162 W. Dohei^ty — The Bntterflies of Sumha and Samhazva, ^'C. [No. 2, 



6. 'EuPLfEA (RaSUMA ?) LEWA, Tl. Sp. PI. II, fig. 2, 



Male, above, forewiug dark brown, the outer part paler, especially 

 near the lower angle ; a broad sericeous streak in tlie interno-median 

 space, nearly half an inch long ; a subapical mass of four blue-bordered 

 white spots, with a minute one above them, the first two small, the 

 third large and quadrate, the fourth smaller, pointed inwardly ; a 

 whitish point on the costa, another obsolescent discally in the upper 

 median space. Hind wing unmarked, much paler than the forewing, espe- 

 cially outwardly. Below, forewing darkest on the disc and in the cell, the 

 subapical band somewhat reduced in size, one bluish spot in the cell, 

 one near the costa, and three on the disc, the lower one yellowish. 

 Hindwing, with a space above the terminal part of the cell much darker 

 than the rest, a pale band round the disc, one bluish spot in the cell, 

 five or six dots beyond it, and eight rosy ones in an irregular line across 

 the disc, two in each median and in the lower radial space, and one in 

 each of the two next spaces. Expanse over three inches. 



Sumba, apparently a dominant species. Like the next species it 

 is separated from all allies by its white subapical band. 



I did not find any species resembling this in Sambawa, though a 

 species of Penoa occurs there having a somewhat similar sericeous 

 brand above. I took only a single male at 2000 feet. A wholly dif- 

 ferent species, G. haudiniana, Grodart {orojoe, Boisduval), occurs in Timor, 

 having the hindwing broadly whitish. E. lewa is apparently of Papuan 

 affinities. 



7. EuPLCEA (Crastia or Vadebba) palmedo, n. sp. PL II, fig. 3. 

 Closely resembling the preceding species. Male, forewing dark 



brown above, paler outwardly ; a white, rather quadrate, subapical mass 

 diffused at the edges, broken by three slender dark veins. Hindwing 

 nearly white above the upper subcostal vein, the rest brown, the outer 

 discal and subanal area much paler. Below, the pale areas are more 

 obvious than in Euploea lewa. Forewing with a bluish-white spot in 

 the cell, and two in the disc beyond, besides traces of two streaks in the 

 interno-median space. Hindwing with one spot in the cell, a semicircle 

 of six minute ones beyond it, and a row of seven or eight larger ones in 

 the yellowish discal area, all but one arranged linearly ; only one or two 

 submarginal dots visible. 



Sumba, coast and interior. It is much less common than IE. lewa, 

 but as the climena group to which it belongs is in most places a domi- 

 nant one, I am unwilling to believe it a mimic of that species. The 

 species is a very distinct one. 



An allied form occurs in Sambawa, with the margins broadly 



