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sexual spot of the $ forewing; apex of forewing somewhat truncate. Luzon. — cirta Fruh.st., from Bazilan, is said cirta. 
to have rounder wings than simplicissima and certhia ; the author compares it with certhia which, however, 
cannot belong to this species owing to its long anal lobe and the absence of the androconial spot in the <§. 
prabha Fruhst., from Palawan, is said to be darker than all the Sunda races. — hadria Nic., from Perak, prabha. 
is not known to me, but it is said to be the form figured by Distant as badra in his ,,Rhopaloc. Malay.“ (pi. 35, Oadrm. 
fig. 3). Accordingly it is a form being in the $ on both sides quite dark brown, above spotless, on the hindwing 
beneath the straight transverse band is only indicated by the proximal and distal bordering being marked 
by darker shading. Malacca. — yanuna Fruhst ., from Nias, is recognisable by smaller and more indistinct spots yanuna. 
beneath. — tyrius Fruhst. (166 a), from Java, has very large hyaline spots in the $ forewing. Sometimes there tyrius. 
are besides the discal hyaline spots some minute subapical ones. — liondi Fruhst. is the Sumatran form; it liondi. 
is very similar to yanuna ; separated from tyrius by smaller hyaline spots of the §§. — This species fully 
deserves its name ,,mixta“, for all the authors have hitherto mixed up different species with it, and by no means 
in all the cases it is possible to keep the forms reckoned hereto asunder. 
H. simplicissima Mab. To this species mostly specimens were reckoned that are allied to the preceding simplicissi- 
species, whereas Frlthstorfer regards as simplicissimus specimens from the Northern Moluccas, which are ma - 
so very similar to celaenus being metallic lustrous beneath, that simplicissima may only be the northern race 
of celaenus. 
H. moestissinia Mab., from Celebes, is easily discernible from the preceding species by the white moestissi- 
median band of the hindwing beneath which, however, is traversed by a black ray extending from the jet- ma - 
black anal spot to the base of the wing. According to the shape and width of this band one can distinguish 
various forms. — pathana Fruhst. (166 a) is the form from the Philippines, distributed as far as Palawan, in pathana. 
which the white band of the hindwing is very much widened. — palinda Sivh., from Java, is unknown.to me, palinda. 
it is neither mentioned in Prefers and Snellen, Rhopaloc. of Java. — In mimosa Swh. (166 b) the white mimosa. 
band is narrow and interrupted in the anal portion, but not by a black ray proceeding from the anal spot, 
but by the brown ground-colour. Borneo. — chabrona Plotz (166 b), from Indo-China and Sumatra, chabrona. 
has a beautiful violet metallic lustre beneath, and on the fore wing there are in the $ quite faint traces 
of minute hyaline spots. — coulteri Wood.-Mas. is said to be very closely allied to chabrona , but to differ coulteri. 
in exhibiting a very distinctly defined white band beneath. But Ploetz 1 chabrona has no tarnished bands 
as Wood-Mason writes, who probably had not the right chabrona Plotz before him. On the other hand, coulteri-rfrf 
are said to exhibit scent-scales on the fore wing above, situate in velvety stripes along the sub median and above 
it. For this reason coulteri is also generally treated as a distinct species; Piepers and Snellen range it with 
the next species. Described from Cachar. 
H. alexis F. (= chromus Cr.) (Vol. I, pi. 89 h) (166 b) *). with a comma-shaped androconium of alexis. 
the fore wing, $ with 2 often very small hyaline spots. But as malayana is also similar, many authors have 
confounded one with the other *). Frtthstorfer means to separate them by the under surface which, accor¬ 
ding to Cramer, is in , .chromus''" slightly tinted reddish, the band being rather straight, dull white, and closed 
by a black anal spot; in malayana it is, according to Felder, metallic leek-green, somewhat irregular. Among 
the forms of alexis the typical one goes farthest to the north and enters the palearctic region in Central China, 
though it is not common there. From Shanghai to the south, however, it becomes more and more common, 
and along the Formosa Strait it numbers among the most common lepidoptera flying to the lantern in the 
evening. — In Formosa itself it occurs in the form vairacana Fruhst. (166 c) with a darker upper surface and vairacana. 
a rather dull brown, lustreless under surface. — haslia Swh. (= bilunata Meyr. & Low. nec Btlr.), from haslia. 
Queensland, is discernible from bilunata Btlr. by the absence of the mark; otherwise also similar to contempta 
in the exterior; it resembles typical alexis, but it has broader bands; to the south it extends to the 
Richmond River, where it flies in spring (October) and again in summer. — ganapata Fruhst. (= attenuata ganapata. 
Mab. nec Stgr.), known from German New Guinea and Obi, probably also in some other islands, is larger, 
the body and the proximal halves of the wings covered with longer greenish hair, the hyaline spots in 
the forewing smaller than in alexis, the band of the hindwing very broad, white, powdered with bluish-grey, 
with a bright bluish-violet distal border. Basal halves of all the wings more intensely light steel-blue than in 
the allied races. — laniinata IIbn., by a mistake reported from Surinam, may be merely an aberration, distinguished laminata. 
by the white band of the hindwing being much broader and slightly undulate. — bilunata Btlr. is a name given bilunata. 
to the , .chromus"" from the Fidji Is., where the species is not rare; but there are no constant differences 
between Fidji-specimens and Australian alexis (= haslia). — Larva yellowish-brown, beneath darker; across 
the dorsum 3 blackish longitudinal stripes and across the segments short thick transverse lines. On the sides 
of the dorsal line there are large black square spots. Head red with a face-like marking. The imagines begin 
to fly towards 9 p. m. 
H. almea Swh. was described ftom North Borneo, according to a single A which entirely resembles almea. 
the following malayana on the hindwing beneath, whereas the shape is that of alexis. Above uni-coloured dark 
*) Mabille in Vol. I, p. 341. 
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