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Aganaisauslra!ii!,P;igenstccheT,Jalirb. Nass. P'cr. iV(i<. p. G9 (1884) (Amboina); id., I.e. p.ll.'i.n. 25G 

 (1888) (Aiuboina) ; Kirby, Gil. Lep. Utt. I. p. 38G. n. 8 (1892) {Prop). 



$. Black spots on patagia small. Forewing above without whitish iiervular 

 lines. Black border to hindwing sinnate between the veins, triangularly jiroduced 

 upon vein 2. 



Vndersiide : forewing with the yellow diseal area between veins 2 and (i much 

 reduced, being represented only by three small spots ; hindmug with the black 

 border extending along the costal margin to halfway to the base ; costal and sub- 

 costal veins black. The external wliite patch on the forewing varies a good deal in 

 size and shape, being in one specimen 2 mm. broad and 31 mm. long, wliile in 

 another the numbers are 4 and 4 J respectively: the ty2)e-specimen holds an inter- 

 mediate position. The yellow diseal area of the forewing below is also variable in 

 size, but is always cut up into spots by black veins. There are often black postmedian 

 spots marked on the underside of the hindwing. 



?. The black border to the hindwing is generally narrower than in the male; 

 it reaches close to the anal angle. On the undersif/e the black border is mostly 

 indented at the veins; the diseal ]iart of tlie yellow area of the underside of the 

 forewing is wider than in cJ. 



riab. Amboiua (W. Dolierty, Febrnary 1802), c?, 6 ? ; Burn, 1 ?. 



In a male ex coll. Felder, also from Amboiua, the exterior ])atcli of the forewing 

 above includes a black dot. W. H. 



d. A. australis septentrionalis subsp. nov. 



Agrees with sinuosa in the veins of the forewing above not being whitish, but 

 differs in the black spots on the patagia being three times the size of those oi sinuosa, 

 in the basal creamy white patch of the forewing being larger, and in the diseal part 

 of the yellow area of the forewing beneath being much more extended, and not cut 

 by black veins in cJ. The black border to the hindwing is indented at tlie veins 

 above and below, especially in ? , sometimes entire in c? ; in ? the border does not 

 reach beyond the submedian fold, is narrower than in sinuosa, and not or scarcely 

 dilated at vein 2 ; below, the costal black sjiot is either separated from the border 

 in ?, or connected with it by a thin marginal line. K female from (iilolo in coll. 

 Felder, otherwise agreeing with septentrionalis, has tlie border of the hindwing 

 sinnose, as it is in sinuosa. 



Hub. Halmahera (W. Doherty, August 1892), I c?, 1 ?; Ternate, 2 c?, 1 ? ; 

 Batjan (W. Doherty, March 1892), 1 S {type), 2 ?. W. T?. 



c. A. australis lineata subsp. nov. 



Aganais australis, Pagenatecher (nee BoisduviJ, 1832), Jalirb. Xas.i. Vet: Nat. p. 123. n. 34 (1886) 

 (Kei). 



(Jlosely resembling aeijiialis, but all the: v'ins of the forewing are creamy white, 

 lu the/emale there occurs an interesting variation, the two creamy white patches of 

 the forewing being sometimes connected with one another by means of a streak 

 situated upon the median vein. 



It is worthy of note that lineata differs from aequalis in the same character in 

 which yhara differs from dorijca, altliongh lineata and ghara, and aequalis and 

 dori/ca, are not " mimicking '' each other respectively. The presence of the whitish 



