic hindwing nion; 

 extended, and the spot at the apex of the cell, which is joined to the area, ochreons 

 instead of white. If these differences hold good, ulienutu has developed into two 

 subspecies. 



Ildb. Aneitenm, New Hebrides, 1 i : New Britain, 1 c?. K. J. 



13. Asota javana. 



The antennae and claspers of the J resemble those of .1. orbona. The species 

 varies apj)arently a good deal according to locality, and will doid)tless be split up in 

 future in a number of subspecies. For the present, owing to the absence of sufficient 

 material, we cannot recognise more than two forms, keeping the Celebensian repre- 

 sentative as a distinct species. 



". A. javana flaviventris snbsp. nov. 



ITypsa [Agaruiis) janma, Pagenstecher, /r/.v III. \i. Jo. n. 21 (1890) (Palawan), 



The black dots at the base of the forewing are small ; that at the abdominal 

 margin is absent or very small: there is no dot in the cell, except in one of onr 

 Palawan s])ecimens, in which the cellular black dot is marked by a few scales. The 

 apical edges of the five black basal segments of the abdomen, above, are narrowly 

 edged with yellow; underside of abdomen all yellow, except a row of dots on each side. 



In the specimens from Mindoro, Luzon, and Mindanao the brown area of fore- 

 Tsnd hindwing is a little more extended than in Palawan specimens: on the under- 

 side of the forewing the yellowish sjiot in the centre of the cell is small, and 

 si surrounded by brown colonr in tlie Palawan individuals, while that spot is joined 

 to the yellow costal area in the individuals from the other localities. 



llab. N. Luzon (J. Whitehead, 1894), 2 ? ; Mindoro, 1 S {typ,'), 1 ? ; Mindanao 

 (in coll. Dr. Staudinger): Palawan, 2 S. W. R. 



b. A. javana javana. 



Pluilaenu Bomhyxjamna Cramer, Pap. Exul. III. p. 140 t. 271. f. c (1780) (Java). 

 Aivlajahauis, Hiibner, Vers;, beli. Scliiitett. p. 104 (1810-22). 



