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EUPLOEA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
eucompia. tor Rouyer the natives asked 20 Dutch florins for each example. — eucompta Fruhst. completely resembles 
adorabilis on the forewing above, except that the wing is narrower and the subapical white area less sharply 
defined. The white transverse band of the hindwing less developed than in compta, the three subanal white 
patches of the forewing absent. Beneath the violet discal dots are much less developed. Babber, very rare; 
only 2 d'd' in coll. Fruhstorfer. 
eborad. E. eboraci Gr.-Sm., described from New Pomerania and New Lauenburg, is a very rare species, which 
is unknown to me in nature; forewing brown with a submarginal row of four indistinct bluish white dots be¬ 
fore the apex. Hindwing with a large patch before the apex of the cell and with a curved series of seven si¬ 
milar transcellular spots and a submarginal row of small whitish dots, which decrease from the costal margin 
to the anal angle. 
lacon. E. lacon Gr.-Sm., likewise recorded from New Pomerania, is said to be darker brown than the preced¬ 
ing, forewing suffused with purple and bearing purple spots before the apex. The under surface very simi¬ 
lar to eboraci, with larger spots than on the upperside. 
malaguna. E. malaguna Ribbe, judging from a figure of Pagenstecher’s, is allied to doretta, and is a small, very 
rare species, distinguished by blue reflection on the upper surface. Beneath darker than doretta, with the ante- 
marginal row of dots wanting. From the interior of New Pomerania. 
oceanis. E. oceanis Doll. (81 c), of which its author says that it is difficult to place systematically, has no near 
allies either in the Macromalayan or the Micromalayan region. In the disc of the forewing above there are 
sometimes obscure grey-violet- patches, which are absent in the $ figured. ^ of light brown instead of black 
colour, with a row of six elongate, pointed, whitish violet transcellular streaks and a costal streak. On the hind¬ 
wing the markings of the underside show through. The latter is copiously spotted with white, both wings bear 
two rows of white submarginal patches and a punctiform spot before the apex of the cell. Engano. 
honesta. E. honesta Bllr., described from the Solomons without more exact locality, somewhat resembles oce¬ 
anis in habitus, but the dark brown forewing bears two violet stripes above the submedian, a large whitish 
violet spot before the apex of the cell and 5—6 discal patches of the same colour, of which some are elong¬ 
ated and some rounded. Hind wing above without markings, but beneath as the forewing, only adorned with 
faisina. light blue patches. — faisina Ribbe, from Bougainville, is a race in which the liindwing becomes somewhat- 
lighter distally. Markings as in honesta, only somewhat more pronounced in the 
E. spiculifera closely resembles pydna (80 c) and is one of the rarest species of Euploea. Four island 
dromius. forms are known: dromius Gr.-Sm., from Halmaheira, according to its author with a white spot before the apex 
of the cell, three white spots beyond the cell, a costal dot and two minute subapical dots. Hindwing likewise 
pydna. with cell-patch and 5 patches beyond the cell. — pydna Fruhst. differs from spiculifera Moore from Amboina 
in its smaller size, its darker wings and the lighter violet-white dots on the forewing, pydna, however, has only 
1—2 white apical dots, but no submarginal dots. The under surface on the other hand is much more copi¬ 
ously dotted on the disc of both wings. The hindwing bears a double submarginal row of white dots and also 
5 small white circumcellular spots. In addition a distinct submarginal row of violet-white dots traverses the 
entire forewing. before the apex of the cell a very broad white dot; above the cell 2 white costal streaks, 
beyond the cell 1 white streak and. 1 round dot-. Further a submarginal row of 5 white dots, of which the middle 
ones between the radials are scarcely visible. On the hindwing 3 obsolete white dots. Under surface as 
above, but all the spots much enlarged; in addition there is a double submarginal row of violet-white dots. 
spiculifera. Obi, very rare. — spiculifera Moore (on pi. 80 c as pydna ) differs from pydna in its larger size, a very large 
whitish patch before the end of the cell on the forewing and in the submarginal spots, which as a rule stand 
praxithea. out even more than in the figure. Apparently very rare, on Burn. — praxifhea Fruhst. is a form from the South 
Moluccas, which in size is intermediate between pydna and spiculifera and only shows very small cell- and sub¬ 
marginal dots on the forewing; but beneath praxithea is distinct from the two previous subspecies in the en¬ 
tire absence of dots on the hindwing. Amboina, only 2 in coll. Fruhstorfer. 
radicu. E. radica Fruhst. I possess no Euploea from the Moluccas with which I could compare this species; 
it most nearly approaches honesta Btlr. from the Solomon Islands. The under surface resembles Sticloploea 
in having a submarginal, lighter brown area. The species is easily described, the upperside being entirely black 
with a lighter costal area on the hindwing. Under surface: forewing with a white spot before the end of the 
cell and 3 circumcellular, whitish spots, of which the upper two are round and somewhat violet and the lower 
one oblong and more yellowish. Hindwing with a violet dot before the end of the cell and 6 small violet cir- 
cumcellular patches. The basal part of both wings is black. The forewing is costally and anally light brown 
and the hindwing, as already mentioned, is characterized by a light submarginal area. The $ is as the ex- 
