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is characterized by lighter brown ground-colour and the ?? show a light violet median area, which is sometimes 
much widened, two examples even having the cell and the apical part of the forewing also suffused with 
violet. Only in confusa the blue circumcellular patches on the underside of the hindwing are distinct. - 
melia Fruhst. , from Fergusson Island, differs from confusa from Waigeu in the dark, almost black-brown ground- melia. 
colour of both wings, which is especially pronounced beneath. The light discal spot of the forewing peculiar 
to confusa is much widened in melia and continues about equally broad nearly to the distal margin. This 
spot is in confusa whitish violet, in melia basally reddish brown, becoming yellowish white distally. ■— catana caiana. 
Frulist. (81a) differs from melia in the unicolorous, dark red-brown discal area of the forewing, which parti¬ 
cularly in the ?? from German New Guinea occupies also the lower half of the cell. The hindwing is quite 
as dark as in melia, but differs from it in having a much lighter, coffee-brown anal area on the upperside. 
German and British New Guinea. According to Hagen occurring not very rarely in the rainy season, 
japudia subsp. nov. was only recently discovered, on the occasion of the advance of the Dutch expedition to japudia. 
the snow-mountains of above 4500 m in the southern part of Dutch New Guinea. Both sexes of the new 
race may be recognized by a strikingly light and much broadened yellowish white median area on the forewing, 
which in the ? extends to far beyond the middle of the cell. Under surface of the hindwing without a trace 
of violet or blue discal patches. 
E. alecto (= melancholia Btlr.), a Papuan species, which is distributed westwards to the Moluccas and 
southwards to Australia and is divided into several local forms, some of which are highly specialized, alecto alecto- 
Btlr., the first described subspecies, inhabits Amboina and the Southern Moluccas. Both sexes are easy to 
distinguish from the figured barsine (82b) by the presence on the hindwing of two rows of smaller sub¬ 
marginal spots, lightly scaled with brown. On the under surface in the middle of each wing are five rather 
large violet patches of different sizes bordering the cell. The forewing of the cfcf frequently bears further 
a row of subapical and that of the $? always a row of subterminal dots. •— zodica Fruhst. cf differs from zodica. 
nox from the Aru Islands and alecto from the South Moluccas in the entirely black forewing with no dots 
and on the hindwing in having the white dots at the distal margin almost suppressed. Under surface: forewing 
similiar to alecto, but with smaller costal and discal spot. The hindwing bears likewise smaller discal and 
marginal dots. Obi, very rare, only 1 cf known. — nox Btlr. approaches barsine above and is distinguished nox . 
by 4 or 5 distinct white subapical patches on the forewing and small submarginal dots on the hindwing. 
The small violet discal spots on the underside of the wings even smaller than in zodica. On the Aru Islands, 
apparently very scarce. — diadema Moore is a subspecies especially copiously spotted with white, the subapical diadema. 
spots of the hindwing even more strongly expressed than in nox, hindwing always with two rows of white 
submarginal patches, of which the proximal one is composed of especially large, rounded oval interneural areas. 
The forewing of the ?? bears in addition a bordering of small antemarginal dots. On the other hand almost 
all the small cell-spots and transcellular spots on the under surface are absent. British New Guinea, flying 
in January. — barsine Fruhst. (82b). c? differing from diadema from British New Guinea in a prolonged row barsine 
of submarginal spots on the forewing, which are only about 1 f 0 as large as those of diadema. The hindwing 
bears only one row of white patches, which are larger and more rounded than in diadema. The marginal 
row of white dots is entirely absent in the cf. The underside of the forewing is without dots and on the 
hindwing there is likewise only a submarginal row of white spots. Fergusson, rare. — monilifera Moore is rnonilifera. 
an unimportant, somewhat darkened form of diadema , based on a ? from Thursday Island. — misagenes misagenes. 
subsp. nov. is velvety brown, distally a little lighter, with a submarginal row of nine white spots, curved before 
the apex, of which the first three, placed almost parallel to the costal margin, are the smallest and the fourth 
is the largest; posteriorly they decrease again in size; the last is double behind the lower median. Hindwing 
with a submarginal row of white spots beginning at the anal angle, the posterior ones elongate-oval, the 
upper ones rounded and more isolated. A complete row of white marginal dots, which is repeated on the 
under surface. (Hagen). Described from a cf from Dampier Island. 
E. eichhorni Stgr. (= boreas Mi ski) (81c), a magnificent form, which replaces alecto in Australia and eichhorni. 
is probably a good species. Upper surface deep velvety black. Beneath as above, but with brown apical 
area on the forewing and the hindwing light brown throughout. Forewing with violet streak at the median 
and the normal blue discal spots of alecto , but more prominent. According to Waterhouse boreas Misk. is a 
synonym of eichhorni. North Australia, Queensland. 
E. ebenina Btlr., very nearly approaching alecto nox Btlr., but at once distinguishable by the intensive ebenina. 
blue reflection on the upper surface of the wings. The concave row of white subapical patches is prolonged 
to the submedian, the hindwing as in diadema bears two rows of white marginal spots, the proximal row 
consisting of larger oval spots, the distal of mere dots. The dots on the under surface appear to va.iy according 
to the sex. The cf bears no discal spots at all, the ? extremely pronounced violet cell-spot and 5 or 6 trans¬ 
cellular spots. Aru, apparently very sparingly. — nymphas subsp. nov. differs from ebenina in the presence of nymphas. 
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