30 Euploeines forming Mimetic Groups 



E. boisduvalii Luc, Eev. Zool., p. 321 (1853) (""Australie"). 

 E. boisduvali f. proserpina Butl., P.Z.S. (p. 300) (1866) (Fiji). 

 E. herrichii Feld. ; Eeise Nov. Lep. ii, p. 344, t, 39, figs. 3, 4 

 (1867). 



4. Euploea pelor Doubl. 



We must correct the statement made by Fruhstorfer on this form 

 in Seitz's Macrolepidoptera ix, p. 249. He records that pelor was 

 never found in Australia again, and as he had a female form from 

 Babber in Timor-Laut, " this is pretty certainly the true locality of 

 the species " ! Specimens which we have from Australia do not agree 

 with Fruhstorfer's description, which was evidently made from the 

 Babber Island specimen, and must represent something else. They 

 agree, however, with Doubleday's figure. 



This form is correctly treated and again figured by Waterhouse and 

 Lyell in " The Butterflies of Australia." They regard it as a race of 

 Sylvester Fbr. 



B. A New Form of Euploea confusa grayi Feld, and a New Species. 



E. confusa grayi ? f. mimetica f. nov. (pi. Ib, fig. 3). 



Fore wing with a large white discal patch, clearly defined distally 

 and shading into brown basally, extending from the submedian to vein 

 4, being nearer the margin in cellule 2, and also extending along the 

 lower margin of cell. A submarginal white band leaving a narrow 

 margin of ground-colour ; this band more clearly defined distally and 

 shading into violet proximally, broader apically, and merging into the 

 ground-colour below vein 2. 



Hind wing with a broad white marginal band, its edge clearly but 

 not sharply defined. 



Underside as above, but the white markings are more sharply 

 defined, and on the fore wing the white discal scaling extends to the 

 margin. 



One ? . March to May, collected by W. J. C. Frost. 



Euploea (Stictoploea) peloroides sp. nov. 



This form is evidently the same as the specimen noted by 

 Fruhstorfer in Seitz, Macrolep. IX, p. 249, from Babber, and which 

 he described as pelor Doubl. It bears a remarkable resemblance to 

 both pelor and sacerdos, but is more like the former. As pelor is con- 



