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EUPLOEA. By II. Fruhstorfer. 
lucasi. the base dark brown, clistally of a characteristic grey-brown shade. Palawan, not rare in January. — lucasi 
Moore, described from Mindanao, is one of the most easily caught butterflies of the island; Semper possessed 
over 450 examples. The white spots on the upper surface of both wings smaller, and hence more isolated, 
than in the Bazilan race. Ranges according to Semper over all the central and southern Philippine Islands. 
bazilana. — bazilana Fruhst. (82 a), of essentially darker brown ground-colour, with purer white spots on both wings, 
of which especially the intramedian spots on the forewing are more pronounced than in lucasi. Bazilan, 
suluana. February to March. — suluana Moore (84d), Avith the general colouring light brown, bears more regular sub¬ 
marginal spots on the forewing and larger antemarginal dots on the hindwing. ¥ as a rule with more numerous 
donovani. white discal dots. Sulu Archipelago. — donovani Fldr., unknown to me, must be very rare, as it has not 
bee.i brought to Europe again since Felder’s time. There is perhaps also a mistake as the locality on the 
kuroiwae. part of the author. North Celebes. — kuroiwae Mats, is a race from the Loo Choo Islands, only discovered 
in 1905, which is strikingly similar to lucasi. Subapical spots of the forewing as in bazilana , but the sub- 
marginal band of the hindwing only composed of small rounded patches as in butra. Moreover, the subanal 
spots of the forewing much reduced. Inner margin of the forewing moderately concave, as in swainsoni. 
Described from the Yayeyama. 
abjecla. E. abjecta Btlr. (82 c ? not cf), a completely isolated species, cT with narrow forewing, strongly ex- 
curved at the inner margin. Sexual stripe long and broad as in swainsoni, ground-colour light brown with 
darker costal area on the hindwing above. Both wings beneath clistally paller, with delicate violet tinge. 
Forewing with submedian streak, which as in swainsoni occurs only in the female, hindwing with 2 pairs of 
interneural stripes, which are longer and broader than above. Palau Islands. 
E. diana is peculiar to the Celeban subregion, is divided into three local races on the main island 
diana. itself and extends southwards on to the elongated satellite island of Saleyer. diana Btlr., the name-type, is 
the race richest in colour and most widely distributed in collections. Forewing with whitish violet sexual 
stripe, two very large, nearly quadrate ultracellular patches, several costal and submarginal dots. Hindwing 
with two discal spots, a series of submarginal spots and in addition a row of marginal dots. In the ? there 
are further whitish discal patches beside and beyond the cell of both wings. Under surface grey-brown with 
grey or violet-white patch in the median area of the hindwing. Common on low-lying meadows with long 
grass in the coast-forests of Toli Toli, in November to December. Extending southwards to the Bay of Palos 
horsfieldi (Donggala, August). Common everywhere in the Minahassa. — horsfieldi Fldr. is the strongly darkened race 
which inhabits the southern arm of Celebes and is at the waterfall of Maros one of the first butterflies which 
the traveller encounters. Sexual stripe of the cf black. Submarginal spots of the hind wing mostly larger 
and the whitish violet areas which in diana surround the spots on the forewing are wanting in the cfcf, 
fruhslorferi. whilst in the ¥¥ as a rule the upper transcellular patches are absent. — fruhstorferi Bob. is a rainy-season 
tombugensis form, in which the white costal and cell-dots of the hindwing almost entirely disappear. — tombugensis 
Fruhst. (82 a) is the melanotic extreme of the species, as a rule without a trace of white discal patches and 
with grey-black sexual stripe on the forewing. cfcT from Tombugo are the darkest, while ¥¥ from the more 
southerly harbour of Kendari form a transition to horsfieldi in the white intramedian patches ..of the forewing. 
laodikeia. — laodikeia subsp. nor. is a pronounced geographical form, whose discovery is due to Dr. Martin. Ground¬ 
colour deep black-brown, almost without a trace of a violet tinge; sexual stripe grey-black without any violet 
bordering; subapical and submarginal spots of the forewing extremely prominent, pure white, three times as 
broad as in diana, contrasting vividly with the dark ground-colour. Submarginal patch of the hindwing as 
in horsfieldi, cell- and median dots absent. Saleyer, in January. 
E. maura replaces diana on the adjacent islands to the east and differs principally in its small size, 
length of the forewing 33—34 mm. against 40—43. Above and beneath unicolorous brown, only with white 
maura. discal spots without violet tinge, sexual stripe always black-brown. maura Hoffr. similar to corvina Fruhst. 
corvina. (86a), but without white cell-spot and without any dots on the hindwing above. Described by Hopffer from 
Celebes, but really coming from the Togean Islands in the Tomini Gulf. — corvina Fruhst. (86a) bears above 
as a rule only one fine white dot before the apex of the cell and 2 small obsolescent spots between the 
median veins of the forewing, 3 submarginal dots and a white cell-spot on the hindwing. All the spots are 
enlarged on the under surface and their colour is changed to violet. The submarginal row is more complete 
wiskotli. and on the hindwing there are further 3—4 minute discal dots. Sula Mangoli, Sula Besi. — wiskotti Bob- 
has the same arrangement of all the white spots and beneath of all the violet ones, except that they are all, 
in particular the cell-patch of the hindwing, about three times larger than in corvina. Bangkai. 
lewa. E. lewa Doli. (85a) is the darkest extreme of a series of forms which inhabit the eastern Microma- 
baudiniana. layan islands, of which baudiniana Godt. (= orope Bdo.) must be regarded as the name-type. From baudini- 
ana, which is unicolorous brown, lewa differs in the deep violet or steel-blue sheen of the upper surface of 
the forewing and the absence of the series of white dots on the hindwing. On the underside ol the hind¬ 
wing a yellowish grey discal area is noticeable, in which are placed 5—6 whitish yellow patches in an irre¬ 
gular row. Cells of both wings with violet spot, which is clistally surrounded by 5—6 dots of the same colour 
