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costa and faint traces of a row of ochreous subterminal spots, arranged 

 somewhat as in leucotaenia Gn. 



Hind wing velvety fuscous-brown with a purplish gloss. Faint 

 traces of curved medial and straight postmedial black lines ; a curved 

 pale ochreous striga behind costa, and slight, ochreous subterminal 

 line, distally black-edged, interrupted at the veins, somewhat as in 

 leucotaenia, but without the strong outward bend at R 3 of that 

 species. 



Underside of both wings purplish-fuscous, the proximal half clothed 

 with rather short brown hair and practically unmarked ; subterminal 

 line much more distinct than above, pure white, broken into rather 

 oblique lunules, becoming less sharply defined on posterior two-thirds 

 of hind wing. 



3,000 feet, December, 1919, one ? . 



Just possibly the missing female of orcina Fldr., but hardly seems 

 to agree sufficiently, the subterminal line beneath being much more 

 waved and irregular in felderi than in orcina, which would be a most 

 unusual sexual variation in Nyctipao. In any case this would probably 

 be a good subspecies, as three Amboina males of orcina in coll. Joicey 

 differ materially from the type, rendering it probable that orcina 

 (though labelled by Felder " Moluccas ") is, like some other specimens 

 of Lorquin's collecting, really from Celebes. 



38. Dermaleipa juno Dalm. ceramensis subsp. nov. 



«? ? , 74 — 90 mm. 



Differs from D. juno juno in the generally smaller size (averaging 

 about 85 mm. in juno ceramensis, well over 90 mm. in juno juno) ; in 

 the generally brighter red of ventral surface of abdomen (especially 

 in $ ) ; in the slightly exaggerated swelling of the costa of $ fore- 

 wing ; in the reduction of the black area of hind wing above, especially 

 obliquely behind apex, where it occupies, as a rule, quite two-thirds of 

 the wing from abdominal margin to apex in juno juno, little more than 

 half the wing in juno ceramensis; in the bluish-white line making a 

 slightly more acute angle behind M 1 in juno ceramensis, and being, as 

 a rule, more broadly interrupted at fold ; and in the dark terminal 

 shading of hind wing of juno juno being usually absent or very slight 

 in juno ceramensis. On the underside the $ of juno ceramensis is 

 distinguished from juno juno by reduction of the yellow androconia on 

 hind wing (answering to the reduction of the black area above) ; in 



