( 68) 



? . Uppenide macli darker than in arsino'e, henoe the cell-bars and the bars 

 in marginal region not very conspicnous, mummy-brown. A broad pure white 

 band across disc, 9i to lOi mm. wide at SC'*, its inner edge oblique (as line of bars 

 in S), indented at U', M' and M-, very obliqae between (SM'j and SM- ; the band 

 is limited distally betweea SC'^ and 11- by two blackish brown luuules, the ni)per 

 lunule nearly entirely fused with the blackish brown marginal area, there being 

 only a very few white scales at its distal side ; the second Innnle more distinct, 

 separated by a luniform white spot from the band ; a third, very indistinct, brown 

 lunnle in the white baud between R- and U' ; postdiscal bars appearing as black 

 spots jnst at the outer edge of the band between U- and SM- ; two small 

 submarginal white dots between SC^ and It', the second in one of the two specimens 



absent. Hindwing mummy-brown up to median line of bars ; these bars heavy 



as in <S, followed by a russet tawny baud, which becomes grey behind C, outer 

 edge of band ill-defiued, nearly straight, touching eye-spots ; area between this 

 band and submarginal Hue of bars darker brown ; eye-spots with a rather large 

 blue dot. 



Underside russet, outer half paler. Forewing : white band as above, discal 



and postdiscal luniform bars feeble, submarginal line indistinct behind, admarginal 



distinct, but not strongly marked. Hindwing: discal band much paler than 



above, becoming whitish from R' to C. 



Hah. Laiwui, Obi I., September 1897 (W. Doherty), 5 tJJ, 2 ? ?. 



Easily distinguished from all races of arainoc by the obliipiely placed series 

 of median bars of the forewing. 



4. Acraea parce buruensis subsp. no v. . 



c? ?. Differs from .1. parce parce Stand., Ins IX. p. 193. t. 1. f. 8 (1896J, from 

 Mangiola, Sula Archipelago, in the following points : The basal half of the forewing 

 from cell to internal margin is much more diaphanous, there being much less black 

 scales on the npperside. On the underside of the hindwing the discal band and 

 the submarginal spots are more ochreous ; the partially scaleless patch in and 

 before cell is very variable in extent, but it is always much smaller than in the 

 Mangiola race, the posterior half of the cell remaining always black ; the subbasal 

 I)atch between costal and subcostal nervules is also much smaller, often absent. 

 The submarginal spots are generally somewhat smaller than in parce puree ; the 

 posterior ones much shaded with black in 3, sometimes scarcely traceable. 



Ilab. Mount Mada, Burn, Soptem])er 1898, 3000 feet (Dumas). 



PIERIDAE. 



5. Delias funerea buruana subsp. nov. 



S. Differs from the Halmahera form oi m\ funerea, figured in Smith & Kirby, 

 Rhop. Exot. II. JJelias t. VI. f. 1. 2 (1890), in the apex of the forewing above, 

 the fringe of the forewing (except at inner angle) and of the hindwing, being black ; 

 the apical black area is small, extending 7 mm. along lower subcostals, but black 

 colour of cellule before R- very restricted. 



Underside : black apical area of forewing much smaller than m funerea funerea, 

 {he spots in it yellow, not white. Red markings of hindwing thinner, outer margin 

 shaded with wliite scales. 



Ilab. Mount Mada, Burn, September ls98, 3000 feet (Dumas). 



