DEUDORIX. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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passing over to the palearctic region as ancus Fruhst. (1911). The typical southern race is said to exhibit a am- us. 
somewhat brownish red, above and beneath a more greyish-white ground-colour. — amatius Fruhst. is a amatius. 
particularly large race, beneath greyish-black with hardly traceable green subanal spots on the hindwing beneath. 
Also above the <$<$ are darker. Tonkin, Assam. — menesicles Fruhst. Red above darker than in typical specimens menesicles. 
with broader black veins. The reddish spot in the <$ forewing is larger; the spots in the anal, region of the 
hindwing beneath with a larger yellow halo. Formosa. — coriolanus Fruhst. (= epijarbas Smpr.) is a small coriolanus. 
form, on both sides very light coloured, the bands beneath distinctly bordered with white. Philippines, Palawan. 
— megakles Fruhst. Like most of the Celebes lepidoptera a large race, the bands beneath with a particularly megaMes. 
broad and distinct white border; upper surface of the in the rainy season reddish chestnut-brown, in the 
dry season more fox-coloured or reddish-ochreous. Celebes. — turbo Fruhst. (160 a). Upper surface very dark, turbo. 
the margins very broad dark, so that in the forewing only a short obtuse wedge remains red, whilst in the hindwing 
only in the anal half the red colour shines through the dark powdering. Waigeu, Moluccas. — concolor Joic. concolor. 
(Sc Talb. entirely resembles above turbo (161 a), but the discal red of the fore wing extends somewhat nearer 
to the dark distal band, and in the hindwing the red extends along the margin up to the apex; the under 
surface is dusty grey with a very dull brownish-yellow tint, similar to our figures of the under surface of perse 
(161b), but the postmedian band is quite straight, scarcely darker than the ground-colour with quite 
smooth broad white margins. — diovis Hew. $ above of a very bright red colour, the wedge-shaped spot in diovis. 
the forewing is distally rather straight and cut off parallel to the margin. Under surface earth-coloured grey, 
the white edges of the transverse bands in the $ broad and distinct, in the frequently interrupted. North- 
East Australia, to the south as far as the Richmond River. — mesarchus Fruhst. Under surface lighter, the mesarchus. 
white border-lines of the transverse bands are broad and distinct; the green spot and the yellow halo in the 
subanal region expanded. $$ sometimes (or invariably ?) with discal reddish brightenings of the upper surface; 
Lesser Sunda Islands. — cinnabarus Fruhst. Larger than mesarchus, but smaller than our figure of the type cinnalarus. 
of epijarbas ; beneath with a bright purple reflection; $ either blackish-brown or light golden brown, or (form 
side Fruhst.) with yellowish-red in the disc. Malacca, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. terenzius (sic) Fruhst. has side. 
the bands beneath very broadly edged, the green sj)ot and the yellow halo in the anal region of the hindwing ferenzms - 
very much enlarged; Nias. — enganicus Fruhst. is like terenzius, but the yellow halo of the hindwing beneath enganicus. 
has almost disappeared; $ above dull brown. Engano. — littoralis Joic. <Sc Talb. is in the $ much larger littoralis. 
than typical epijarbas, but above very much darkened, so that the red colour in the forewing is reduced to 
a wedge-shaped spot which is still somewhat narrower than in turbo-£ (161 a); in the hindwing it is only yet 
in the anal portion and extends towards the costal margin hardly to the cell. Also the under surface is darker 
earth-coloured; the $ above is greyish-brown with a broad darker costal-marginal area which comprises yet 
the cell of the forewing. — viridens Drc., from Guadalcanal is perhaps a distinct species, the red areas of the viridens. 
upper surface are not larger than in littoralis ; but the insect is easily discernible by the intense green reflection 
beneath; allied to the following species by the black spot in the lobe of the hind wing not being centrally situate 
as in epijarbas or diovis, but at the lower margin. — About the habits, larva etc. I have reported at 
large in Vol. I, on p. 260; we may add here that Piepers observed the larva leaving the pericarp for 
its pupation, and that its colour was a bright red not so as it is described in Vol. I (according to Swinhoe). 
Here there seem to be local differences, for also recent observers figure the larva green, only at the anal 
end brownish; the pupa is said to lie, similar to a brown bean, in the inhabited capsules of Cinnarus ritchiei. 
Also pomegranates and Aesculus indicus are mentioned as food-plants. 
D. woodfordi Drc. is very closely allied to diovis, but larger, above instead of orange with a bright woodfordi. 
copper gloss; under surface dark greyish-brown, the postmedian band of the forewing makes a large angle 
towards the margins, the marginal spot in the anal region of the hindwing is larger, and is not situate in a 
reddish halo, but proximally bordered with orange. The frons which is bright yellow in diovis, is here white. 
Guadalcanal’. neopommerana Stgr. is quite a similar form found in New Pomerania. — woodfordi of which neopomme- 
numerous similar specimens were at the author’s hand occurs also, according to Lord Rot son ild, in Dampier mna. 
and the Volcano Island. 
D. biaka Joic. & Talb., from Biak. is above in the $ (I do. not know the <J) light dusty grey with biaka. 
a slight bluish reflection; costal margin and distal margin of forewing broad blackish-brown, beneath quite 
light, almost dingy white, the postmedian band is a blackish-grey nebulous stripes with hardly lighter margins, 
in the hindwing hardly traceable. The anal lobe of the hindwing is above rust-coloured red, beneath blackish. 
D. perse Hew. (161 b). This species is allied to livia from the palearctic and Ethiopian regions (Vol. I, perse. 
pi. 77 g, and Vol. XIII, pi. 66 e) and was also inserted in the genus Virachola Mr., about the position 
of which we have spoken in Vol. I, p. 289. perse is beneath very similar to epijarbas-, but above the <J is of a 
magnificent metallic blue with a large orange discal disc, the $ with a white diffuse spot behind the cell 
of the forewing. The range begins directly behind the palearctic southern frontier in the North-Western Himalaya 
and extends to the Philippines and Sunda Islands. In the north, particularly in the valleys of Kashmir and 
Sikkim the species is in places common, in the south (Ceylon etc.) mostly rare. The typical form from North 
India is represented in South India by the form ghela Fruhst. (160 c as ghala) which also flies in Ceylon; this ghela. 
