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DEUDORIX. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
form differs in its much darker under surface, and the spots behind the cell of the $ fore wings being yellow 
smilis. instead of white. — smilis Hew. (= maseas Fruhst.) (161 c as similis). Smaller than continental specimens. 
silo, beneath very light, $ without a white or yellow spot of the forewing; Andamans. — silo Hew. (161 c) is the 
Borneo form; it is much smaller than in North India, and the blue colour which in the $ covers the basal 
half of the forewing is reduced by the expansion of the black marginal area. The green spots in the anal 
vocetius. region of the hindwing beneath are much more prominent than in perse typica and ghela. — vocetius Fruhst. 
(— smilis Smpr.), finally, is the easternmost race, from Palawan and the Philippines; taken in the sources 
of the Baubo and on the peak of Mt. Kinuta in October; the q q 1 are rather small, the $$ somewhat larger than 
Borneo specimens; they have a whitish patch behind the cell of the forewing, but it is smaller and duller 
than in typical perse from North India. — Larva flesh-coloured, spotted red-brown, the upper surface 
lustrous, though densely set with minute hairs; on the sides snrall hairy tubercles; the anal end of the larva is 
stunted and shield-like, so that it fits into the opening of the pericarp from which the insect empties its 
excrements. Two whitish spots on the metadorsum may nevertheless be ant-organs, although they could not 
yet be ascertained; for Aitken saw ants visiting the fruits (of Randia dumetorum) inhabited by the larvae 
of perse, without finding a reason for this symbiotic behaviour. The fruit which the larva hollows out is, because 
it would wither and fall off, spun fast at the stalk and stem and besides a loophole is gnawed with a kind 
of a trap-door, so that the imago may creep out of the rather hard shell of the fruit. The imagines fly very 
nimbly and rapidly and mostly rest on the tips of twigs, from where the <$$ attack all sorts of insects flying past. 
But it is nevertheless difficult to capture good specimens, because the lepidoptera are raging in the net in 
such a way that pure specimens are only to be obtained by breeding. 
domitia. D. domitia Heiv. (146 B g). The resembles above a $ of epijarbas, and also the $ looks like it. But 
beneath both wings are uni-coloured dull yolk-coloured, in the forewing 3 black dots arranged in a triangle. 
albapex. Malacca, Sumatra, Biliton, and perhaps some more islands. — albapex Nic., from Borneo, is beneath darker 
yellow, above the forewing shows a whitish area at the apex, a more intense stripe-shaped brightening in the 
cell, and a lighter costal area of the hindwing. — The species is apparently very rare. 
loxias. D. loxias Hew. (146 B f). The is above blackish-brown, forewing with a lustrous blue discal spot, 
hindwing in the whole distal portion of a magnificent blue gloss. Beneath yellow; in the forewing a brown 
postmedian band filled up with yellow and a cpiite oblique antemedian band; in the hindwing a median band 
and a premarginal band are dark brown. The species seems to be very rare. 
D. epirus. This species is more Papuan; it goes as far as the Moluccas and seems nowhere to reach 
the Asiatic Continent. Easily recognizable by the under surface where a broad dark band on the white or 
epirus. yellow ground runs right across both wings. Typical epirus Fldr. (161 d) exhibits beneath on the yellow 
ground in the forewing a large, dark triangle with its base resting on the centre of the costa, but it does not 
reach the hind-margin; hindwing with a slightly curved transverse band from the centre of the costa into the 
ctlmar. anal area. Amboina. — This form is very similar to almar Fruhst. (146 c as epirus) from New Guinea, whereas 
cos. in eos Heiv., from Batjan, both the distal-marginal band and the median spot of the forewing beneath are 
much broader. This dark median stripe is no more a tapering triangle, but it reduces a little its width towards 
arjimar. the hind-margin and continues broadly into the median band of the hindwing. — agirnar Fruhst. (161 d) has a 
white ground of the under surface; the dark median spot in the forewing is somewhat irregularly defined, 
tibullus. the stripe in the hindwing, however, is quite straight. North-East Australia. — tibullus Stgr. (161 d) is a 
very large form from Batjan. The dark marginal area beneath being traversed by a chain of small crescents 
is 8 to 10 cm broad; the base of the wing is also powdered with greyish-brown almost as far as the median 
despoena. stripe which is quite straight and regular through both the wings. - despoena Hew. is almost like almar (146 c). 
but on the yellow under surface the median triangular spot extends almost to the submedian area, and the 
ceramensis. transverse stripe in the hindwing only begins below the costa. eeramensis Ebb. is almost exactly like the 
figured mandli, except that the red colour of the $ above is somewhat lighter and on the forewing beneath 
mandli. the median brown stripe is narrower and longer. From Ceram. mandli Joic. & Talb. (147 d), likewise 
from the Malay Archipelago, has in the $ only yet in the forewing the white discal patch; the $ above is similar 
to D. epijarbas ; but beneath the unmistakable epims-marking like ceramica, except that the median stripe 
of the forewing is more club-shaped, anteriorly thickened, and that on the hindwing the distal band is 
knllios. filled with reddish instead of white. — kallios Fruhst. (161 d as callias) is an insular form from Fergusson; 
the white of the upper surface being abundant in tibullus, is very much reduced; in the forewing and hindwing 
the white discal band is reduced to a roundish patch, and of the large white spot in the hindmarginal 
area of the hindwing there are only yet traces in the shape of a grey brightening. — The species is always 
found singly, but in some districts, particularly New Guinea, not rare. 
meekii. D. meeKii Rothsch. is above lustrous violettish-blue, with blackish marginal areas; anal angle of 
hindwing produced; a chestnut brown spot there is longer haired. Fore wing beneath in the costal half reddish 
chocolate-brown, powdered with a sooty colour; the under surface itself is recognizable by green glistening 
small metallic spots at the base of the costa and behind the cell; also on the hindwing. Oetakwa River. 
