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completely isolated, patches C — R' fused witli one another, but separated from the 

 black, heavy, marginal line by a small, orange tawny, admarginal spot, the distance 

 from jiroximal edge of black patches to tip of 8(,'- somewhat sliorter than tlie 

 distance from the same point to black median bars ; tails very short. 



Underside much more tawny orange, much brighter, than in popuensis and 

 stephanus ; discal interspaces of fore- and hiudwing at outside of median bars 

 ])artly buff yellow as in ? ? of the allied forms ; postdiscal interspaces of hiudwing 

 wider, and the admarginal ones wax yellow. 



?. Wings, upperside, as in papuensis, bnt the discal Inuiform bars of the 

 forewing more tawny, somewhat thinner, and the marginal line of the hiudwing 

 also thinner, more widely separated info lunnles at the veins. 



On the underside the discal lunnles of both wings are less blackish, the discal 

 interspaces are more extended pale buff at the median bars, the postdiscal interspaces 

 of both wings and the admarginal ones of the hindwing are wider than in the races 

 from northern and western New Guinea ; tails as in p<(puensis. 



Length of forewing : cJ, 40 mm. 

 „ „ „ ? , 52—54 mm. 



llab. Simbang, Huon Golfe, German New Guinea: 1 i {t'/pc), December 10th 

 1894 (Dr. Hageu), 1 ?, January 2Uth 1895 (Dr. Hagen), 1 ? ((,!apt. Webster). 



i. Ch. latona leto. 



Charaxes latona leto Rothschild, Nov. ZooL. V. p. 97. n. 2 (1898) (Goodenough ; Ferguason). 



£?. Agrees with C/i. latona gigantea, except in the following particulars : — 



Upperside. Forewing : a series of browu discal luniform bars standing 



2J mm. from the black border of the wing ; these bars are extremely faint in 

 gigantea and only 1 mm. distant from the black border, which is broader in gigantea 

 than in leto, bar SC^ — R' twice as wide in leto, the tawny orange intersjjace distal 



of it larger than in gigantea, no tawny orange interstitial spot SC— SC^ 



Hindwing : postdisco-submarginal black patches smaller, admarginal orange tawny 

 interstices larger, than in gigantea. 



Underside : no small yellowish buff discal patches at outer side of median bars, 

 bnt ground-colour in discal interspaces of forewing proximally paler than elsewhere ; 

 hindwing with a greyish plumbeous gloss, except a marginal aud a postdiscal band. 



? . Unknown. 



Length of forewing : c?, 45 — 47 mm. 



Ilab. D'Entrecasteaux Islands : Goodenough I., 1 tS Qj/pe) (A. S. Meek, 

 December 1896), Fergusson 1., 1 J (A. S. Meek, between September and December 

 1894). 



J. Ch. latona meridionalis Rothsch., subsp. nov. 



t?. The specimens in which the discal lunulas of the forewing above are least 

 isolated (tgpe) agree almost with gigantea, but can be distinguished by the discal 

 lunnles R^— M-, which are almost completely fused with the black border of the 

 wing, being more black ; further, by the median bars C — R' of the hiudwing being 

 absent or very feeble ; the postdisco-submarginal patches C— R^ of the hindwing 

 are, moreover, fused with the heavy marginal bars, but remain separated from each 



