BY G. A. WATERIIOLSK. 469 



tornus iliisteil with pale uietallic-blue scales; a series of iuterrupted terminal 

 liues white, towards tornus dusted with pale metallit-blue ; costa towards base 

 and upiier edge of cell pale metallic-blue, extending- as two pale blue bars into 

 cell, the outer the larger; an irregular pale blue bantl beyond end of cell. Cilia 

 white, at terminations of veins black. Hindwing brown; costa and bar at end of 

 cell red-bro\yn; basal half of wing dusted with white scales; discal series of 

 spots pale metallic lilue; tornus black; a series of broad tenninal lines white, to- 

 wards tornus pale metallic-blue : a white line on dorsum near tornus, above which 

 is an irregular pale blue area. Cilia white, at terminations of veins black. 



? as in male, larger, more highly coloured beneath. The pale metallic mark- 

 ings in both sexes appear greenish in some directions. 



Hub. — Waidoi, Fiji. Four specimens caught by Mr. Sinunonds, May. July, 

 and August, 1919. One male, Nasogoto. Navai. Fiji, caught by Mr. E. ,) . 

 Goddard. Feb.. 1905. 



This species has puzzled me very much, coming as it dues from a locality 

 where the race of H. bolina is extremely variable, but the different white band 

 above and the different underside to the hindwing do not place it with bolina, of 

 which I have numbers of Fijian specimens. Mr. Simmonds, who has caught 

 bolina, is confident it is distinct. He tells me that it is a purely mountain species, 

 lives in the rain forest and, like all butterflies in Fiji, it responds readily to the 

 fii-st glimpse of sunshine and is only found along the rivers, where they rise 

 rapidly to the mountains. At one time 1 tliought it might be an extreme eastern 

 race of II. alimena. 



Issoria egista Cram. 



The following races have been described from the South Pacific, — gaberti from 

 Tahiti, samoana from Samoa, bowdenia from Tonga, sci/llaria from Lifu, Loyalty 

 Is., and shortlandica from the Solomoii Is. Of these, the race from Samoa is the 

 most distinct. To these I now add races from the New Hebrides and Fiji. 

 From the typical form from the southern Moluccas, the eastern races differ chiefly 

 in their jialer upper sides, the nari'ower dark liorflers to the wing's and the much 

 smaller dark spots on the underside. 



Ifisoria egista ritieiinifi. n. suhsp. 



c?. Above. Forewing bright orange; apex and termen narrowly black; bar 

 beyond cell and subapical bar black. Hin<hving bright orange; tcrnien narrowly 

 black. 



Beneath. Forewing orange-red; a series of cell bars brown; a whitish bar 

 beyond end of cell; between veins 5 and 6 a large whitish spot; a discal series of 

 pale bluish lunules inwardly edged brown. Hindwing orange-red; a series of 

 pale bluish lunules outwardly edged brown; beyond is an indication of a series of 

 brown dots; an interrupted brown subterminal line from apex to vein 3. 



Hab. — Labasa. Yanua Levu. Fiji, Mar.. 1908, caught by Mr. R. N. Ross. 



This race has much narrower dark borders to the forewings above than the 

 Australian propinqua or scyllaria, and on the under side the pale discal spots 

 are more prominent, whilst the discal brown spots have almost disappeared. It 

 is intermediate between scyllaria and samoana. 



Issoria egista hebridina, n. subsp. 



<?. This race occupies an intermediate place between intiensis and sci/Uaria. 

 Above, the bordei-s to the wing's are not so narrow as in vitiensis, a discal series 



