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EUPLOEA. By H. Frith storeer 
Rob., from Flores, shows a striking resemblance to werneri, but the pattern of the upperside corresponds to 
that of lamos, on the other hand the much broadened white patches on the hindwing beneath agree more with 
werneri than deheeri. Doubtless rare, only one pair as yet known. 
E. werneri Fruhst. (86 d). On the small Vulcan Island, only 20 km from German New Guinea, the 
Swiss botanist Dr. Eugen Werner has discovered a species of Euploea which has not hitherto been observed 
on the main island. This interesting new species approaches deheeri Doh. from Sumbawa, suavissima Fruhst. 
from Lombok and lamos Fruhst. from East Java, but differs from them all in the larger white submarginal 
spots of the forewing, the presence of a row of white patches on the hindwing and a circumcellular group of 
5 smaller white dots on the forewing. In the cell of the forewing, before the apex, is placed a further large 
white dot. In the 9 all these white spots are essentially larger and more distinct and along the submedian runs 
an oblong white transverse streak, which occasionally occurs in the $ also. Under surface black without the 
light patch on the hindwing so characteristic of deheeri. On the hindwing there are likewise 6—7 transcellu- 
lar white spots and the apical dot before the end of the cell. The figure (86 d) renders a further description 
superfluous. The relationship with deheeri is revealed in the genitalia, but the valve has a more regular, less 
distinctly rounded form, which recalls a bird’s head; its ventral process is somewhat more sharply constricted 
and the distal end more pointed. 
batcsi. E. bafesi, originally described from Halmaheira, is an exclusively Papuan species. I have no exam¬ 
ples which agree with the name-type, foatesi Fldr., compared by its author with melina Godt. They closely ap- 
pinaria. proach the island race pinaria subsp. nov. figured as batesi (86 c), which differs from all its allies in having the 
distal margin of both wings nearly grey-yellow, especially in the 9- : occasionally with two small violet sub- 
apical spots on the forewing, otherwise like the $ absolutely without markings. Forewing with a cell-dot and 
two intramedian dots, hindwing the same, but with six circumcellular dots suffused with violet. Marginal 
mimica. area of the hindwing whitish. Waigeu, very rare. — mimica subsp. nov. somewhat surpasses pinaria in size, 
the ground-colour darkened, the distal margins more red than yelloAV-brown and the basal colou- 
publilia. ring of the hindwing beneath decidedly red-brown. Dutch New Guinea, Sorong. — publilia subsp. nov. 
is a relatively small race, above almost black-brown, marginal area of the hindwing much darken ed, with 
distinct, black distal margin, basal area of the hindwing beneath dark coffee-brown, with strikingly 
broad, light yellowish border which extends far along the inner margin and is sometimes suffused 
with white, sometimes with violet. German New Guinea, occurring in great abundance at the Astro¬ 
labe Bay. 
nubaida. E. nubaida Gr.-Sm., described from Halmaheira and unknown to me in nature, is according to its au¬ 
thor a larger species and differs chiefly in the absence of any pale distal area on both wings. Ground-colour 
velvety brown with paler costal margin to the hindwing. 
E. wallacei exclusively inhabits the Moluccas and forms, as its author pointed out, a group by itself 
gilda. on account of its long, uniformly narrow wings. — gilda Fruhst. (82 e <$, 86 c $, on the plate misprinted $) dif¬ 
fers from wallacei from Batjan .in the lighter yellow-brown discal part of both wings and in the much enlarged 
white submarginal spots of the forewing. The under surface is darker, but as above the white patches stand 
arcs, out more strongly than in the Batjan race. Obi. — ares Fruhst. forms a connecting-link between wallacei and 
gilda, being lighter in the discal part than wallacei, but somewhat darker than gilda. The white 
dotting is likewise intermediate ; on the other hand both wings are beneath even more copiously 
spotted with white than in gilda. Buru, Miro, time of flight November. Must be very rare on Buru, as 
wallacei. Doherty has not taken it there.— wallacei Fldr., the name-type, considerably surpasses gilda and ares in size, 
its upper surface is dark brown throughout, with appreciably lighter middle of the wings and in the as a 
rule wit hout white submarginal dots, which in the 99 are occasionally slightly indicated. Batjan, Halma¬ 
heira, Morotai. 
E. confusa forms the natural continuation of the preceding species in the Papuan region and it is not 
grayi. impossible that it should even be specifically united with it. — grayi Fldr. (82 e), above and beneath dark 
brown, with yellow-brown disc in the <$$ and light yellow, distally even whitish area in the 9?- In the latter 
the lighter area of the forewing even encroaches into the cell. Most 99 are above much lighter than the ex- 
faunia. ample figured. Aru. — faunia subsp. nov. differs from grayi in the much narrower (scarcely entering the cell), 
but much longer yellowish area of the forewing in the 9?, and in the much darker rjU- in which the discal part 
confusa. is almost red-brown. Dutch New Guinea, Sorong. — confusa Bilr. (= waigensis Slgr.), described from Waigeu, 
