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area and cell tinged with extremely delicate light brown. Abdomen likewise whitish violet, with brown rings. 
It appears that these very light ?? only occur in Humboldt Bay, where Doherty discovered them in September- 
October 1892. — salpingoides Fruhst., based on examples of light leather-brown ground-colour with two or salpingoides. 
three violet subapical spots on the forewing, is distinguished by a particularly light scent-patch on the hind¬ 
wing, which fills up the whole of the cell and extends beyond it as an additional patch of polished appear¬ 
ance. The central part of this scent-patch is covered with long, dense yellow androconia. Examples with 
no markings at all on the upper surface and light yellow patch on the basal area of both wings have been 
described as melitta Fruhst. ?? with still more extended light patch, which already show traces of a whitish melitta. 
tinge on the upper surface, I have named sublucinda Fruhst. In the neighbourhood of Friedrich-Wilhelms- sublucinda. 
hafen ?? commonly occur which form a transition to lucinda and already bear traces of a milky hyaline tinge 
in the cell of the forewing and between the median veins, anaitis form, nov., a rare aberration, consists of cmaitis. 
?? with small elongate-oval, opaline subapical and submarginal spots on the forewiug and larger submarginal 
dots on the hindwing, which are accompanied by a row of admarginal dots on the underside of the latter. 
But by far the prettiest aberration known consists of cfcf with the cell and costal part of the forewing 
suffused with violet as in Salpinx swierstrce (83 c) (amida form. nov.). All the above mentioned aberrations amida. 
occur in the neighbourhood of Friedrich-Wilhehnshafen in Astrolabe Bay. — In the more easterly Finschhafen 
on the other hand occurs a darker form, which should probably be regarded as a subspecies; this is phokion phokion. 
Fruhst. (83 d), which as a rule shows a deeper black-brown ground-colour, as in the figure. Most c?c? have 
supplementary violet-white submarginal spots, which are continued also on the hindwing as thin dots. All 
the phokion before me bear in addition complete rows of pure white admarginal dots on the underside of 
both wings. — In British New Guinea there is a local race approaching phokion , but of even deeper colour, 
— jamesi Btlr. (80 d), which in contrast to pumila Btlr. and salpingoides Fruhst. appears to be very constant, jamesi. 
at least specimens collected in Milne Bay, in Samarai, on the coast opposite to Yule Island do not vary at 
all. A c? from Fergusson Island has also the same characteristic broad white-violet, subapical bands on the 
forewing as the example figured. - flaminia Fruhst. (83 c) is a larger race from the island of Salawatti flaminia. 
with somewhat more indistinct macular bands on the forewing, but as in British New Guinea small cfcf occur 
which seem to belong to a dry-season form, have the dots small and have been described as infantilis Btlr. infantilis. 
— garcila subsp. nov. is a local race belonging to the most westerly part of Dutch New Guinea, from Sorong, garcila. 
characterized by a pale brown ground-colour, dark steel-blue reflection, very small whitish submarginal patches 
and but little larger light violet subapical spots on the forewing. Under surface of the forewing with larger, 
that of the hindwing with smaller white patches than pumila and jamesi. — stephensi Fldr., from Misol, stephensi. 
according to the single ? before me is a dark brown form with reduced violet apical spots on the forewing, 
three submarginal patches on the hindwing, and no dots on the underside of the forewing. — kirschi Moore, kirschi. 
of which only 1 ? was known until recently, represents pumila on Waigeu. Normal examples of both sexes 
closely aproach pumila', almost all are characterized by the submarginal spots being of equal size and the 
violet subapical spots somewhat larger on the forewing. Between these punctiform spots and the distal margin 
of the forewing a fine violet dusting is noticeable, which in many cfcf 1 , but pax’ticularly in the ??, is sometimes 
broadly diffused, becomes whitish along the veins and on the under surface is visible as a grey tinge (amantia amantia- 
form. nov). There is also a very rare form with unicolorous upper surface, under surface without marginal 
dots and the forewing only ornamented with some small streak-like dots (parvipunctata form. nov). On the ^l^ unc ' 
islands in the Geelvink Bay pumila is represented by a charming form, sisamis Kirsch , described from Ansus sisamis. 
on Jobi and approaching amida Fruhst. from Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, which shows a pale violet tinge in the 
cell and the subapical region of the forewing and in addition is ornamented with four blue sub marginal dots. 
Under surface as in pumila with some subapical dots on the forewing and a double row of white dots on the 
hindwing. — Finally, bismarckiana Fruhst. is the branch from the Bismarck Archipelago, characterized by bismarck- 
the deep brown upper surface, which specially in the ? remains dull throughout, without the least violet or 
steel-blue reflection; forewing in the cf with violet, in the ? with white subapical patches, followed by some 
small, but distinct white submarginal spots. ? beneath with 2 rows of white dots on the hindwing. New 
Pomerania, New Lauenburg and New Mecklenburg. 
In the Celeban subregion, as in the Macromalayan, Calliploea is only represented by one species, but 
this is an even more brilliant one: E. hyacinthus, which far surpasses all the preceding species in the intensive 
blue reflection and is at the same time the only Calliploea with large white discal spot on both wings. Four 
local races are known as yet: mangolina Fruhst. (82c), of which the cfcf only differ in the projecting inner mangolina. 
margin of the forewing; under surface blackish with the margins of the upperside reproduced and with two 
instead of one submarginal row of white patches on the hindwing. Sula Mangoli. — besinensis Fruhst. most besinensis 
nearly approaches mangolina but may be at once distinguished from it by the absence of the broad white 
streaks in the cell of the hindwing above. It has less white dots, the large ultracellular spot in the middle 
of the forewing in particular being always much reduced and the patches placed before and behind it in 
mangolina appearing only as small dots or being altogether suppressed. On the hindwing the submarginal 
row of whitish violet dots which is always distinct in hyacinthus and mangolina is sometimes restricted to only 
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