STUDIES ON INDO-AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA II. JJ 



123. P. lorquinii humboldti H. H. Druce. — 4 cfcf and 2 QO, Kloofbivak Febr. and 

 March 19 13. FELDER seems to hâve named this Lycaena „Myrina lorquinii" and has given 

 three figures in his work on the Novara Lepidoptera. The lorquinii hâve been captured on 

 Halmahera and on the Aru Islands. Grose-Smith and KlRBY hâve figured humboldti in 

 their ..Rhopalocera Exotica". 



Gen. Holochila. 



124. H. absimilis Feld. — 30 rfç? and 6 99» Kloofbivak March 1913; Beaufort River 

 12 Nov. 19 12. The çfçf difter in the colour, which is generally violet greenish blue, but 

 there are spécimens in which the colour is silvery blue, so that the black margins form a 

 strong contrast; still some spécimens are greenish brovvn. The 99 seem to be constant. 



125. H. helena Snell. — 6 99- Kloofbivak 4, 7, 11 and 13 March 1913. Pseudodipsas 

 helena Snell., described anno 1887 in the „Notes from the Leyden Muséum", IX, p. 217, is 

 synonymous with Lycaena griseldis Stgr., described in 1888. The figure of the c^ types, which 

 are in the Leyden Muséum, in Tijdschr. v. Ent., XXXII, pi. 10, fig. 2 is not well done, the 

 colour being much more bluish on the upperside. The figure in Staudinger's work is better. 

 I think it very possible that H. aurelia and H. dubitata Gr.-Sm. are races of helena, as far 

 as I can see from the figures in „Rhopalocera Exotica". The female spécimens from Central . 

 New Guinea resemble very much the figures of H. dubitata from Milne Bay. The 99 fr° m 

 W. and N.W. New Guinea show less blue on the upperside of the wings. The colour of the 

 underside is generally dark brownish gray. 



126. H. agatha Gr.-Sm. — 1 cf Coll. Baggelaar. 



127. H. intensa Butl. — 3 cfcf and 1 9> Kloofbivak 28 Febr.; 1 and 6 March 1913. 



Gen. Cupido Schrank. 



128. C. hylas Cram. — 150 cfcf and 99> Kloofbivak Nov., Dec. 1912; Jan., Febr. 

 and March 1913; Beaufort River Nov. and Dec. 1912. 1 ç? Coll. Baggelaar. Pap. hylas Cram. = 

 Pepliphorus euchylas Hùbn. = Polyommatus coritus Guér. = Datais coritus Boisd. 



129. C. aleuas Feld. — 5 cfcf and 6 99 > Kloofbivak 26 — 28 Febr. and 1, 7, 12, 13 

 March 191 3. Lycaena aleuas Feld. is described from Misol and belongs to the same species 

 as Lyc. alcas Feld. from Waigeu. Grose-Smith and KlRBV hâve described several races of 

 both the species hylas and aleuas in „Rhopalocera Exotica" II and III. I think that the 

 spécimens from the central part of New Guinea belong to the subspecies eclectus Gr.-Sm. and 

 allectus Gr.-Sm. from Stephansort and Humboldt Bay. ( Lampides). 



130. C. mindarus Feld. -*— 6 rfrf, Kloofbivak 1, 5, 12 March 191 3. Loc? Mr. G. Ver- 

 STEEG leg. 15 Nov. 1912. 1 9 Coll. Baggelaar. 



131. C. aratus Cram. — 2 rf rf and 2 99» Kloofbivak 3 March 19 1 3. 



132. C. palmyra Feld. - - 4 cfcf an d ! 9> Kloofbivak 27 Febr.; 5 — 8 March 19 13. 

 1 cf Coll. Baggelaar. Till now I hâve not seen spécimens of palmyra from New Guinea. The 

 pattern is différent from that in the spécimens from other localities, the white colour in both 

 the sexes being much more localised. On the upperside of the 9 we see only a triangular 

 white part. 



