New Forms of Butterflies from Burn 513 



Described from a series of six taken at Kako Tagalago, 2,700 feet, 

 May (neallotype) ; Mount Tagalago, 2,000 feet, April ; south coast, May. 



Also thirteen $ $ from Lek Soela (coast), February-March; south 

 coast, May; Kako Tagalago, 2,700 feet, May; Mount Tagalago, 2,000 

 feet, April. 



10. Cynthia erota buruana Fruh. $ . 



G. arsinoe buruana Fruh., Iris, xiv, p. 329 (1901) (Buru) S . 



We find that this form has more in common with erota than with 

 arsinoe, in both sexes. The arsinoe forms have a more broken discal 

 line on the fore wing, this line being fairly straight and sharply indicated 

 in erota. 



The genus required further revision, like so many others which were 

 apparently treated hastily in Seitz. 



$ . Resembles erota forms in the narrow discal band with its sharply 

 defined inner edge. The band white and 5 — 6 mm. broad, its outer 

 edge scalloped and bordered with black. Postdiscal black spots few and 

 a > shaped mark in cellule 4 and a smaller fifth spot in cellule 6. 

 A small rounded white subapical spot. A postdiscal heavy black waved 

 line, and a thinner submarginal line. Basal area greenish-brown and 

 darker than the smoky-brown discal area. 



Hind wing with white discal band, sometimes dusted with brownish 

 scaling, from 9 — 10 mm. broad at the costa, narrowing posteriorly to 

 the anal angle. The inner edge of this band sharply defined and only 

 slightly irregular, the outer edge clouded with greenish-brown, fairly 

 straight, and with a heavy and strongly waved line within it. A heavy 

 black waved submarginal line between which and the discal band the 

 area is dusted with yellow-brown. A black antemarginal line. 



Submarginal area yellow-brown with more or less lilac dusting 

 mostly along the outer edges of the submarginal lines. Two large ocelli 

 in 2 and 5, black with orange-yellow ring and thin black outer edge, 

 pupil bluish-white. A smaller anal ocellus, its lower part joined to the 

 submarginal line which here ends in a chocolate-brown spot. Tail well 

 developed. 



Underside colouring much as in arsinoe $ though paler and ocelli 

 smaller and with the anal ocellus well marked. The lines and bands of the 

 upperside are less heavily marked on the underside and are as in the S . 



Length of fore wing 52 — 61 mm. 



A series of both sexes from Kako Tagalago, 2,700 feet, May ; Gamoe 

 'Mrapat, 5,000 feet, April; Koentoeroen, 3,500 feet, April; Lek Soela 

 (coast), February-March. 

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