188 W. Dobei'ty — The Batferflies of Sumba and Samlawa, Sfc. [No. 2, 



HuPHiNA NAOMI, Wallace. 

 Sambawa. 



99. HUPHINA EIRENE, n. sp. 



Male. It differs from H. naomi in the colour of the hindwing 

 below, and that of the snbapical spots of the forewing, being lemon, 

 instead of rich orange-ochreous. Above, the median vein and its upper 

 branch are more widely marked with black, and the white of the cell 

 and the hind margin of the forewing is clearer and purer. 



In these points it agrees with H. judith, Fab. (Java), but differs in 

 the narrow dark markings of the forewing above, the long white discal 

 markings being slenderly continued nearly to the margin. Belotv, 

 the forewing has three subapical lemon spots, a large white spot be- 

 tween the upper median branches, and two white spots beyond the cell, 

 the one above these being obsolete. The black border of the hindwing 

 is narrower than in H. judith, enclosing a lemon spot between the sub- 

 costals, one (obsolescent) above the radial veins, and one, large and 

 diffused, between the upper median branches ; an ochreous spot partly 

 enclosed between the lower median and submedian veins ; the anal 

 angle slenderly edged with orange-ochreous. 



Sumba, interior, rare. I cannot find the type, and the description 

 is not very good. The species, however, which I compared with good 

 series of H. judith and naomi, is distinct. It is curious that it should 

 more approach the Javanese species than that of the neighbouring 

 islands. 



The species figured by Hombron and Jacquinot in the " Voyage au 

 Pole Sud," as " Fieris judith, var," and so placed by Kirby, is certainly 

 distinct. I suggest for it the name of Hnphina, imogene. It is nearest 

 my H. ethel from Engano. 



HUPHINA VASO, n. sp. 



A local form of the Javanese H. corva. Male, above, darker than in 

 that species, all the veins heavily outlined with black. Forewing with 

 an almost complete, irregular, outer-discal dark band extending ob- 

 liquely from the costa to the hind-margin, and continued along the latter 

 to its base ; the white submarginal spots beyond this are large. Hind- 

 wing with the cell, the upper median, and both the subcostal veins 

 clouded with black, the black border deeply dentate, with a line of 

 diffused black spots submarginally in the middle of the spaces. Below, 

 paler than in corva, the white markings, especially the submarginal ones, 

 all larger and clearer, the veins all slenderly outlined with ochreous. 



Sambawa, coast. 



