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EUPLOEA. By H. Fruh.storfer. 
and by the more yellowish instead of pure white borders of the wings, which in many examples completely 
shade off into the brown basal colouring. In one ? even the white band of the forewing is suppressed 
except for the vestiges of a subapical light patch. Banda. 
niveata. E. niveata Btlr. combines the characters of the tulliolus- group with those of hopfferi , as the brilliant 
violet glossy forewing has the white markings somewhat more restricted than in tulliolus , but the hindwing has 
the white submarginal bands almost as broad as hopfferi. Under surface altogether as in tulliolus, only with 
extraordinarily broad, pure white submarginal area on the hindwing composed of quadrate spots. Queens¬ 
land, apparently rather rare. 
darchia. E. darchia Mac-L. (= priapus Btlr.) is very rare in the same country and is not known to me in 
nature. Forewing similar to that of tulliolus, but the white spots united into a band which is continued to 
the anal angle. Hindwing with a pure white, compact, moderately broad submarginal band. Forewing with 
brilliant light blue sheen. 
pyres. E. pyres Gochn. is the only Calliploea which shows a larger white, blue- or violet-bordered subanal 
than subapical spot on the forewing and beneath bears postdiscal strigae on both forewing and hindwing, to 
which are further added the usual double row of white antemarginal and submarginal dots on both wings. 
Forewing above with a relatively large costal spot and the hindwing with a complete band of pronounced white 
submarginal patches bordered with violet. Solomon Islands, apparently rare: Bougainville, Munia, Guadalcanal' 
trimeni. E. trimeni Fldr. (= engrannnelli Moore ) is a small, inconspicuous species of the Northern Moluccas, of 
which only two races are as yet known; the name-type was described from Halmaheira and I also have it before 
me from Batjan, collected by Doherty in March. Somewhat like cledonia in shape and colouring, with a slight 
dark gloss on deep brown ground-colour. Forewing with five small submarginal spots bordered with whitish 
violet, of which two or three sometimes reappear on the upperside of the hindwing. ? without any reflection; 
the dots on the forewing more pronounced white. Under surface as above, but deeper brown, with violet 
tinge on the hindwing. Forewing with elongate oval discal spot. Hindwing with five strongly expressed, 
duilin. rounded, violet, submarginal patches. — duilia Fruhst. is a smaller race, which Felder already knew from Obi 
and described together with the preceding. The steel-blue reflection covers an almost black ground, from 
which the submarginal dots stand out brilliantly and predominantly white. Very rare. Obi. 
E. salabanda, likewise described from Halmaheira, with branch races on Obi and Batjan, extends also 
on to the South Moluccas. It is not impossible that it is only an extreme rainy-season form of the 
salabanda. preceding, of which it bears all the characteristics. — salabanda Kirsch differs from trimeni in the bright. 
predominantly blue-black reflection on the upper surface of the wings, which mostly shows only a light 
parallelis. violet subapical dot; Halmaheira. — parallelis Fruhst. is its representative on Batjan, with a row of three to 
five light violet submarginal spots; ? in contrast to that of trimeni with distinct steel-blue gloss above. 
Taken by Doherty in March 1892 together with both sexes of trimeni , also received by me from the month 
obiana. of August from another collector. obiana Fruhst. is a very dark form, mostly without subapical spots, but 
occasionally also with two to three small ones, light blue, with white centres; ? certainly very rare, still 
cledonia. unknown. Ohi. — cledonia Fruhst. (83c) is the most distinct geographical branch; cf dark, 2 light brown; 
c? with very slight steely gloss, 2 without any. Dots on the under surface considerably more pronounced than 
in salabanda and obiana. Common in East Ceram; I have also before me a cd (bought in Paris) with the 
label Amboina. Earlier authors did not know the species from any of the Southern Moluccas, so that 
it. must be very local. 
E. pumila is the oldest name for a species distributed over the whole Papuan region, and affording 
one of the most striking examples of individual variability, being indeed one of the most variable of all 
butterflies. The species has consequently received a series of names, which, however, do not illustrate 
sufficiently its tendency to polymorphism. Even the six figures in this work do not represent all the 
principal types of colour-modification. Valve similar to that of Salpinx , strongly narrowed, with indistinctly 
pumila. defined point. — pumila Btlr. (85 d) is a local form of north-western Dutch New Guinea. Ground-colour 
dark brown with some small whitish submarginal spots on both wings and a subapical double spot of light 
violet-colour on the forewing. The under surface, as in all the following races and forms, has no dismal 
violet spot, which distinguishes the members of the trimeni-mazares-hyems group. Forewing, however, as a 
lucinda. rule with a complete row of admarginal dots. — lucinda Sm. (82 e) designates a form with the upper 
surface of both wings predominantly smoky brown, in which the cdcf, but especially the 22, gradually shade 
into a violet-white in the discal area. We have figured the lightest extreme, with silky gloss all over, 
opalescent with whitish violet reflection. The under surface is, however, not so light, but in the basal 
