r 566 ) 



sometimes obsolete, all with black and lilnish wliito jiroximal borders: submnrginal 

 white dots as above, the last ones minute or obsolete, followed bv the heavier black 

 submarginal s])<its ; aduiarginal rcddisli nifon^ spots transverse, separated from 

 each other. 



?. Kesembles the 6; biidy buiicath more whitish, underside of palpi cream- 

 colonr. Wings fiboce somewhat paler brown, the white markings rather larger, and 

 the postdiscal rufous red and admarginal reddish rufons spots of the hindwing less 

 red : postdiscal rufous red spots with a glaucous white Innnle at ])roxiniaI side. 



L nilir^idc much more clayish than in i ; silvery scaling beyond discal bars 

 of forewing and in basal and abdominal region of hindwing heavier : the glaucous 

 white proximal borders of the red postdiscal spots of the hiudwing also heavier, and 

 there is silvery sealing in snbmarginal interspace lietween SC'- and R-. 



Length 6 forewing, costal margin ;57 nun., internal margin 28 mm. 

 „ „ hindwing, „ 22 ., „ 26 „ 



„ ? forewing, „ 43 „ „ 31 ,, 



., liindwing, ,. 2fi ., „ 3] 



Hdh. Fiji Islands : Suva, Viti Levu, November 181)4, wet season (Woodford) : 

 5 dS, 1 ¥. Hewitson gave as locality of this insect "Tort Denison, Australia." 

 Mr. Diimel, from whom Hewitson received the specimen, probably procured it from 

 a South Sea skipper. The insect certainly does not occur in Australia ; the Kuliipis 

 and ( '/iiim.irs of the East are all split up into so well-marked geogra])hical forms 

 tliat the occurrence of the same species in Australia and Fiji, witliout it liaving 

 developed into geographical races, appears to be incredible. 



Vttriation. — The white markings vary very much in extent ; one of our specimens 

 has the discal band of the forewing above 7 mm. wide behind. The white discal 

 sealing of the upperside of the hindwing has sometimes nearly disappeared, being 

 indicated only by a few creamy scales near tlu^ end of the cell. Tlie individuals 

 {6 S , ? ?) which have the white discal band well developed below, and those in 

 which it is very obscure or obsolete, occur during the same season, as Mr. Woodford 

 obtained both forms at Suva, Viti Levu, in November, during the rainy season. 

 The discal liar U" — D^ of the forewing below stands often just below the median 

 har D'— D-'. 



2. Eulepis gamma (Fig. 18. 18a, c?). 

 Charaxes gammii Latliy, FmIom. XXXI. p. 228 (1898) (New Caledonia ?). 



S- Boflji above olivaceous black, beneath grey, underside of i)alpi and anterior 

 legs nearly cream-colour ; head above with four creamy dots, last seven segments of 

 antennae rufons brown. 



Wiiiy.'i above brownish black. Forewing : a discal and subniarginal series of 



creamy white spots; discal spots SC' — R- somewhat smaller than sjiot 1{-' — H', 

 which stands close to cell, spot It^— M' very small, the following two the largest ; 



of the snbmarginal dots the firsst and third are minute. Hindwing : a creamy 



white discal band from costal margin to R', nearly straight, barely 2J mm. wide, its 

 inner edge sinuate behind R', outer edge convex posteriorly ; a series of three 

 postdiscal Inniform spots from R' to SM'-, consisting of rufons and cream-coloured 

 scales ; snbmarginal spots cream-colour, the first tlie largest, diiinieler about •.' mm.. 



