S4 Colonel C. Swinhoe on new 



Genus Erebus. 

 Ercbxis varicgala. 



Xi/ctipao vnrieqntn, cJ, IJutler, Ann. & Mng. Nat. Hist. (5) xiv. p. 432 

 *(1887); Ilampsou (part.), Phal. xii. p. 290. pi. 206. %. 0, J (1913). 



Hah. Solomons. 



N. califfhwsa, Butler, J. c. p. 4.33, wliich Ilanipson make.s 

 the female of variegata, is a distinct ppecics ; it is not the 

 Cenjale of variegata. I have the true female of variegata^ 

 also from the Solomons (from Shortland Island) ; it is very 

 siniihir to the male, has more white suffusion in the wings, 

 and is much larger. 



Erehus epJiesphor'is. 



Phahrna noctua crepusctdaris; Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 99, pi. 100. fi<r. A 



(1770) (nee Liun.). 

 Xi/ctipau ephesphoris, Iliibnev, Verz. Schmett. 272, 2G75 (1827). 

 yyctipan ephesphoris. Walker, xiv. 1305 (18-58). 

 yi/ctipao leucoteenia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 184 (1852) ; Ilampson. Phal. 



"xii. p. 298, pi. 207. figs. 7^,8? (1913). 



Ilah. Amboina. 



I have one male and three females from Amboina which 

 are undoubtedly identical with leucota^nia and with Hamp- 

 son's excellent figures. The type came from Amboina. 



Erebus soparcea, nov. 



? . Chocolate-brown, tinged with ochreous : fore wing 

 with indications of a subbasal band ; a rather broad sinuous 

 antemedial brown band from costa to hinder margin, followed 

 by a similar band a little before the middle, outwardly edged 

 with greyish ochreous from the hinder margin to the whorl- 

 shaped discoidal mark, which is very large; its black ring- 

 strongly outwardly edged with white, which thickens on the 

 costa and has a billhook-shaped large centre tilled in with 

 brownish ochreous, ringed with deep black, and edged in- 

 wardly and outwardly with white; a brown thin even discal 

 band with a slight outward curve from the costa to the outer 

 margin, followed b}' a pale and more ochreous space ; the 

 other third of the wing as dark as its basal portion ; a large 

 subcostal white spot before the apex, oval and excavated on 

 its outer side, a small white luntde immediately below it, 

 followed by five white lunular marks inwardly edg(.'d with 

 black down the di^k — the first minute, the fourth well out- 

 wards, the row ending in an outwardly-curved white line 

 close to the hinder mai-gin ; cilia brown with white spots at 



