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(postdiscal; dot or dash which is separated from a similar, but loss obvious, spot by 

 whitish scales; from the postdiscal dots extend basad fine, yellow, lines situated at 



the internervular folds R''— S.M-, these lines sometimes very faint. Hindwing: 



discal interspace very much narrowed between R-' and M', the median bars R-— M' 

 not far from the discal series, esjiecially bar R'— M' ; discal bars luniform, the 

 posterior ones very feebly arched, the series very slightly convex from SC;*— M', 

 reaching SM- much nearer tip of that vein than in latona : postdiscal bars slate- 

 black, much less arched than in lulona, the series almost straight. 



Length of fore wing : i, 38—44 mm. 

 ), „ ? , -50—53 mm. 



Ilab. Celebes, 23 c?cJ, 7 ? ? in the Tring Museum from South Celebes : Maros 

 country (W. Doherty, August— September 1891), Patunuang (H. Fruhstorfer, 

 January 1896) ; Macassar (Wallace) ; Menado (Dr. Meyer) ; North Celebes : 

 Minahassa (Dr. Platen), Toli-Toli (H. Fruhstorfer, November— December, 1895), 

 Dongala, north of Palos Bay (W. Doherty, August— September 1806). 



There are two specimens in the Felder collection which are labelled " Amboina. 

 Loniuin." The British Museum received from the Godman and Salvin collection 

 also a specimen of ajjiids from " Amboina," another from " Aru " (both standing in 

 Dr. Butler's Revision of Ckaraxes under latonaW), and a third from " Ternate." All 

 these specimens are identical with affinis, and those localities are certainly erroneous. 

 We know from experience that the material bom/kt by travellers in the Dutch East 

 Indies from cajitains, natives or dealers, is often wholly unreliable as regards 

 localities, specimens from different islands being often mixed together ; we have 

 found Javanese species among material from Amboina, Celebes sjiecies in a lot from 

 Java, Java examples in a collection said to be from Timor, etc., forms of which 

 we are absolutely certain that they do not occur in the localities from which the 

 specimens were said to come. Nobody will convince ns that ( 'It. a/jjins occurs on 

 Ternate, Amboina and Aru, unless he is able to show authentic specimens, collected 

 recently by careful scientists.* 



Felder's Ck. demonax is identical with uffiids and not a car., as Dr. Butler says 

 (l.c.~)\ FeUer's parme?don, erroneously said by Dr. Butler (I.e.) to be a synonym of 

 lato?ia, is also a0nis, but differs from the average specimen of affitds in the anal 

 angle of the hindwing being more produced, and in the second tail being scarcely 

 indicated. 



The 7Ha/es of ajfini.-i are easily distinguished from all more western species by 

 the black admarginal line of the hindwing and the structure of the penis ; from 

 latona, moreover, by the pattern; Vae JhrMle resembles somewhat fhe female of 

 latona, but the spatulato upper tail, the extremely short second tail, and the 

 different position of the discal lunnles of the iipperside of the forewing and of the 

 discal and jiostdiscal lunules of the underside of the hindwing are characters by 

 which affinh can readily be recognised. 



A cJ in the Tring Museum without locality, but clearly belonging to affinis 

 according to pattern and penis, has all the tawny postdiscal interspaces of the 

 forewing vestigial, the specimen somewhat resembling in this character Gh. 

 aristogiton. 



Professor Kukenthal seems to have bought up a great many of the Lepidoptera recorded by 

 Dr. Pagenetecber, I.e. ; the list furnishes illustrations of what we said above, and should be used with 

 caution. 



