EUPLOEA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
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Only a few examples known. Christmas Island, to the south of Java.— neptis Rob., from Flores, shows a dis¬ 
tinct light patch, approaching bandana, on the forewing, on which, especially beneath, a light brown sub- 
marginal area is perceptible, the first traces of which are visible in elwesiana from Lombok. Hitherto only a 
few known. — climena Cr ., the name-type from Amboina, varies much in size, the darkest examples, pro¬ 
bably belonging to the rainy-season form, have the forewing 46 mm in length, whilst $$ and $$ of zinkeni 
Fldr., collected in August, only measure 36 mm and bear on the hindwing a whitish, submarginal band., visi¬ 
ble also above, which, however, is likewise always slightly indicated beneath in climena. Both forms bear very 
large white submarginal dots on the hindwing. — melina Godt. is a form without subapical dots on the hind¬ 
wing beneath; likewise described from Amboina. Amboina, Saparoea, Ceram, very common. — dohertyi Hold. 
is a smaller race, as a rule without perceptible whitish or yellowish submarginal area on the hindwing beneath. 
Not rare on Burn. — bandana Fruhst. (82 d) forms a kind of transition to eurypon (86e), only the submargi¬ 
nal bands on both wings above are not white, but light brown, but beneath become distinctly white. Banda, 
not rare. — sobrina Rob. has the colouring of the under surface in common with bandana, but differs above 
in the darkened forewing, which shows a retrogression to climena, whilst the white marginal area of the hincl- 
wing indicates its relationship with eurypon. Goram. — Valeriana Fruhst., from the small island of Roma be¬ 
tween Wetter and Dammer, to the north-east of Timor, shows a sharply defined quadrate white spot on the 
distally light, basally dark broAvn forewing and a whitish submarginal band on the hindwing above, distally 
changing gradually into brown. On the under surface the white patches are reproduced. —- Finally, eurypon 
Hew. (86 e) constitutes the albinotic extreme of the entire series of forms, with broad, pure white marginal 
area on the hindwing, the brown ground-colour completely suppressed distally. On the under surface the white 
area extends to the apex of the cell. Common on all the Key Islands in October and November, but occur¬ 
ring in single specimens all the year round. — vicina Fldr. is an allied race of somewhat smaller size and with 
the white bands less developed. Aru Islands, unknown to me in nature. — doretta Pagenst. I think from ex¬ 
amples in my collection should be referred to climena , from which it only differs in the more rounded wings, 
the rather dark and more unicolorous hindwing and above all in the smaller blue-white discal dots on the under 
surface. Bismarck Archipelago, New Lauenburg. — mangoensis Btlr. is a further, rare race of somewhat smal¬ 
ler size. Micronesia. — misenus Misk. LTpper surface brown-black, hindwing with lighter brown anal angle 
and a submarginal row of only faintly indicated whitish dots. Under surface somewhat less dotted in climena. 
Described from Cape York, wanting in my collection. 
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E. lugens Btlr., distinguished by the narrow, oval hindwing, appears to replace climena on New 
Guinea. — smithi Moore is an allied form, only known to me from the description; somewhat larger than lu¬ 
gens, forewing with white submarginal spots, of which the two lowest are equal in size, and a submarginal row 
of small white dots. Under surface as above, forewing with a small blue-white cell-spot and five insignificant 
discal patches, an arrangement which is repeated on the underside of the hindwing. New Guinea, without 
exact locality. 
E. palmedo Doh., which its author compares with leiva Doh. (85 a), is an ally of climena and compta 
and similar to adorabilis Fruhst. (86 e). Forewing dark brown, distally paler, with a quadrate white subapi¬ 
cal spot, which is divided by three thin dark veins. Hindwing above the subcostal vein nearly white, the me¬ 
dian part brown, the distal and subanal region appreciably lighter. Forewing with a blue-white cell-spot and 
two discal patches, also traces of stripes between the lower medians. Hindwing likewise with cell-dot and six 
very small circumcellular dots, as well as a row of 6—7 larger spots in the yellowish discal area. Only one or 
two small submarginal dots. Rare in the interior of Sumba. — According to Doherty a similar species oc¬ 
curs on Sumbawa, with, the margins broadly whitish and without the white subapical spot on the forewing 
(possibly climena elwesiana Nicev. is meant). — adorabilis Fruhst. (86e), which I formerly united with compta 
Rob., I now unhesitatingly refer here as a further Micromalayan race. Upperside as in the figure, with vi¬ 
vid dark blue-violet reflection. Underside differing from that of similar races of climena in a row of sharply 
expressed subterminal dots and a complete row of white submarginal dots, which latter are placed in qua¬ 
drate white areas, proximally bordered with brown-violet. Wetter, very rare, only 2 $$ in coll. Frtjhstoreer. 
E. compta, an extremely handsome species, inhabits all those eastern islands of the Timor and Timor- 
Laut Groups on which climena does not occur, and may possibly be specifically identical with the climena- 
series. The most essential difference from climena consists in three strongly expressed white patches on the 
forewing and a post discal band of six very large white spots on the hindwing, differing in size.— virudha Fruhst. 
(80 d), of which we figure the upper surface, is the largest race. The underside only differs in five obliquely placed, 
small white subapical dots on the forewing, 3 pairs of white subterminal patches in the middle of the wing 
and the light violet cell-spot and discal dots of both wings, which are arranged as in climena. Dammer.-— compta 
Rob., described from a $ from Timor-Laut, is somewhat smaller, but has still more extended and purer 
white markings on the upper surface of both wings. Very rare on Timor-Laut, where according to the collec- 
neptis. 
climena. 
zinkeni. 
melina. 
dohertyi. 
bandana. 
sobrina. 
valeriana. 
eurypon. 
vicina. 
doretta. 
mangoensis. 
misenus. 
lugens. 
smithi. 
palmedo. 
adorabilis. 
virudha. 
compta. 
