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much paler and disfcally straight, the snbapical spots somewhat smaller; himlwiiig 

 with a yellowish white costal patch reaching down to cell. 



?. Black colour of uppersidr, rather more extended than in ? of niepelH, the 

 yellow area of forewiug more straight distally ; basal half of hindwing grey, being 

 yellow externally between SC- and R', or a little bej'oud these veins. 



On the underside the yellow area of the forewing is paler than in niepelti ? , 

 less extended and distally straight ; tlie hindwing bears a yellowish white costal 

 patch which does not reach beyond R', not being triangular as in S, but. 

 longitudinal. 



Ilnb. Owgarra, north of head of Aroa River, May 190'3. A series, but most 

 specimens in bad condition. 



ERYCINIDAE. 

 10. Abisara albiplaga avera subsp. nov. (PI. II. f. 23. S). 



i. Similar to the S of A. a. albiplaga from Am, both wings more obtuse, 

 orange band of forewing, above, narrower ; black costal area of hindwing larger, 

 orange area less acutely triangular, less broad behind, black marginal spots larger. 

 On the underside the band of the forewing is posteriorly narrower, and the black 

 snbmarginal and marginal spots of the hindwing are much larger.* 



Hah. Upper Aroa River. One specimen. 



20. Abisara weiskei (PI. III. f. 28. ?). 



(J. Ahimra weiskei Rothschild, Nui\ Zonl. viii. p. 218. 404. t. 10. f. 2 (1902) (Aroa R.). 



Mr. A S. Meek found a ¥ specimen of an Abisara which belongs, doubtless, 

 to the species of which we have described and figured the S as Abisara iveishei, I.e. 



This ? , as will be seen from the figure, is remarkably different from the ? ? 

 of srr/ecia and satraps in the l)road-l)anded forewing and deeply scalloped and 

 almost uniformly olivaceous black hindwing. The white band of the forewing, 

 upperside, is strongly narrowed in front, but there is a transverse spot in the cell 

 which stands posteriorly so close to the baud as to give the latter the appearance 

 of being forked. The hindwing is purplish black on disc ; it bears a series 

 of black snbmarginal spots more or less bordered with pale grey proximally ; 

 anterior admarginal interspaces faintly tinged with tawny ; prominent white 

 fringe-spots. 



Underside pale drab from base to disc. Forewing : white band as above, 



white cell-bar continuous with it behind, a round spot proximally of this bar, the 

 rounded interspace between bar and band, and the wing from the band outwards 

 Vandyke-brown, paler at apex, white postdiscal line broad, continuous, shaded with 

 orange behind. Hindwing : two spots in cell, a curved median row of seven 



* We have one ^ of this species from Great Key, April 189G (Webster), which differs from the Am 

 and New Guinea forms as follows: — Ujfpcvside : forewing more elongate, orange baud only two-thirds 

 the width of that of avera, less sharply defined proximally, shorter, reaching just beyond M'-', the area 

 between band and hinder angle of wing being black ; orange area of hindwing as broad behind as in the 

 Aru form ; black area more restricted ; marginal spots more rounded than in avt-ra, shorter. On the 

 underside the band of the forewing is followed by a whitish spot M- — SiP ; black submarginal spots of 

 hindwing very large as compared with the other two forms, larger than the interspaces between them anil 

 the brown-black area. We name this subspecies : 



Abisara albiplaga keiana subsp. nov. (PI. II. f. 24. (J). 



