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criton, etc., the before-mentioned iifliiervular yellow or huffish lines have disapiieareil. 

 but appear again in some specimens, and then stand either isolated or are joined to 

 the marginal huffish spots, and form in the latter case the U-shaped mark. 



5. The white markings of the forewings are mucli more pronnneut than in the 

 S, especially on the upperside ; below there is a geminate streak along the sub- 

 median vein, which is absent from the other sex. The yellow area of the hindwings 

 is rather reduced; it consists of a cellular mark that occupies about half of the cell, 

 and of six discal markings, of which the first is very .small, and the last, which is much 

 suffused with lilack, is whitish, not yellow. The discal black markings, four or five 

 in number, are rather narrow and long, and stand nearer to the cell than to the outer 

 margin, the black marginal border being very broad; below there are two or three 

 minute spots between the costal margin and the upper discoidal nervule, which 

 correspond to those portions of the discal yellow area which lie between tlie discal 

 black margins and the black marginal border. 



{Ir) : ? -ah. jjuflms (Oberth.). 



5 . Oniilliiijiln-ii liiili/ilirtJii ;iberr. (an var. '!) pullem Oherthiir, I'l. tV Eiil. IV. p. Ilo. sub n. 7 (1R7!I) 



(Celebe.sj. 

 ?. Ornithojitera haliphron var. bauermauni Ruber, Iris I. p. I'.l (1885) ( J p.p. ; K.-ibiit Islaud). 



Streaks of the forewings whiter than in typical haliphron ; base of the forewings 

 and body almost fawn-colour. 



Hah. Celebes (9 cJ, 4 ?); Saleyer (1 cJ, 1 ?); Kabia Island. 



(h)- T. haliphron naias (Doherty) [cJ, ?]. 



cj ? . Driiithf/itera naliix Doherty, Juurn. .U. Sue. Bi-nr/. p. 193. n. IIG (1891) (Sumba : commou). 

 (J ?. (Iriiilliuptem imias var. sambnimna Doherty, I.e. p. 104. sub n. 116 (1891) (Sambawa). 

 cJ ? . Ontithuptera soa-atn Staudiager, Iris IV. p. 71 (1891) (Wetter ; Sambawa) ; id.. I.e. VI. p. 83. 

 t. l.f. 1 ((^) (1893) (Wetter). 



Though I have not seen Sumba specimens, I have, judging from Doherty's 

 description of naias, no doubt that all the specimens from Sambawa, Alor, Adonara, 

 and Wetter belong to this .subspecies. The characters by which Doherty separates 

 sambawanus from naias are not at all constant in the Sambawa examples, many of 

 the latter belonging to typical ■n.fflj'fts, others to sambawanus; the specimens from 

 the other localities are just as variable as, and do not differ from my individuals from 

 Samliawa. As the number and size of the yellow spots of the hindwings is so variable 

 in all tlie allied insects, I think it advi.sable to treat the aberration sambaivaims 

 as a mere synonym, else we shall have to bestow names u]ion a gioal number of 

 individual aberrations of hnUjihron, jilalo, iris, criton, etc. 



d. The white streaks on the imderside of the forewings are narrower than in 

 haliphron (Boisd.). The hindwungs are much more pointed at the anal angle ; the 

 discal yellow area is similar to that of T. haliphron cJ-ab. bauermanni (K6her), but 

 extends farther towards the base; the first discal spot, between the costal and sub- 

 costal veins, is larger ; the others become gradually shorter ; there are four or five discal 

 spots, the fifth being mostly small or obliterated. The cellular sjiot extends mostly 

 from the subcostal vein, half-way between the base of the wing and the origin of the 

 subcostal nervule, to the origin of the second discoidal vein ; sometimes it is much 

 broader at the apex of (he cell, extending as far as the origin of the second median 

 nervule, 



