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NEW FORMS OF THE GENUS TELLERVO 

 (DANAIDAE). 



By J. J. JOICEY and G. TALBOT. 



1. Tellervo assarica Cram, aruensis. subsp. nov. 



3 . Fore wing spots smaller, spot in 3 oblong with almost straight 

 edges, cellspot triangular and equilateral. Hind wing with rounded 

 white area narrower proximally, edges slightly sinuous. 



Underside with submarginal spots reduced to dots. Fore wing with 

 basal streak represented by a small spot before 2. Hind wing without 

 a middle costal spot. Upper edge of white area with a slight tooth of 

 ground-colour as in assarica, proximal edge only reaching vein la ; a 

 spot on the inner margin near base not touching the edge of the w T hite 

 area. No submarginal dot in lb and lc. 



Aru Islands, March to May, W. J. C. Frost, one 3 . 



A long series of zoilus nais Guer. was also obtained. 



2. Tellervo assarica Cram, mysolensis. subsp. nov. 



3 . Much resembling assarica but with well-marked basal streak on 

 fore wing. Cellspot a little larger than in assarica. Spots smaller, 

 inner edge of lower spot more distal than in assarica. Hind wing with 

 band reduced between veins 2 and 4, and only slightly indented along 

 the edge. 



Underside of hind wing with costal spots larger and closer together. 

 ? . Fore wing postdiscal spots not connected at vein 4 as in most 

 assarica forms, and their edges not so sharply defined. Cellspot large, 

 also a well-marked basal stripe. 



Mysol, 100 to 500 feet, October and November, wet season, W. J. C. 

 Frost, four 3 3 , four ? ? . 



3. Tellervo assarica Cram, waigeuensis. subsp. nov. 



T. zoilus fallax Fruh. Seitz, Macrolep. ix, p. 273, pi. 78e (1911). 

 This is not the true fallax Stgr., typical specimens of which we 

 possess from Waigeu, and also a very similar and perhaps identical form 



