New Forms of Indo- Australian Butterflies 569 



typical form, submarginal spots farther from the margin and less 

 strongly pale-edged. Discal line straighter, some whitish scaling 

 between it and the faint postdiscal band. 



Habitat'.— Aru Islands, March-May, 1916, W. J. C. Frost, four $ $ . 



Hypolimnas bolina lisianassa Cram. $ f. signata f. nov. 



$ . Ground colour warm-brown, fore wing darker, hind wing 

 blackish at the base. Fore wing with white costal band of four spots 

 edged with blue ; postdiscal row of dots bluish-white ; submarginal 

 lines and apical area fulvous, as also a small patch on the inner margin. 

 Hind wing with a small discal patch of blue dusting ; postdiscal spots 

 and submarginal line fulvous. Underside of fore wing with the apical 

 area to vein 3 ochreous-brown, of hind wing with basal area, distal and 

 inner margins ochreous-brown, postdiscal area paler, discal area blackish; 

 other markings whitish-brown, the costal spot and postdiscal dots paler. 

 Habitat. — Central Ceram, 3,000 feet, December, 1919, C, F. and 

 J. Pratt, one $ . 



Apaturina erminea aruensis subsp. nov. 



<£ . Very like the New Guinea race papuana Ribbe. Fore wing 

 band a little paler as in some Amboina specimens, but the spot in 2 is 

 not so large as in the Moluccan form. The basal bluish area is smaller 

 than in the allied forms, being less extended below \ein 2. Hind wing 

 with a more extended green gloss (seen by tilting the insect) over the 

 distal part of the blue area. 



Underside of fore wing only slightly different to papuana. White 

 spot at tornus smaller, and white scaling along the margin indistinct. 

 Ocellus more thinly edged with orange ; the two blue discal marks 

 a little larger, and a little less oblique. Hind wing with the postdiscal 

 dark band, which follows the discal line, less sharply defined, especially 

 on the outer edge. Submarginal and antemarginal lines thinner 

 anteriorly and closer together. 



Habitat.— Aru Islands, March-May, 1916, W. J. C. Frost, three $ $ . 



