EURASIAN & AUSTRALIAN NEPTINI 27 



P. venilia tadema (Fruhstorfer) comb. n. 



Acca venilia tadema Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 282. <$ Waigiu. Type Paris. 

 Rahinda {Acca) venilia tadema (Fruhstorfer) Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 600. 



Waigiu and Gebi Is. Examples from Misol Is., with wider greyish blue edging 

 to the hind wing discal band, are provisionally placed here. 



P. venilia holargyrea (Fruhstorfer) comb. n. 



Acca venilia holargyrea Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 281. $ Aru Is., Key Is. and Tenimber. Type 



Paris. 

 Rahinda (Acca) venilia holargyrea (Fruhstorfer) Fruhstorfer, 191 3 : 600. 



A single male from Key Is. has wider white markings than a series from Aru Is., 

 and probably represents a distinct subspecies. Tenimber seems an unlikely locality, 

 at least in the same subspecies as Aru Is. A pair taken by Frost and very fully 

 documented from Tenimber proved to be obiana. It is known that Frost's localities 

 are often unreliable (Brooks, 1950 : 204). 



Aru Is. 



P. venilia pseudovenilia (Fruhstorfer) comb. n. 



Acca venilia anceps f. pseudovenilia Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 283. <^$ Dorey. Types Paris. 

 Rahinda (Acca) venilia anceps f. pseudovenilia (Fruhstorfer) Fruhstorfer, 191 3 : 600. 



Fruhstorfer recognized that a subspecies occurred in N.W. New Guinea distinct 

 from the subspecies in North Central New Guinea. He mistakenly supposed that 

 anceps Grose Smith, though applying to an aberration or rare variety, was available 

 as the subspecific name for the former area and he designated f. pseudovenilia for 

 the normal form. In view of his mistake over the type locality of anceps his name 

 pseudovenilia, though originally intended for an infra-subspecific category, appears 

 to be valid under the International Rules to designate the subspecies from N.W. 

 New Guinea without formal elevation to subspecific rank by me. The subspecies 

 differs from ssp. anceps chiefly in having the spots of the fore wing upper postdiscal 

 band reduced. 



N.W. New Guinea (Dorey, Arfak Mts., Wandesi, Wangaar, Amberfron Is., 

 Ron Is.). A single male from the Weyland Mts. and two females from McCluer 

 Gulf, with narrower greyish blue edging to the hind wing postdiscal band, are 

 provisionally placed here. 



