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in the narrower subapical spot of the forewing and the more extensive basal black of the hindwing; this is 
kreon Fruhst. lereon. 
T. hercules Mob. is likewise closely allied to the kuhni-prusias group, and Frtiiistorfer separates hcrcules. 
besides from this North-Celebensic form specimens from South Celebes, which were captured near Bua-Kraeng, 
as androstheties Fruhst. This species is considerably larger than insularis, but otherwise rather similar, with andmslhc- 
broader wings, the distal margin less oblique; by the reduction of the reddish-yellow colour it almost resembles 
more prusias (172 c), at least on the forewings, the hindwings remain more extensively reddish-yellow, only 
the basal portion is somewhat more intensely covered with black hairs and scales. Beneath slightly irrorated 
with olive. 
T. oceanica Mob. is entirely unknown to me; the diagnose runs as follows: smaller than insularis. oceanica. 
lighter yellow, not so fiery orange, on the forewing marked almost the same, on the hindwing with a complete 
black marginal band which projects proximally below vein 2 like a tooth. Beneath light yellow, hind-margin 
and anal angle of forewing black like the anal portion of the hindwing which is otherwise almost unicoloured 
yellow, except some olive-yellowish irroration in the basal area. Oceania ? Mabille certainly does not under¬ 
stand this genus and its species clearly, for another species which is likewise to originate from ,,Oceania“, though 
he does not say from which island, and which he denominates m elan ion, he quotes shortly before among the met anion 
genus Padraona. Very similar to oceanica, but much more extensively black, so that the yellow colour of the 
forewing, being of a somewhat redder tint, is greatly reduced. Hindwing almost quite black with a small orange 
discal spot. Beneath intensely strewn with olive-blackish. 
T. kobros Plotz (= procles Nic.) (172 d) does not differ much above from the bambusae group of hoibros. 
this genus, but it. is at once recognisable by the under surface where both wings are of a bright honey-colour, 
the fore wing at the hind-margin, the hindwing before the hind-margin with bright black markings. „ Aru and 
Key Is. 
T. dobboe Plotz (172 d), likewise from the Key and Aru Is., is at once recognisable by the much dobboe. 
deeper black colour above and the very dark ground-colour of the hindwing beneath, out of which the very 
short golden yellow distal band brightly shines forth, much larger than kobros. — aruana Plotz (= autoleon aruana. 
Misk., macleayi Meyr. & Low. nec Plotz ? § = oharina Stgr.) (172 d) has still more blackened wings than typical 
dobboe from which species, however, it can hardly be separated. Particularly in the hindwing the orange band 
forms a very narrow stripe. Aru Is., New Guinea. — sarighamitta Fruhst., from German New Guinea, has very sangham.il 
much reduced ochreous markings, only the yellow cellular streak is broader. — In meforica Fruhst., from the , . 
° •/ meforica. 
Island of Mefor, the yellow areas above are broader though paler yellow, beneath without the reddish tint. 
ta 
T. ohara Plotz (172 e) is closely allied to the preceding species and is perhaps only their representative ohara. 
on the Australian Continent. Here the black colour above is so much reduced that at least the almost resembles 
bambusae-^ , whereas the $ exhibits an almost entirely blackened basal half of the fore wing above, as is to be 
seen from the figure. But beneath the ground of the wings is quite dark brown with dull ochreous spots, the 
spot in the cell of the hindwing being absent. From Cape York, Kuranda, Cairns, and Mackay, from January 
till April. 
T. trichopepla Low. (= palmarum Meyr. & Low., nec Mr.). This species likewise resembles palmarum trichopepla 
(172 a, b) in the so much that it was at first taken to be it, but the $ is quite different, above lighter brown, 
the yellow bands above paler, less distinct, whithout distinct yellow along the costal margin of the fore wing, 
and without the yellow wedge-shaped streak in the cell of the hindwing. Under surface light wine-brown, 
which colour covers all the markings. Scott took this species to be phineus Cr. which, however, denotes a 
South-American Phemiades from the group of propertius. North-Eastern Australia, Mackay to Port Darwin, 
November till March. 
T. sperthias Fldr. (= palmarum Scott nec Mr.) (172 e). This large species undoubtedly represents sperthias. 
the dobboe — ohara — aruana group in the south-eastern districts of the Australian Continent, where the insect 
occurs yet near Sydney, though not very common. Larger than dobboe and aruana, easily discernible by the 
cell of the forewing being above in both sexes of a glaring orange-yellow colour, and by the red-brown under 
surface showing a bright yellow transverse band on all the wings. The band of the forewing is in front and behind 
bordered with jet-black. - ulama Btlr. (= ismenoides Mab.), from Queensland and New South Wales, is so ulama. 
very much like sperthias that some authors cancelled it as a synonym; the most remarkable difference from 
sperthias consists in the bright orange band of the disc of the hindwing being of a dull colour in ulama. — The 
upper surface recalls that of a palmarum — Larva on various species of palms, such as Livistona australis, 
Kentia fosteriana, and Belmoriana; the imago flies from November till February. 
T. macleayi Plotz is extremely similar to sperthias, but the yellow macular band of the fore wing macleayi 
is interrupted by the absence of the connecting spots between the radial branches behind the cell-end, and the 
uppermost spot of the lower group, between the lower radial branch and the upper median branch, is removed 
far towards the margin. Patria: ,,Amboina, New Holland”, which statement is probably incorrect. 
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