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2 Anterior wings, moderately pale rufous brown ; the 

 adnervular rays and all other light marks and streaks 

 broad, or prominent, and buff grey, uniformly subdued by 

 brown scales — the 3rd median and submedian marks only 

 extending part of the way towards the cell ; the distal 3rd 

 of the cell bordered and divided by similar grey marks ; 

 the light marginal lunations are also buff tinted. Under- 

 surface of wing exactly as above, except that the brown 

 areas are a little purer, and the light marks are much 

 lighter than above. 



Posterior wings, brown ; a creamy yellow elongate area 

 occupies nearly one-third of the cell from the distal end ; 

 followed below by an area two-fifths of the disc, bounded 

 by the 2nd subcostal and 3rd median nervules ; followed 

 by a transverse band of 4 long brown cones, then a discal 

 band of yellow marks, extending from the inner margin 

 to the costa, which again emphasise the dentate apices of 

 the broad hind marginal band ; an irregular buff-yellow 

 mark, broadest above, extends down the submedian area 

 from half to one-fourth of the wing length from its base, 

 and terminates with a small cuneiform mark at the anal 

 angle. Under surface as above, except that the light 

 marks are all pure creamy white, the discal black cones 

 are somewhat subdued by white scales, the outer marginal 

 band dentations are more deeply divided by white and 

 brown scaling, and the white fringe lunations are very 

 prominent. The submedian area has two patches of 

 black or brown, and a long mark of dark scales above. 



Head and eyes brown, a slight red ring at the prono- 

 tum ; the thorax dark brown with the usual pectoral red 

 patches ; the abdomen rufous brown, with the subdorsum 

 and sides creamy white and yellow and the articula black 

 except the last three which have a pair of large elongate 

 orbicles in each articulus, and lateral rows of black spots, 

 which towards the base merge into the general black of 

 the subdorsum ; the anal segment yellow and brown. 



Length of costa 97 mms., of hind margin 66 mms., of 

 inner margin (which is nearly straight) 51 mms., greatest 

 length of posterior wing 63, and width 39 mms. The 

 costa is rounded, and merges into the outer margin ; the 

 length of the inner margin is about 42 mms. 



In the anterior wing the 3rd subcostal branch is emitted 

 at 3 mms. from the distal end the cell. 



Length of abdomen or antennae 34, and of the thorax 

 with the head, 25 mms. 



Length of 

 Legs. 



1st pair: femur, 12; tibia, 11; tarsi, 13 mms. 

 2nd ,, ,, 14 ; ,, 13 ; ,, 15 ,, 



3rd „ „ 13; „ 13; „ 18 „ 



Habitat, Ceram (Wallace). In the collection of Mr. H. 

 Grose Smith. 



POMPEOPTERA HELENA, VAR. CAROLUS. 



0. Papuensis, var. Carolus, Friihstorfer, "Berliner Ent. Zeitschrift, v. xliii, p. 306 (1897). 



$ . Smaller than the type form of Helena. 



Anterior wings velvety black, but suffused with grey, 

 subdued by dark scales, from near the apical angle, and 

 along the outer margin broadens, so as to occupy much of 

 the disc — the veins and folds showing prominently in this 

 grey. Undersurface as above, except that the greater part 

 of the disc is creamy white, shading into the black towards 

 the cell by white scales : close to, and parallel with the 

 basal section of the medium nervure is a stripe of grey 

 atoms, followed by a spot of grey atoms close beneath the 

 second section ; some faint grey spots are found along 

 the pseudoneura in the cell ; and the costa is rufous grey. 

 Posterior wings nearly normal above, with a yellow inden- 

 tation into the black marginal band near the 2nd sub- 

 costal nervule. 



[This latter character is always present in varieties of 



Helena, and may be found useful for indentification of 

 the different forms of that species.] 



Under surface as above, but all the black borders except 

 the basal portions of the subcostal areas are more or less 

 scaled with grey atoms — showing a tendency towards the 

 production of a white and yellow variety. The abdo- 

 men is rufous white above, yellow beneath. 



Length of costa of anterior wings 74 mms. 



Hab. : Dutch N. Guinea. 



Described and figured from the type, for the loan of 

 which I am indebted to Mr. H. Grose-Smith, to whom 

 this beautiful and very distinct form belongs. 



