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along vein 3 : the prothoracic lubes bear usually a black spot ; otherwise this 

 subspecies agrees with leuconeura. In a good many individuals of both sexes the 

 median vein bears a well-marked white streak. The base of the hiudwing is often 

 black as far as the middle of the cell, in which case the white area is reduced to a 

 transverse patch. The black sjiot at the end of the cell of the hindwing is, in our 

 series, always present on the underside, and often also on the upperside. 



Hab. Solomon Is.: Guadalcanar, New Georgia, Alu, Islets near Isabel, Ugi ; 

 82 (?, IG ?. K. J. 



30. Asota subsimilis. 



Hypm mhsimiUx Walker, List Lep. IJ,-t. IS. M. XXXI. p. 21-2 (1804) (Singapore); Biitl.. '/'/■. Kid. 

 Soc. Loud. p. 317. n. 9 (1875) (Singapore); Moore, P. Z. S. p, 847 (1878) (Ahsown): Smnh., 

 Tr. Eiit. Soc. Lond. p. 180. n. 9.3 (1890) (Tenasserim) ; Kirby, Cot. Li'i<. lUi. I. p. 389. n. 17 

 (1892) (Singapore); Hamp.?., Moths of Imlki I. p. 501. n. 1143 (1892) (Tenasserira, Malacca, 

 Singapore); Swinh., Vat. Lep. [let. .Uus. 0;rf. I. p. 91. n. 404 (1892) (Singapore). 



The lateral grooves of the antennal joints in the cj are shallower than in 

 A. lielicouifi; the harpe is somi'what broader than in that species. 



The black spots on the prothoracic lobes have sometimes nearly disappeared. 



The Idack border of the hindwing is on the upperside obsolete beyond vein 2 in 

 two of our specimens. 



Huh. Tenasserim ; Malacca, cJ; Singapore. K. J. 



31. Asota plaua. 



The antennae agree witli those of A. ca.naraicu and allies, the joints being in 

 the male without lateral grooves. The harpe has been said, in Vol. III. p. 207, to 

 be similar to that of A. ctjnn.i and A. hcUconia ; the specimens examined when I 

 wrote that note belong to A. ulbiformis, not to plana ; A. al/jiformis agrees almost 

 exactly in colour with plana, and was not recognised by us as a distinct species until 

 we saw more material. In A. plana the harpe is almost forked at the tip, the ventral 

 process of the fork is short, the dorsal one long; plana a,nd/ukia are the only instances 

 in the genus Asota we know of in which the harpe deviates from the general form as 

 illustrated in Nov. Zool. III. t. iv. f. 12 to 22. There are some peculiarities in tlic 

 variation of A. plana which are worthy of note. The western forms of plana, 

 inhabiting Continental India, Ceylon, Formosa, the Loo Choo Islands, the Philippine 

 Islands, Borneo, Sumatra, and Nias, have the hindwing marked with black spots ; 

 in the form from Engano the spots are sometimes present, sometimes absent (excejit 

 that one at the end of the cell), while in tiie sHbsj)ecies ranging from Java to the 

 Tenimber Islands only the spot at the end of the cell is present, and this spot is here 

 very small ; in the Celebeusian form the sj)ot at the end of the cell is large and the 

 discal spots are absent, while in the Papuan Subregiou there occur two subsj)ecies 

 in wliich the discal spots rcajipear in the mate sex. In all the various subspecies 

 the black spots of the hiudwing are either more numerous in the matt: than in the 

 female, or somewhat larger ; the black dots at the base of the forewiug and the 

 thoracical black spots are also generally larger in the male than in \\\<: female, while 

 in tiie latter sex the white patch near the upper angle of the cell of the forewiug 

 above is mostly larger than in the -male. K. ,1. 



