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ON SOME NEW OE EAEE LEPIDOPTEEA OF THE 

 OLD-WOELD EEGIONS. 



Bt the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. 



NYMPHALIDAE. 

 1. Charaxes latona diana .subsp. uov. 



(J. Upperside : forewing, the black colour more extended than in cimon, to 

 which form of latona the present subspecies comes nearest: the black spots between 

 apical black area and black bar at apex of cell included into the black area ; binder 

 margin black to near middle. Hindwing, marginal black area also wider than in 

 cimon, without snbmarginal spots, except one near anal angle ; median lilack bars 

 between costal margin and apex of cell heavy, interspace between them and black 

 marginal area lighter, ground-colour at liasal side of the bars rather dai-ker, than 

 rest of the brown area of the wing. 



Underside of both wings darker than in cimon, but median line of black bars 

 bordered with white outwardly, and ground-colour just outside these bars pinkish 

 white between vein 5 and hindmargin of forewing, and between veins 8 and 5 of 

 hindwing. 



? . The markings in the same position as in the other forms of latona, but the 

 black colour very heavy, and the yellow colour partly replaced by white. 



Upperside : forewing, basal region dark russet-brown ; the five black bars in 

 middle of wing very heavy, the two upper ones ibrmiug a large black patch; the 

 two series of markings in outer half of wing, separated from one another by a black 

 zigzag line, are white in diana, not yellow as in the other forms of latona; sub- 

 marginal black spots much larger than in cimon, merged together with the black 

 outer margin of the wing, except the last, which is partly separated from the marginal 

 border by a tawny line. 



Hindwing russet-tawny; postcostal black median bars as in (J, ground-colour 

 at their basal side dark brown, three white or nearly white patches at their outer 

 side; a discal line of six or seven black lunules crosses the wing about midway 

 between cell and black snbmarginal patches; interspaces between the lunules and 

 snbmarginal patches tawu)', except that between veins and T; first black lunule in 

 one of the two specimens not separated from the black submarginal patch. Sub- 

 marginal patches much larger than in all other latona forms, with minute white 

 centres, all touching each other, except the last two ; interspaces between these 

 patches and the black marginal border bright tawny ochraceous. Tails broad. 



Underside differs from that of cimon ? in the ground-colour within cell of 

 forewing, outside the median black line of both wings, and between the two sub- 

 basal series of bars of hindwing, being white ; the middle of the forewing between 

 discal black line and cell also shaded with white; submarginal spots of forewing 

 white, brown at their basal side. 



Ha.b. New Hanover, Bismarck Archipelago, 1 S,2 ? ? (Capt. H. C. Webster, 

 February and March 1897). 



