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the tail, but with the head upwards; the pupal stage lasts about 10 days. The butterfly flies all the year 
round, in parts of northern Ceylon in great abundance, and is very fond of the flowers of Lantana, on which 
it hangs with the wings half open, eucharis ascends in India to 7000 ft., reaches in Kashmir the Palearctic 
Region and varies but little. 
D. hyparete, a species distributed from the Himalayas to Formosa and in the south from the Malay Penin¬ 
sula to Celebes in a large number of local forms, some of which are sharply separated. — peirene Fruhst. (51 b), peirene. 
from Formosa, where it occurs up to about 4000 ft., has on the under surface a more extended white submarginal 
area than luzonensis. Specimens also occur with light ochre-yellow or orange-coloured submarginal spots on the 
underside of the hindwing (maenia form. nov.). — Of luzonensis Fldr. (51 d, e) the larva is known. This is entire- i uzonens i s 
ly lemon-yellow, only head, legs and anus being black, the dorsum with yellow hairs. It lives on Averhoa 
bilimbi, where it is often found hanging by long threads. — mindorensis subsp. nov. has as a rule fewer and smaller mindorensis. 
red submarginal spots on the hindwing; similar specimens also occur on Cebu, Bohol and Camotes. — minda- 
naensis Mitis (51 c) is a small form with strongly darkened $$, less red on the under surface in the figured dry- 
season-form and broader red in the larger rainy-season-form. Mindanao, South Philippines. — In palawanica Stgr. palawanica. 
(51 b) all the veins and the distal margin of the hindwing are more broadly black. Palawan Island. -— Iucina Dist. lucina. 
( = jolana Stgr.) (51 d), from the Sulu Islands, is distinguished by its almost entirely white upper surface and 
the absence of yellow colour on the hindwing beneath. — stolli Btlr., from southern China, has the $ almost stolli. 
entirely black above and on the under surface of the hindwing the yellow basal tinge reaches to the black distal 
margin. — Very close to it is ciris subsp. nov. (51 b), whose are distinguished by a broad black apical area ciris. 
and whose §§ are conspicuous by the darker cell-area on the forewing. Siam, Cochin China, Tonkin, Tenas- 
serim. In Bangkok and Saigon ciris was quite an ornament to the gardens and pleasure-grounds, where it flew 
up and down under the shade of the high Ficus, alighting from time to time on the upperside of the leaves. — 
hierte Hbn. (51 a), from the mainland of India, ascends in the Himalayas to 6000 ft., but is no longer common hierte. 
at this extreme limit of its range. — As devaca Moore an aberration is known with the cell of the hindwing devaca. 
beneath suffused with scarlet, whilst ah. indica Wall, denotes an aberration with almost entirely white apex to indica. 
the forewing. -— ethire Boll, is a very light race from South India, which has also been taken in Bengal, beneath ethire. 
with light lemon-yellow tinge on the hindwing and very large yellow subapical spots on the forewing. — meta- ynetarete. 
rete Btlr. is the strongly darkened geographical race from the Malay Peninsula and Singapore. — despoliata subsp. despoliata. 
nov., from Sumatra, very nearly approaches it, but the red spots on the underside of the hindwing are much 
less conspicuous, often only 3 instead of 6 submarginal spots present, moreover the proximal black bordering 
of these is distinctly narrower. —- In diva Fruhst. (51 b), from North Borneo, the yellow shade on the hindwing diva. 
again reaches the much broader proximal black bordering of the submarginal red spots, which are still more 
prominent. — All the islands round Sumatra produce distinct local forms, of which haemorhoea Voll., from haemorhoea. 
Banka, is characterised by orange-yellow basal spots and only 3 short, broad red submarginal patches on the 
hindwing beneath. The forewing remains almost entirely white.-— simplex Btlr., locality unknown, has the simplex. 
proximal third of the hindwing beneath pale chrome-yellow.— jataka Fruhst. (51 d), from the Batu Islands, jataka. 
has the forewing grey-black and the under surface of the hindwing dark lemon-yellow throughout. — hypo- hypopelia. 
pelia Hag. differs from jataka by a row of yellow submarginal strigae on the forewing and much more broadly 
black veins, as well as a grey-yellow base to the hindwing; from the Mentawei Islands, only 1 $ known. — 
niasana Kheil (51 d), very light in the^, whilst the $$ show above broad black veins, yellow subapical strigae and niasana. 
densely scaled interneural areas. An aberration with yellow instead of red submarginal spots was named amarilla amarilla. 
by Kheil. — hyparete L., from Java and Bali, is very variable; scarcely two specimens agree. The rainy-season- hyparete. 
form (51 c) is broadly margined with black above, whilst the dry-season-form from East Java, aureivenula aureivenula. 
form. nov. (51 c), shows large yellow apical strigae and the upper surface of the hindwing is suffused with light 
yellow. Very common in Java, where the species ascends to 2500 ft. and is very common at the edges of open 
woods. Larva ochre-yellow with fine lateral hairs of the same colour. Head and legs black. Pupa beautiful 
light yellow, 12 ventral spines black, the others yellow (Vollenhofen). 
D. rosenbergi Voll. (= chrysoleuca Mitis ) (52 a) is the Celebes representative of the hyparete- group, 
a stately species, above in the $ almost entirely suffused with black-grey. In South Celebes rosenbergi flies all 
the year round, in large numbers in March and April at the end of the heaviest rainy season. The larva does 
not differ from that of despoliata from Sumatra, except that it is larger, dark yellow with light yellow and white 
hairs, and lives on Loranthus, which is parasitical on mango trees. The butterflies first appear very early in 
the day about 6 or half past 6 o’clock, and then again late in the evening (Martin). — In the north of the island 
occurs lorquini Fldr. (= catamelas Stgr.) (52 b), where the species ascends from the sea-coast to 3000 ft. The 
black bands on the underside of both wings are broader, the cell-region with more extended black scaling. 
D. mitisi Stgr. is a rare species from the Sula Islands, with still darker under surface to the hindwing, mitisi. 
which also bears larger red spots than rosenbergi. 
D. periboea Godt. (51 e), a variable species, which is very local on Java, but in some years occurs abun- periboea. 
dantly-even in large towns, such as Soerabaja and Bandong. — wallacei Bothsch. is the name of the race from Bali, wallacei. 
rosenbergi. 
lorquini. 
