EUPLOEA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
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E. illudens Btlr., a small species, has about the same colouring as cerberus Btlr. (81c), but the wing- illudens. 
contour much as in corvina Frulist. (86 a); it is so far only known from the Bismarck Achipelago, in my col¬ 
lection from New Lauenburg and New Pomerania; according to Butler also occurring on New Mecklenburg, 
from whence, however, 1 have before me a much larger race. The ground-colour of illudens is dark brown, 
forewing of the c I'd' with three to four, that of the ?? with five small grey-white subapical dots, underside with 
light blue cell-spot and three resp. six circumcellular patches. Forewing with a row, hindwing with a half 
row ol small antemarginal spots. — lygdamis susp. nov. is a larger form from New Mecklenburg, with purer lygdamh. 
white and more prominent spots on the upperside and larger and lighter blue ones on the underside of both wings. 
E. decipiens Btlr. is a species nearly allied to illudens with the sexual stripe much longer, broader decisions. 
and distally not ovally prolonged. Apex of the forewing more pointed, hindwing with only two short rows 
of antemarginal dots. Described from New Lauenburg, in my collection from Herbertshohe. 
E. hemera spec. nov. (86a), similar to cerberus Btlr., with the wings of the same shape; inner margin hemera. 
of the forewing strongly convex; cf above dark brown, ? somewhat lighter, cd above without, ? with a few 
unimportant small submarginal spots. Sexual stripe of the cdcd narrow, short, in some examples nearly sup¬ 
pressed; dots on the under surface as in illudens. Island of Mafor or Mefor in Geelvink Bay. — nesis subsp. nesis. 
nov. is a darker and much smaller race, which differs from liemera beneath in having a more complete row 
of violet submarginal dots. Dammer. 
E. irene spec. nov. (86 c), with more rounded wings, of larger size than the preceding (usually about irene. 
equal to anthracina Btlr. from Amboina), has like anthracina and deione Westiv. a very long broad sexual stripe 
on the forewing. Ground-colour dark coffee-brown, ? little lighter, both sexes wihout a trace of dots on the 
upperside. Under surface light coffee-brown with a broad yellowish patch in the median part of the hindwing, 
such as occurs also in deheeri Boh. and radica Fruhst. Forewing with two, hindwing with five transcellular 
patches surrounding the cell-spot. Forewing in the cf with a violet stripe between the median veins, distally 
curved somewhat downwards, ? with the customary submedian streak. Fergusson and Kiriwina. 
E. vitella Montr. and transfixa Montr., from Woodlark Island, possibly approximate to irene , but I have 
never seen these forms. 1 
E. melanopa, an exclusively Papuan species, is distributed in collections under the newer name netscheri 
Snell. — melanopa Bob., described from Sekar, on the southern arm of West Dutch New Guinea, is the 
darkest branch-race known. Upper surface without markings, forewing dark coffee-brown with the margins 
l but little lighter, hindwing only dark brown basally and in the cell, distally yellowish brown. Under surface 
lighter, somewhat tan-coloured. Dots of the underside as in Irene. Doherty took the form at Kapaur, Kuhn 
also in Etna Bay. In the Kayu-Meru Bay examples occur with large white subapical patches on the under 
surface, which are present on the forewing as small spots shaded with grey-brown (= albifrons form, nov., 
86 b). Together with it occur in the same district d'd' with white patch on the hindwing above and the 
entire anal third of the hindwing beneath tinged with grey-white (= delicia form, nor., 86 b). — At the Humboldt 
Bay and especially at Dorey in Geelvink Bay on the northern coast of Dutch New Guinea occurs netscheri 
Snell., with the upper surface uniform light brown, of which a good figure was given in the Tijdschrift voor 
Entomologie 1889. - juiica subsp. nov. (86 b) has a rather monotonous upper surface, the distal margin only 
in the ?? appreciably lighter, but the under surface is always more or less inclined to the (Mfcm-pattern. 
Waigeu, Salawatti. — Finally, parca subsp. nov. inhabits German New-Guinea, but is very rare. Distal margin 
of the underside of both wings reddish brown, the upper surface darker than in the forms already mentioned. 
According to Hagen parca occurs from December to April at the Astrolabe Bay. — cissia subsp. nov. is before 
me from Misol; above and beneath characterized by a light grey-brown, sharply defined margin on both wings 
and with large violet-white discal patches on the under surface; the ?? bear subapical patches on the underside, 
thus somewhat resembling albifrons. Flies in January. 
oJLciSUS, Hi .<• ■ 
t _With E. duponcheli begins a small group of species which is distributed from the Moluccas to the 
Solomons and is distinguished by a long, broad silky stripe on the forewing, which particularly in the eastern 
species reaches the maximum of development among all the Euploeids. The separate races and species are 
all to be met with in great abundance in woods at the sea-coast. — anthracina Btlr. Habitus about as in 
deione Westiv. Ground-colour black-brown with the margins slightly lighter; ? above nearly always with 
indistinct grey-white submarginal spots (Amboina) or these distinctly shining through on both wings (Ceram). 
The species is often confused with climena, but the intramedian patches of the forewing and the submarginal 
dots of the hindwing are all more pronounced. Amboina . Saparoea. — lykoatis subsp. nov. has the ground¬ 
colour lighter brown throughout than anthracina, the forewing of the ??, but especially the hindwing, has the 
white dots better developed, and the submarginal patches of the under surface are likewise more prominent 
than in Amboina examples. East Ceram, very common. - duponcheli Bdr. on the other hand is a consi¬ 
derably darkened race; ¥ smaller than in anthracina and without a trace of transparent submarginal dots. 
melanopa. 
albifrons. 
delicia. 
netscheri. 
juiica. 
parca. 
cissia. 
anthracina. 
lykoatis. 
duponcheli. 
