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prominent in the female sex, reaching in two of our ? ? to near the oiitor margin 

 as in the Kei Islands form. The dorsal black spots of the abdomen are always 

 transverse, and form in one femali; from Cairns half-riugs reaching down to the 

 black spots ou the spiracles. 



Hab. Queensland, 40 tj, 17 ?. K. J. 



.<■. A. heliconia kiriwinae snbsp. uov. 



(J. Thorax and abdomen orange as in ludkoida damn. Forewing above with the 

 veins faintly white in basal half ; median nervure more distinctly white ; a very 

 small pati-li at the lower angle of the cell as in ,1. heliconia ghara from the Kei 

 Islands ; base of wing black, spots scarcely visible. Hindwing above black, with a 

 rather small white discal area beyond cell ; this area does not extend to the liase: it 

 is much shaded with black scales. Underside of both wings black ; hindwing with 

 a small triaugnlar white patch at the lower angle of the cell. 



Varies considerably in the amount of white of the fore- and hindwing, but the 

 hindwing is in the lightest specimen less extended white than in any individual of 

 leuconeura and semifusca; in the white area there is beyond vein 2 a black spot, 

 mostly confluent with the black border of the wing ; the forewing has in one example 

 a white patch like semifusca. 



? . Differs from A. heliconia semifusca in the white patch of the forewing being 

 very small, sometimes nearly absent, and in the liindwing having, above and lielow, 

 a black postmedian spot beyond vein 2 ; this spot is in one individual joined to the 

 black border of the wing. 



Hah. Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands (A. S. Meek, March 1895), 6 (?, 3 ?. 



This subspecies combines the characters of ^i. heliconia ghara from Kei and 

 x\. hdiconia semifusca from the Solomon Islands, resembling the former in the 

 colour of the forewing, the latter in the colour of the hindwing. \V. R. 



,'/. A. heliconia leuconeura. 



Eyina lauconeum Butler, P. Z. S. p. 101 (1870) (N. Ireland); Kirby, Cat. Lip. Hit. I. p. IJHK. n. 13 



(1892). 

 Aijanah leuconeura, Snellen, Tijdsclu: v. Eiil. XXXI. p. 143. n. 34 (1888) (N. Ireland). 

 Hypm monycha, Hampson, Moths nf hid. I. p. 499. n. 1137 (1892) {ex p.). 



Head and thorax are bright ochraceous ; the prothoracic lobes are devoid of 

 black spots in nearly all our sixty specimens, and the mesothoracic spots are minute. 

 The black spots at the base of the forewing often fuse together; the white markings 

 between them are not nearly so obvious as in either dorijca or dama. There is a 

 roundcul white patch at the apex of the cell ; this patcli is not produced along vein 3, 

 or very sliglitly so, and is not connected with the base by a white band. The black 

 border to the hindwing is generally broader tlian in the two preceding subspecies, 

 resembling that of vl. heliconia heliconia ; the outer border is often dentate at the 

 veins, and usually convex at vein 2. 



Ilab. Bismarck Archipelago : New Ireland, Duke of York, New Britain ; 50 <?, 

 12 ?. K. J. 



z. A. heliconia semifusca. 



Hypm scmifmca Butler, Ann. Mag. S. II. (i). Xl.\.. p. 2Jo (1.S87). 



In all our specimens from the Solomon Islands (nearly one hundred in number) 

 the discal white patch of t he forewing above is more or less obviously prolonged 



