( 326 ■) 



wing^s; in one of the Batjiin sjipcimens there is n sniiill imtcii of black scah's n]Miii 

 tlie median vein of the forewiiig. 



Hab. Morotai, 2 ?: Halmaliera (W. Doherty, August 1892), 1 6: Ternate, 1 ?: 

 Batjan (\V. Doherty, March 1892), 2 ?. " K. J 



7. Asota darsania. 



Bypsa darsania Druce, Ann. Mag. N. H. (G). XIV. p. 24 (1894) (Celebes). 



The type is said to have come from Celebes. The only specimens with reliable 

 locality we have seen were from Batjan. and Dr. Staudinger informs ns that he has 

 this species from Batjan and Halraahera. 



Antennae of <? as in egeiis. 



A. (larsania is easily distinguishable from its allies by the forewing being 

 nniformly wood-brown (see Ridgway, Nomencl. of Colours, PI. III. 19), with 

 cadmium-yellow base, which is sharj)ly limited. The upperside of the second joint 

 of the paljii is black. 



Hab. Batjan; Halmahera: Celebes (according to Druce). K. .1. 



8. Asota orboua. 



The darkest specimens of this species resemble A. (instrnlis very mucli : .1. 

 orhona is, however, always distingnisliable from that species, besides the broader 

 forewing and slightly different har]ie of cJ, by the much more extended basal orange 

 ochraceous area and the broad orange ochraceous abdominal margin of the forewing. 

 A. orbona occurs on the Northern and Southern Moluccas, the Kei and Arn Islands, 

 New Guinea and Queensland. We divide the species into five subspecies, which 

 are difficult to distinguish owing to the great variability of each subspecies and the 

 occurrence of intergraduate specimens; the differences in colour between Xhn females 

 of the various subspecies are more obvious than those between the males. The 

 blackish parts of the underside of the wings have in certain lights a purplish 

 gloss. 



There are three black costal dots present in the basal ochraceous area of the 

 forewing, the outer one of which stands much farther from the base than the outer- 

 most spot in australis, avacta, and egens; the outer spot is sometimes connected 

 with the dot behind the subcostal vein, especially in the race from the Northern 

 Moluccas. K. J. 



a. A. orbona orbona. 



Hypmi orhoim VoUenhoven, Tijihrhr. i. Enl. VI. p. 137. t. 9. f. 4 (<J)(1863) (Halmahera, Morotai) ; 



Snell., ihid. XXXI. p. U:). n. 21 (1888) {Pro pm-k) ; Swinh., Cat. Up. Utt. Oxf. I. p. ".H. n. 407 



(18112) (/v.- yj.). 

 Hypm significam vars. 8. y. Walker, L!-i Lep. Ifrl. li. .U. XXXI. p. 215 (18G4) (Morty, Batjan). 

 Agauuh significam, Kirby, Cut. Lep. Ilel. 1. p. .SSfi. n. 10 (1«9_') (Moluccas ; nee Papua). 

 Agamiix orbona Kirby, I.e. p. 38G. n. 1.^ (18il2) : Snell., /..-. XXXVIII. p. 181 (1890) f^m-lmna distinct 



from egens). 



S. The three outer bhicl; <lnts of the base of the forewing are generally rather 

 large, tlie two first often connected witii one another ; tiie two j)atelies on the disc 

 white, with a faint tint of ochraceous; the brown internervnlar streaks sometimes 

 very prominent, sometimes almost absent except near the white patches. The 

 hiudwing is mostly uniformly orange ochraceous, but Dr. Staudinger lent ns a 



