( 3G1 ) 



spots are very large, the prothoracic and mesothoracic lobes being lilack witli a 

 yellow border. On the underside of the hindwing the black median spot between 

 veins 7 and 8 is small, often absent. The yellow colour of the base of the forewing 

 is sometimes replaced by white. 



The insect which Snellen describes as albifera var. siifusa from Flores is not a 

 variety oi albifera Snell. ncc Feld. = plana Wlk., but a species allied to A. istkmia. 



Hah. In the Tring Bluseum from Java, Bali, Lombok, Sambawa, Samba, 

 Flores, Adonara, Alor, Timor, Timorhiut = Teuimber, and Palo Laut (soatli of 

 Borneo); 42 (?, 28 ?. K. J. 



h. A. plana cincta subsp. nov. 



Bypsa complaim Walker, List Lep. Ilet. B. M. XXXI. p. 213 (?, nee S) (18G4) (Buru ; nee 

 Timor); Butl., Tr. Ent. Sue. Land. p. 316. n. 8 (1875) (Buru ; ikc Timor) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Bet. 

 I. p. 389. n. IG (1892) (Buru ; nee Timor) ; Hamps., Moths of Lidia I. p. 500. n. lUO (1892) 

 (,Prop.) ; Swinh., Cat. Lep. Bet. Mus. Oxf. I. p. 90. n. 398 (1892) (Buru). 



The second joint of the palpi is more extended black than in plana plana; 

 the black spots at the base of the forewing form two transverse bauds ; the white 

 patch at the apex of the cell is rather widely separated from the white area; the 

 latter is somewhat reduced in lengtli, and its anterior edge is very feebly notched ; 

 the submedian fold is marked with brown scales. The black border of the hindwing 

 is nearly of even width from the apex of the wing to the submedian vein, and 

 broader than in any other race, measuring 2\ mm. in width at vein 2. On the 

 underside the black spot at the apex of the cell of the forewing is small ; hindwing 

 with one small black spot only, situated at the apex of the cell. Thoracical spots 

 as large as in 'plana plana ; dorsal plates of all abdominal segments ringed with 

 black ; black rings twice as broad as the yellow rings ; ventral plates with large 

 black lateral spots. 



As Walker describes as complana first a specimen from Timor and then adds 

 the description of a Buru specimen, believing his Timor and Bnru individuals to be 

 sexes of the same " species," the name of complana must be kept for the Timor 

 insect, and as the latter is, to our present knowledge, not separable from the Javan 

 plana, has to sink as a synonym oi plana plana. 



Hub. Burn (W. Doherty, March 1897), 2 cJ, 3 ? {type ?). W. R. 



i. A. plana commixta subsp. nov. 



cJ. The costal black spots at the base of the forewing merged together, the 

 three spots at the base of the cell also confluent, the outer spots not forming u 

 transverse band; white patch near apex of cell small (2i mm. long), widely separated 

 from the white area ; the latter as in plana jilana, but the submedian fold with 

 brown scales. Hindwing with a faint brown postmedian spot behind vein 2 and a 

 small spot at the apex of the cell. On the underside the hindwing has an elongate 

 mark in the middle between veins 7 and 8 (length of spot 4 mm.), a minute dot in 

 the middle of the cell, a faint postmedian spot between veins 5 and 0, another behind 

 vein ?., and a well marked though small spot at the end of the cell ; the postmedian 

 spots much smaller than in the Indo-Malayan races of plana. The black spots on 

 the thorax smaller thau in plana plana, especially those on the patagia ; abdomen 

 as in jjlana plana. 



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