( =534 ) 



almost restricted to the fringe from the hinder angle to vein 5, and then widens out, 

 being 5 mm. wide at vein 8; tlie outer border to the hiudwing is also narrower than 

 in the J'r males, and there are two black costal dots to the forewiiig instead of one ; 

 on the nnderside the greater part of the costal margin of the forewing is black. 



In the ningh female from Toli-Toli, N. Celebes, in the Tring Museum, there 

 are some indistinct yellow discal spots within the black area of the hindwiug below. 



//(lb. Celebes: S. Celebes (W. Doherty, August and September 1891), 1 6, 

 3 ?; Toli-Toli, N. Celebes (H. Fruhstorfer, November and December 1895), 1 ?. 



As the differences in colour between this form of Asota and Asota javana are 

 quantitatively much greater than those found between many other species of this 

 genus, it is, at least for the present, better to consider celebensin distinct from 

 javana. 



It is worthy of note that in the black dorsal segments of the abdomen being 

 edged with yellow the Pliilippine form of .(. jarann is closer related to ^1. celebemis 

 than the .lavan form is ; while, on the other hand, tiie Javan form agrees more with 

 the Celebes insect in tlie size of the black dots at the base of the forewing than the 

 Philippine subspecies does. K- J- 



15. Asota iodamia. 



.l</a«flis horhouica ?, Herrich-Schaffer, Auss. Schmett. f. 119 (1854) (&c. lyjiagr.). 



AganaJs hxlnmia, id., I.e. text p. 79 (1858) (Australia). 



ITypm sphaerifcra Butler, Tr. Eitt Soc. Land. p. 329 (1875) {Norn. nov.). 



II>jj)sa iiesophora MeyTick, Pr. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. p. 770. n. 113 (188G) (Newcastle and Sydney; 



common) ; Lucas, ibid. p. 1086 (1889) (Brisbane ; N. S. Wales). 

 H,/psa iodamia, Snellen, Tijdsclir. v. Ent. XXXI. p. 132. n. 18 (1888). 

 Aganais sphaerifera, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. I. p. 386. n. 7 (1892). 



By an unfortunate but very obvious misprint thc/emale of Agariais borbonica, 

 described by Boisduval as insularis in 1834, but queried by him as ? oi borbonica, 

 stands as f. 120 instead of 1 19 on Herrich-Schatfer's plate, while the names given on 

 the cover of that number of Auss. Schmett. are : 119 borbonica ? and 120 iodamia ; 

 therefore the wcw «;.itw'c.s figured is represented by f. 119, but \\\c new name (iodamia) 

 is given to f. 120, which represents the species described already in 1834. In the 

 t«xt oi Auss. Sclimett. issued in 1858 the names are corrected, f. 119 being here 

 named iodamia and f. 120 borbonica ?. As there cannot be the sliglitest doubt 

 that the name of iodamia was meant by Herrich-Schiiffer for the then new insect 

 represented by f. 119, we follow Snellen in applying the name of iodamia to this 

 Australian species. 



]/ab. N. S. Wales, 1 <?; S. Queensland, Brisbane district, 4 S. K. J. 



10. Asota plagiata. 



Jlypsa plagiala Walker, List Lep. Het. B. M. II. p. 457. n. 19 (1854) (Now Holland) ; Meyr., Pr. 



Linn. .SV-. .V..S.IK. (2). I. p. 768. n. 110 (1886) (Bowen and Rotklianipton, Queensland; 



Clarence River, N.S.W. ; rather common) ; Lucas, I.e. (2). IV. p. 1086 (1889) (Bowen to 



Brisbane). 

 n<jimi discreta Walker, U. XXXI. p. 216 (1864) (N. Australia) ; Butl., Tr. EiU. Soc. L<ml p. 321. 



n. 22 (1875) (N.Australia). 

 Pcl<dia plaginhi, Butler, I.e. p. 326. n. 1 (1875) (Moreton Bay) : Kirby, Cat. Lep. Tlel. I. p. 385 



(1892) (Australia) ; Smnh., Cat. Lep. Bet. Oj-/. I. p. 95. n."421 (1K02) (Moreton Bay). 



The ]iattern of the base of the forewing is comparable to that of yl. heliconia, 

 the black sjiots corresponding to those of heliconia, and the yellow markings 



