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Genus Callictita 
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(evidently remnants of white centering of spots). On 
the costa is a small triangular dark spot, reaching Rs, 
and rarely Ml. Outer margin brown, with occasional 
marginal white spots, particularly in M3-Cul. In Cul- 
Cu2 is a jet-black marginal spot, ringed with metallic 
green, strongest basallv, and rather weak outwardly, and 
in Cu2-2A is a jet-black dash, basally lined with a metal- 
lic green bar. 
Females similar, but with the bar on the inner margin 
lacking the white, or almost lacking it. The costal tri- 
angular spot constantly reaches Ml instead of Rs. 
Remarks. The male of the typical subspecies is ap- 
parently described here for the first time. Betliune- 
Baker erroneously sexed his specimens as males. Jordan 
( loc . cit.) evidently based his Edie River record of “ albi- 
plaga Fruhst.” on males of this subspecies, though he 
failed to describe them. 
Males of the three subspecies ( cyara , albiplaga , and 
arfakiana ) do not seem to differ on the upper surfaces, 
and only more material will tell whether the same is true 
of the females. 
The real difference between the subspecies lies on the 
under surface. The pattern here varies consistently. 
From albiplaga the typical subspecies may be told by the 
more scalloped outer marginal border of the former, and 
the consequent increase in white outward of it. The band 
on the inner margin is in albiplaga more broken up into 
spots. In general, there appears to be a decrease in the 
amount of black in albiplaga in the hind wing below, but 
on the fore wing there is, if anything, an increase. 
Typical cyara may be separated from arfakiana by the 
latter’s smaller size, and the presence of two well-defined 
costal spots on the hind wing below, instead of one as in 
cyara. There is on this surface more metallic scaling in 
arfakiana, near the anal angle. 
Callictita cyara albiplaga Joicey and Talbot 
Callictita cyara albiplaga Joicey and Talbot, 1916, Ann. 
Mag. Nat. Hist., (8)17: 80, pi. 7, fig. 5. 
Callictita cyara albiplaga Seitz, 1927, Macrolep. World, 
9 : 1114, pi. 147b. 
