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a little above the siibiuediau uervure, wheace it extends bioaiUv along the iuuer 

 margin to one-half the distance from the base ; the remainder of the wings is 

 white, with a basal patch of blue scales which extends broadly along the costal and 

 inner margins abont half the distance. Posterior wings grey-black, with a while 

 patch above the costal nervnre ; the basal third is densely irrorated with tiright 

 bine scales extending over and below the cell. 



Underside : anterior wings with the costa and apical third broadly black, thence 

 along the onter margin narrowly black; the dark costal and apical area is centred 

 with a cnrved rather broad band of shining blue scales, interrupted about the 

 middle. Posterior wings with the onter two-thirds and a broad subbasal band black; 

 in the onter black area is a very broad band of shining blue, centred by seven 

 elongate oval black spots between the veins ; a white band crosses the wings 

 before the middle, and extends more narrowly along the costal margin nearly to 

 the apex; the basal third is densely irrorated with blue scales, and there is a blue 

 streak at the base. Cilia of both wings black. 



Exjianse of wings : If inch. 



ffiih. Etna Bay, Dutch New Guinea (Webster, August 1896). 



Described from fonr ? specimens; the cj remains to be discovered. 



The ? on the upper wings resembles T. wallacei Feld., but the white area 

 is more extended, and the broad irroration of blue scales on the npperside of both 

 wings, the absence of the subbasal white band on th(' njiperside of the posterior 

 wings, the much wider blue area on the underside of those wings, and the black 

 cilia of both wings, which are white in T. wa/larci, as well as minor differences, 

 separate it from that s]iccies. 



NOTES ON HETEBOCEEA, WITH DESCEIPTIONS OF NEW 

 GENEEA AND SPECIES. 



By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD and DR. KARL JORDAN. 



(Plate !¥.•) 

 AGANAIDAE ( = HYPSIDAE) {conti nued from Vol. III. p. 208). 

 T first sight it would appear that the species of Asota mnst be arranged into 



A 



two groups, the one group containing those species the males of which have 

 the antennal joints j)rovided with a groove on each side, the other embracing the 

 species with not-grooved antennae. >Sncli an arrangement would, however, briiig 

 species like clara a,wX javana, ox cerficolar and ///^////;wte, together into one grouji, 

 which in other respects are not nearly related; while, again, otherwise close-allied 

 species like antenncdis and dohert)/i, venalba and heliconia, woidd be widely 

 separated. If wi^ except a number of aberrant forms (versicolor, caricae, contortn, 

 etc.) wliich stand more isolated than the rest of the species o^ Asota, we may divide 

 the remaining species into three groups, which, however, are not sharply definable, 

 represented respectively by egens, heliconia, and clam, each group containing sj)ecies 

 with grooved and with not-grooved male antennae. In the following diagram the 



• ri. IV. li^'. 1 is a copy of Olierlhiir's figure of Papilio rcr, El. (VKiit. XII. t. 1. f. 1 (1S88). while fig. 2 

 represents my .species Pajjilio mimetious, Entom. XXX, p. 165 (1897). A comparison u£ llie two figures will 

 show the (Uftercnces 1)etwcen the species as pointed out by me l.i: — W. li. 



