196 THE ENTOMOLdOGIST. 



Junonid lavinta var. mclanina, subsp. nov. 



(J ? . Upperside blackish-brown, without any blue gloss ; all 

 the usual red bands and markings absent except the two bars in the 

 cell of the fore wings. The oblique discal and transverse post-discal 

 bands of fore wings are either entirely absent or faintly indicated in 

 greyish -brown ; the anterior ocellus is small or absent, the posterior 

 one fairly large, ringed with pale brown and with black. On the 

 hind wings there is no trace at all of the usual pale post-discal band 

 and the ocelli are large or very large. 



Underside as in the darkest forms of lavinia ; fore wings without 

 any red except the cell-bars, and usually without any trace of the 

 anterior ocellus ; hind wings unicolorous, the ocelli vestigial or 

 absent. 



//a/>j7a^— Jalisco, W. Mexico, 5000 ft. 



The forms of the variable J. lavinia, Cram., have received so 

 many names that I am reluctant to add to the number, but 

 melanina is a long way the blackest of all the known forms, and, 

 unlike some of the other " subspecies," it seems to be very 

 constant where it occurs. I received a series of thirty specimens, 

 of which only four are intergrades, and these are interesting 

 from the fact that they approach more nearly to the var. ccvnia, 

 Hiibn., from the United States than to true lavinia. Moreover, 

 the occurrence of a highly melanic form in one of the rf?-j>s^ parts 

 of the whole area of distribution of the species is very unusual. 



Rhinopalpa algina var. anak, subsp. nov. 



,^ . Larger than any of the other forms of B. algina, Bois. 

 Upperside : Both wangs with the yellow band broader than in algina, 

 evenly curved on the fore wings, which have also one or two small 

 yellow subapical spots ; the outer area of both wings is paler, so that 

 the black post-discal spots and submarginal line are more distinctly 

 visible, and on the hind wings the posterior half of the pale stripe 

 lying between the ocelli and the post-discal spots is yellow, like the 

 central band. 



Underside as in algina except that the ground-colour is a little 

 more yellowish. Expands 3'25 in. 



Habitat. — Ke and Aru Islands. Type from Ke. 

 This form would seem to be rare, as jieither de Niceville and 

 Kiihn nor Fruhstorfer have recorded it. 



Cyhdelis mnasylus var. meridionalis, subsp. nov. 



^ . Smaller than typical G. mnasylus from Colombia and Vene- 

 zuela. Upperside : White spots on the fore wings larger, especially 

 the transverse spot just beyond the cell, which is trifid and extends 

 well below the upper median branch ; on the hind wings the white 

 spot within the pale-blue central patch is much larger and trifid, 

 extending into the upper median interspace, and the dark red post- 

 discal band is broader and brighter. 



