﻿POMPEOPTERA CRITON, VAR. FELDERI. 



Troidei Criton, var. Felderi, <? Rothschild, " Novitates Zoologies," vol. ii., page 210 (1895). 



$ . Anterior wings dark brown, with the adnervular 

 light rays, especially the upper ones, so densely scaled 

 with brown atoms as to render them almost obsolete ; the 

 distal end of the cell with a light patch of one third the 

 cell length also as densely scaled ; the veins sufficiently 

 expressed ; the dark brown of the wings with a distinct 

 olive-green sheen, when seen in certain positions. 



Undersurface as above, but the light adnervular rays 

 and marks of the disc and cell are reddish and greenish- 

 grey, and only slightly subdued by scaling : the brown of 

 the wings has also a more silky greenish sheen than on 

 the upper surface ; the pseudoneura are well shown in the 

 cell, though invisible on the upper surface ; the fringe 

 lunations are continuous, and rufous white. 



Posterior wings dark brown, with a silky greenish tex- 

 ture ; a large discal area of orange-tinted white, which en- 

 croaches one-fourth within the cell, and contains five large 

 submarginal black ovoid spots ; in the subcostal area 

 above them are two light spots, indicating the continuation 

 of the light area, but broken up ; the outer margin is grace- 

 fully scalloped, and the fringe rather redder in colour than 

 the discal light area ; the light lunations below the black 

 ovoid spots are thickly scaled. The under-surface of the 

 wings the same in pattern as above, but the submarginal 



row of black spots (six in number) are smaller than above, 

 the light spaces below them are only slightly scaled, the 

 outer marginal brown band is strongly dentate, the light 

 area is whiter than on the upper surface, and the base 

 of the wings darker than above ; the marginal fringe very 

 rufous. 



Length of costa of anterior wing 70 mms. ; of outer 

 margin 39 mms. Greatest length of posterior wing, 45 

 mms. ; greatest width 35 mms. 



Head and thorax velvety brownish-black ; eyes very 

 dark brown ; abdomen rufous brown, with lateral and 

 subdorsal yellow, subdued by brown atoms, and with 

 lateral black dots and the articulations strongly expressed 

 with black. 



Antennae densely black, legs black, thorax with the 

 usual red pectoral patches. 



Length of abdomen or antennas 27 mms., of thorax with 

 the head 20 mms. 



Habitat : Halmaheira. 

 Figured on plate 41. 



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