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the ? the difference in size seems more noticeable than in the $ (the 

 ? of juno juno averaging larger than the $ , that of juno ceramensis 

 averaging at least as small as the $ ) . 



Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, fifty-five $ S , 

 sixty-two ? ? . 



Specimens from Java and Borneo (subspecies elegans, Van der 

 Hoev.) are somewhat intermediate between the Japanese and Indian 

 form and the Central Ceram subspecies, being about the size of the 

 latter with the blue band of hind wing intermediate ; but the black 

 area and terminal dark shading are as in typical juno. Although some 

 Palaearctic and Indian aberrations seem to approximate towards the 

 Ceram form, not a single Ceram specimen approaches the typical form ; 

 I have, therefore, regarded this as a good subspecies, even though the 

 differences are somewhat slight. 



39. Lagoptera rubida Wlkr. velutina Prout $ . 



? , Ann. Mag. (9) iii. 172 (1919) (Dutch New Guinea). 

 c?, 83 mm. 



Tegulae with a tuft of yellow hair at middle (disturbed) ; white 

 band of hind wing slightly broader than in the 2 (a racial difference ?) ; 

 slightly darker, more purplish brown in tone than in the ? ; fringe 

 of hind wing apparently a little darker. 



Fore wing beneath with some yellow hair in proximal half of cell ; 

 hind wing entirely ochreous (not only " with an ochreous tinge towards 

 base," as in typical rubida), and clothed with very short androconial 

 hair. 



Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, one $ . 



40. Anophiodes indistincta sp. nov. 



? , 56 mm. 



Head, palpus, antenna and thorax brown, tegulae with a medial 

 black line, patagia with a black line towards the shoulders ; pectus and 

 hind legs whitish ; middle and fore legs blackish, the segments tipped 

 with white ; abdomen greyish above, ochreous-grey beneath. 



Fore wing above dark brown, intermixed here and there with pale 

 reddish, the veins shot with purple ; a few white scales on subterminal 



