194 Novit ates Zoologicae XXIII. 1916. 



fairly extensive. From Rook Island, three of the examples belong to a very 

 noteworthy aberration, ab depleta nov., with all the dark colour obsolete, replaced 

 by very pale bine-grey. As the breast and forecoxa are more ochreous, the oliva- 

 ceous dusting of both wings somewhat stronger, the cell-mark of the forewing 

 perhaps slightly narrower than usual, and the postmedian line of the hindwing 

 slightly more angled outward on M 2 than usual (forming a more regular and deeper 

 inward curve between this vein and the abdominal margin), it is not inconceivable 

 that the impression of a distinct species, which is produced at first glance, may not 

 prove fallacious ; yet the distinctions, apart from the coloration, are exceedingly 

 slight and not quite constant. 



11. Pingasa ruginaria andamanica subsp. nov. 



Ground-colour as in the most deeply coloured aberrations of ruginaria ruginaria : 

 distal area more deeply and uniformly rufous, the pale subterminal line more or less 

 obliterated, only with traces remaining here and there, chiefly at the costal and 

 hindmargins. 



Andaman Islands. Type from Port Blair, in coll. L. B. Prout. 



12. Hypodoxa emiliaria aignanensis subsp. nov. 



$ ? . Nearest to emiliaria purpurifera Warr., from the Solomons, the c? above 

 more suffused with blackish (in e. purpurifera more olivaceous), the ? with reddish, 

 both sexes beneath with the cell-spot of the forewing somewhat reduced, that of the 

 hindwing wanting, the black borders — at least that of the hindwing — slightly 

 narrowed, not or scarcely angnlated in the middle. 



St. Aignan, Louisiades, September — November 1897 (A. S. Meek). Type in 

 coll. Trine: Mus. 



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13. Dysphania pilosa gloriosa subsp. nov. 



c?, 110 mm. Forewing with the very large cell-spot preceded in cell by a 

 moderately broad (7 mm.) white band, which continues more irregularly (usually 

 narrowing) almost to hindmargin, its proximal edge more or less strongly and 

 irregularly dentate ; in addition, a very narrow, interrupted white edging distally to 

 the cell-spot, its posterior extremity confluent with the white band, and remnants of 

 a very narrow, strongly sinuous outer band, showing chiefly as a pair of lunulate 

 spots between SC 5 and R 2 , a smaller, more distal spot or dot in front of R 3 and a 

 slender streak from behind M 1 almost to hindmargin. Hindwing with a cor- 

 responding white discal band, the orange submarginal band about as in average 

 females of name-typical pilosa. 



?, 100-114 mm. Forewing with all the white markings considerably broader 

 than in the c?, the outer band only interrupted about M 1 , fleshy-tinted at posterior 



end ; usually in addition some white spots near base. Hindwing with the white 



and orange bands considerably widened. 



Vella Lavella, Solomons, February— March 1906 (A. S. Meek). 4 SS, 5 ? $, 

 in coll. Tring Mus. 



As the ground-colour is rather more blue (less purple) than in the other races, 

 this may possibly be a separate species, but it is in large measure connected with 

 the name-type by the ? of subsp. ßavicorpus Warr. from Choiseul, th« <$ of which 



