( 3.5.5 ) 



Hypsa llama, Butler, Tr. Enl. Soc. Loud. p. 315. n. .3 (187.5) (Aru ; iiec Rockingham Bay) ; id , 



Ann. Mag. N. H. (5). XI. p. 42;5 (1883) (Aru) ; Swinh., Cat. Lc^i. Jht. 0.r/. I. p. 86. n. 382 



(1892) (cry;.). 

 Ili/pua lanceolata, Kirsch, .\fiUh. Miis. Drrsihn I. p. 132. n. l.")4(1877) (Ansus) ; Pagenst., in Suinoii, 



Fm-si-hunysmscu V. p. 114. n. 32 (189.5) (N. Guinea). 

 Hyit^ki (!) siUandrii, Druce, P. Z. 8. p. (542 (1878) (N. Guinea). 

 Aijaiiais hfucoiieura, Ribbe, Ii-in I. p. 87 (1885) (Aru); Pagenst., Jahrh. X-isx. 15 c. .V(/(. p. 12:'). n. .37 



(188G) (Aru). 



The forewing in deeper bliiek t)mii in the preceding sulispecies; tlie veins are 

 mneh Jess white, though in some individuals the white lines reach close to the outer 

 margin of the wing. In all our specimens from Xew Guinea and Aru there is a 

 rounded white patch at the lower angle of the cell, mostly prolonged along vein 3; 

 the median vein is obviously marked white in nearly all the specimens, except in one 

 from Aru (J) and another from German New Guinea (cJ) in which the median 

 nervure is very thinly white. The white streak upon the median nervure is mostly 

 of even width, while in one example from Aru (c?) it gradually widens out towards 

 the white discal patch; such a specimen as the latter Kirsch must have had before 

 him, as he enumerates the form from Ansus (N. Guinea) as lunceolatu. Both sexes 

 have a rounded white patch on the underside of the forewing. The hindwing has a 

 black border all round. The thorax is darker above than in ghara, and decidedly 

 darker above and below than in ilamu (from Queensland). In many Aru specimens 

 the thorax is somewhat brighter orange than in New Guinea individuals. The dorsal 

 black spots of the abdomen are transverse ; in not one of our specimens do they reach 

 down to the black sjiots upon the spiracles ; the latter are much more heavily marked 

 iu ih.e female than in the male. 



Hub. All over New Guinea, 5 $, 10 ? ; Aru Is. (H. C. Webster, April to July 

 1896), 8 c?, 4 ?; Fergusson 1., D'Entrecasteaux Is. (A. S. Meek, September to 

 November 1894), 1 c?, 3 ?. K. J. 



a. A. heliconia dama. 



NiKtwi, tlunia Fabricius, Si/.it. Ent. p. 596. n. 26 (1776) (N. Holland, Mus. Banks); id., Enl. Sysl. 



III. 2. p. 29. n. 69 (1793); Donov., /«.s. N. Hull. t. 39. f. 1 (1805) {fitj. '>f th: Ilantsian sjiecinen). 

 Aganais dama, Boisduval, V'>>/(tgt' Aslrolahr, Lep. p. 250. n. 3 (1832) (Joe. err.); Snell., Tijdschr. 



V. Enl. XXXI. p. 139. n. 26 (1888) (cc p.). 

 llypm dama. Walker, Cat. Lep. Hel. B. .M. II. p. 449. n. 6 (1854) (h,c. err.) ; But]., Tr. Ent. Sue. 



Lund. p. 315. n. 3 (1875) (Rockingham Bay; «<■<■ Aru); Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. p. 768. 



n. 109 (1886) (Cape York and Cooktown); Lucas, ihid. p. 1086 (1889) (Cape York to Mackay); 



Swinh., Cat. Lep. lid. Ox/. I. p. 86. u. 382 (1892) (rx /).); Kirby, Cat. Lep. Ilet. I. p. 388. 



n. 6 (1892) {fxp.). 

 Jiypsa sihrindra, Walker, I.e. II. p. 450. n. 7 (1854) (ex p.) ; id., I.e. VII. p. 1674 (1856) (" N. S. 



Wales " loc. err. ?). 

 Jii/psa miDii/cha, Hamp.son, Mvllm of Ind. I. p. 499. n. 1137 (1892) {Prop.). 



Walker (Jx.) and .Swinhoe {I.e.) record this form from New South Wales ; 

 Meyrick {I.e.), as well as Lucas (I.e.), knew it only from North Queensland, and the 

 tifly odd sj)ecimens iu the Tring Museum are all from North Queensland, mostly 

 Irom Mackay, Cooktown, and Cairns. 



The dilference between this and the preceding subspecies is very slight, the 

 only obvious distinguishing character of dama being the decidedly brighter yellow 

 thorax. The white patch at the ajjcx of the coll of the forewing is in all our 

 siiecimens jirolonged along vein 3, and connected with the base by a streak upon the 

 median nervure ; this streak varies in breadth, being mostly linear, but often 

 gradually widens distally. The white lini's upon the veins are sometimes very 



