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(c) : T. helena, hephaestus (Feld.) from Celebes and Saleyer. 



This species can be expected to be found farther east than Sambawa, and iiiav 

 also occur in the Southern Philippines, Sulu Islands, Tonkin, and S. China. I have 

 seen specimens said to be from one and the other of these localities whicli did not 

 exhibit any differences from tlie Ja\'an helena, and I must therefore conclude that 

 the habitat of those individuals was incorrect. 



(n): T. helena (I-), forma tvp. \_(i, ?, metam.]. 



cJ. The forewings vary above from being uniformly lilack to being marked witii 

 broad, whitish, adnervular streaks ; these streaks reach often from the cell to near the 

 outer margin, and are situated at all the nervules ; those at the lower median vein are 

 the shortest and do not reach the cell. Below, the forewings vary in a similar way 

 to above, but they are apparently never entirely devoid of white scales, though these 

 scales are often only a few in number. The apex of the cell is sometimes whitish, 

 especially below. 



In most individuals the cellule between the costal and subcostal nervules is all 

 black ; in some examples there appears a small submarginal yellow spot, and in 

 others a second, discal, linear mark, which is seldom joined to the submarginal spot. 

 The number of the subdiscal black spots \aries from 5 to ; the first and last are the 

 largest ; the first is often much enlarged. The spots disappear as follows : first 2, 3, 4 ; 

 then I ; last 5. 



The abdomen has mostly a buffisli mark above on the middle of the third, 

 fourth, and fifth segments. 



5 . Above, the forewings are brownish black, with very faint whitish adnervular 

 streaks ; the apex of the cell a very little paler than the rest of the cell. From this 

 extreme form, the forewings vary to having the outer half (including the apical third 

 or fourth of the cell) nearly all white, suffused-with black scales. Below, the white 

 streaks are always present, and vary in length and breadth enormously. 



The basal-costal black region of the hindwings extends in nearly all specimens 

 beyond the origin of the subcostal nerviile ; sometimes it reaches as far as the second 

 discocellular veinlet. Between the costal and subcostal veins there is seldom a 

 yellow submarginal spot. Tlie po.sterior yellow discal spot reaches often the base of 

 the wing. The subdiscal black markings are exceedingly variable in size ; mostly 

 they are joined to the black border of the wing, but stand often isolated ; they are 

 liable to obliteration, though they disajipear less often than in the male. In Oberthiir's 

 T. Jupiter all these spots are absent. I have a specimen in which the second, third, 

 and fourth spots are oljsolete above. 



The abdomen is \'ellow below and at tlie sides; each segment bears two black 

 spots on the underside; the sjiots of the fii^t and second are mostly merged to~efher 

 to one large mark. 



(«-) : nh. jiipilcr (Obcrtli.j. 



?. Ornithiifitfni Ju2>ne)- Oberthur, El. d'Enl. IV. p. :il. ii. 11. t. 1. t. 1 (1879) (.J:iv;i) : Fickert, 

 Ziiul Jahrhiirh. p. 741. n. 10 (LSSHl. 



Hindwings devoid of subdiscal black spots. 



{h''): ab. pliiio (I'Vld.j. 



$ OrnithopUra hclincoii var., Boisduval, Sjiec. Gfn. Lep. I. p. 179. sub n. 7 ('1831!) (Javal. 

 ? . Papilin phdo Felder, Va-h. ■-. h. Ges. Wiin p. 291. ii. 80 (ISfiii) ('■ patria ? '' ; nom. mi(l') ; id., 

 Eeise Xorani, Lip. I. p. 18. n. 9 (18C5) (" patria ? "). 



