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guished by the duller brown ground-colour, which is lighter in the distal part, especially on the hindwing, 
the almost imperceptible blue reflection, in the ? in fact no longer present at all, the pale violet, diffuse 
marginal patches, in the cd without white centres, and particularly beneath by the absence of all the white 
subapical bands or spots so distinct in tulliolus and doryca. Most examples bear only a blue-white cell-spot 
on the forewing and some submarginal splashes on the hindwing. In the ? the submarginal spots of the 
forewing are inappreciably suffused with white and bear distallv a small patch extending lo the terminal margin. 
E. hyems, decorated on both wings with brilliant white bands, is one of the most beautiful species 
and in common with Crastia orope Bdv. and Stictoploea jacobseni Bob. is a characteristic butterfly of Micro- 
malayana, where it replaces E. mazares Moore, beginning to occur where the most easterly forms of mazares 
reach the limit of their range with sumbana Boh. — wetterensis Fruhst. (83 d) has a dark violet reflection on a 
dark brown ground, which on the hindwing also covers the white submarginal band of the cdcd as a light 
violet gloss. Underside as above, only with a row of very strong white submarginal dots, which adorn the 
butterfly together with the pure white, broad, subapical and submarginal spots and are so easily distinguished 
from allied forms of the mazares- series. Wetter, not rare. — hyems Btlr., described from Timor, is some¬ 
what larger, the ground-colour lighter and the white bands even more strongly expressed than in wetterensis. 
Only Butler’s type in the British Museum is known to me. — liza Fruhst. (82 d) inhabits Babber and on 
the underside of both wings is dark brown with less violet reflection than wetterensis, yellowish white band 
on the forewing and a row of more extended submarginal patches on the hindwing which are rather quadrate 
than rounded, this being especially noticeable in the ??, the submarginal part of which in wetterensis is as a 
rule entirely without markings. — catilina Fruhst. (80 d), from Dammer, has the violet reflection on the 
forewing as bright as in hyems and the white bands even broader. — leaina Fruhst. (85 d) is distinguished 
by the very distinct violet bordering of the white subapical bands of the forewing, the white area of the 
hindwing is extended to the distal margin, of which only a narrow stripe remains brown-black. Kisser. — 
aga Fruhst. (83 d) has the white spots on the forewing almost twice as broad and a still more extended 
pure white marginal area on the hindwing, in which beneath even the small brown intraneural spots are 
paler and begin to disappear. Letti, taken by W. Doherty in July 1892. — kuehniana Fruhst. (85 d). which 
is almost entitled to specific rank, shows diffuse elongate submarginal patches, proximally dusted with light 
violet and in the central part separated by broad black vein-stripes. Hindwing without sharply defined white 
band, but with whitish distal area, which proximally shades off into the light brown ground-colour. Under 
surface light brown with relatively very small subapical patches on the forewing. Roma, discovered by H. Kuhn 
wetterensis. 
hyems. 
liza. 
catilina. 
leama. 
aga. 
kuehniana. 
E. visenda forms the natural continuation of the preceding species and is distributed over the very 
limited region of the Tenimber and Key Islands. Ground-colour black-brown with lighter brown under 
surface. Submarginal bands of the wings differing in width according to the local race, but always well 
developed. — visenda Btlr. occurs exclusively on Timor-Laut (Larat), above very similar to aga, differing visenda. 
from it in the broader black-brown distal border of the hindwing and the larger subapical yellowish white 
bands of the forewing. ?? of the dry-season form are sometimes light grey-brown on the underside of the 
hindwing and the white area extends to the cell. — ornata Fruhst., from Key, differs from visenda in the ornata. 
narrower, slightly yellowish white bands and spots, especially of the submarginal band of the hindwing, which 
consequently appears removed further proximad. The subanal patches of the forewing smaller than in 
visenda and aga (83 d), ground-colour of the under surface in the ?? also more red-brown than in visenda -??. 
Common everywhere on all the Key Islands and very variable, especially in the size. — Ionia Fruhst. (85 d) Ionia. 
very nearly approaches ornata and differs from it in having the white bands even narrower, particularly on 
the hindwing. Babber. In all the races of visenda there is no trace of a violet tinge on the upperside of the wings. 
E. menamoides Fruhst. (83 d), from Babber, is in certain respects an intermediate form between menamoides. 
hyems, which is represented on Babber by liza Fruhst. (82 d), and visenda Btlr., represented on the same 
island by Ionia Fruhst. (85 d). It has in common with liza the violet tinge, particularly on the forewing, 
with visenda the arrangement of the yellowish white bands, which are nowhere bordered with blue-violet. 
But both cd and ? differ from liza and Ionia in the smaller white subapical spots of the forewing. 
E. hopfferi is one of the most distinct species of the eastern Moluccas and Key Islands, of which so 
far two island races are known, but of which quite a series remains to be discovered in the near future. — 
hopfferi Fldr. is a faithful copy of eurypon Hew. (86 e), from which, however, it is easy the distinguish by hopfferi, 
the projecting, excurved inner margin of the forewing, the Calliploea scent-patch of the hindwing and by 
having the white margining of both wings even broader and deeply incised proximally and hence more 
irregular. Costal area of the hindwing beneath with three large, sometimes confluent white spots, whereby 
the ?? of hopfferi are distinguishable from those of eurypon , in which these costal patches are absent. Key 
Islands. — helia Fruhst. closely approaches hopfferi , but is distinguished by the light brown ground-colour helia. 
