( :^oi ) 



same wiug much less conspicuous, being less yellow and smaller ; tJje brown 

 marginal line broader, less well-defined than in the Moluccau race. 



?. W/iiffs, fringe (as in J) less extended white than in hifona latoin. 



Uppeiside. Forewing : upper discal luuiform bars not heavier than the 



others, except in a ? from Waigeu and another from Salwatti, closer to the post- 

 disco-submarginal black (or brownish black) jiatches than in latona lafona, except 



in the Waigen specimen. Hindwiug : black, or blackish brown, marginal line 



broad, interrupted at the veins, much less curved between veins than in latona 

 latona ; tails shorter. 



Underside differs from that of latona latona 2 in the same way as in 6 : 

 besides, the buff yellow colour at the distal side of the median bars of lioth wings is 

 more restricted. 



Length of forewing : cf, 4ii — 43 mm. 

 ,, „ ?, 47 — 53 mm. 



riab. Dutch New Guinea. In the Tring Museum from Dorey, 2 cJc?, 3 ? S ; 

 Humboldt Bay, 3, 6 S (Doherty) : tSkroe, 8.W. New Guinea, 2 ? ? ; Kapanr, S.W. 

 New Guinea, 14 S S , 2 ? ? (W. Doherty, December 1896 to February 1S97) : 

 Waigeu, 2 i i , \ ? (Dr. Platen, rec. from Messrs. Staudinger and Bang-Haas) : 

 Salawatti, 1 ? (H. Kiihn). 



Ti/pe ot papuensis in coll. Grose-Smith from coll. Saunders. 



The three Humboldt Bay examples (described by Blr. Grose-Smith as cimonidea) 

 approach the following subspecies in the median bars SC"' — R- of the upperside ot 

 the forewing standing closer to the black border of the wing than in the ordinary 

 individuals of papuensis ; in one of the three individuals the median bars R- — M'- 

 are marked on the upperside of the forewing, and there are tawny, jiostdiscal, 

 rather obscure, Innules in the black border of the forewing between R- and SM" : 

 on the hindwing of this specimen, above, the tawny admarginal interspaces 

 R' — SM- are marked, the three last are especially clearly defined, and the black 

 postdisco-submarginal patches R'— SM- are partly well-defined. 



e. Ch. latona stephanus Hothsch., subsp. nov. 



C'liamxcs lalutiii r. riiiioiiides, Staudinger («u« Grose-Smitb, 1894), /<■/.< YII. p. 1'2() (1894) (Kon- 



stantinhafen). 

 Charaxcs affiiiis yar. papuensis, Hagen, .falirb. Xass. \'ei: Xtil. L. p. 94. n. 160(1897; (Germ. N. 



Guinea). 



Though the country inhabited by the present subspecies is farther away from 

 the Moluccas than the area occupied by the preceding subspecies {papui'nsi-i), ('It. 

 latona stephanus is nevertheless intermediate in characters between latona papuensis 

 from Dutch New Guinea and latona latona from the Northern Moluccas. This fact 

 is so interesting and is of so high importance for the study of geographical variation, 

 that we must fix the knowledge of it by giving a name to the race occupying the 

 eastern part of northern New Guinea. 



<?. Forewing above with the black border broader in front than in latona 

 papuensis, its inner edge more irregular ; median bars S( >' — R^ entirely fused witli 



black border, or with a small fulvous spot each at the distal side. Hindwing 



as in papuensis, but the tails very short as a rule, and the black border on the wliole 

 a little narrower. 



Underside as in papuensis. 



