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widely distributed in collections. ? with much smaller light blue-violet discal spot, not distally incised, on 
the forewing, which in Staudinger’s name-typical form bears no submarginal patches. But there occur very 
rarely at Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen cdcf with the same shaped, but considerably lighter median area of the 
forewing, distally united with the submarginal spots (praestabilis form. nov.). Normal ?? of duerrsteini show praeslabili* 
a broad white submarginal area on the hindwing, of which Hagen wrote in 1897 that this whitening of the 
hindwing is the principal character of the Astrolabe race, the Finschhafen ?? always remaining brown, which 
on the other hand is never the case in any variety of the Astrolabe ??. It is singular that Honrath was misled 
in 1892 into designating as hansimanni-% vera a ? identical with duerrsteini on the forewing, but which has no 
white marginal area on the hindwing. I think this rare ¥-form, figured by Honrath (Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. 1892, pi. ^ 
XV f. 6), may be introduced as honrathi form. nov. StAimiNGER describes as $-form nera a likewise rare n 
individual aberration (Iris 1895, pi. IV f. 3) with light blue cell, bordered with dark blue, on the forewing. 
Finally, I give the name of ¥-form erynia form. nov. to an aberration with cf-like colouring. Forewing evenly eryrna. 
dark blue with bright reflection and small light bine cell-spot, five discal strigae and six submarginal patches. 
Hindwing dark brown with lighter marginal area and two small median streaks. Larva of all forms according to 
Wahnes identical: according to a figure of Ribbe’s grey-white, irrorated with black, with only two pairs of 
flesh-coloured tentacles on the second and third segments. The eggs produce larvae in from 5 to 8 days; 
but they almost immediately crawl down from the food-plant and conceal themselves. In the adult stage the 
larva is sluggish and lives alone, mostly hidden among the food-plant, a small tree. Pupa at first yellow, 
after a few days acquiring a metallical gloss, so that it looks like glass which is gilded inside. — sacer- sacerdotalis 
dotalis subsp. nov. inhabits Jobi; there occur ¥¥ which are marked like the cf and show a large blue spot 
before the discocellular of the forewing, with seven to eight discal stripes, followed by distinct antemarginal 
patches. A ? in coll Oberthur has the cell of the forewing light grey-brown beneath. — mesocala V oil. mesocala. 
(79 b) is the branch inhabiting Waigeu, which, judging from the material in my collection and a few examples 
from coll. Oberthur which Staudinger has minutely described (Iris 1895, p. 161—164), only varies very 
slightly, cf approaching that of callithoe, but, as far as is known, exclusively with biplagiata- pattern and three 
long and very broad blue patches beyond and above the cell of the forewing. ¥ as figured, the white patch 
in the cell varying in extent, sometimes reaching to the base, sometimes only to the middle of the wing. 
eurykleia subsp. nov. approaches mesocala, particularly in the ¥, but the blue discal spots of the hind- eurykleia. 
wing are smaller than in the Waigeu race, cf with broad confluent double spot before the discocellular of 
the forewing and very broad blue area beyond the cell. But in the cell itself the fine blue powdering, which 
is always present in mesocala , extending almost to the base, is absent. Fergusson Island. — euthoe Fldr. euthoe. 
is a distinct island form; cf very near that of callithoe , but without distinct patch before the apex of the cell 
and with narrower and darker blue streaks beyond the cell of the forewing than mesocala and eurykleia. Aru 
Islands, very rare. — On the Key Islands occurs a branch-race allied to euthoe , which 1 do not know in nature. 
E. eucala Stgr. is a very interesting species from the Micromalayan region, hitherto only known from eucala. 
Sumbawa, but pretty certainly to be expected also from Sumba and Flores, cf similar to callithoe , but with 
light brown base to the forewing, thus somewhat recalling semicirculus Btlr. and irrna Fruhst., with a rounded 
cellular spot and a row of large, but isolated light-blue transcellular spots on the forewing. Submarginal 
patches, especially the upper ones, dotted with white. ¥ predominantly brown, forewing only suffused with 
blue in the distal part. Forewing with three to five whitish, hindwing with seven blue discal patches: 
cell-dot smaller than above. A cf in my collection shows the anal pencils formed as in Salpinx, of dark 
yellow-brown colour, which were probably light yellow in the living insect. 
Group Salpinx Hbn. 1816. 
(Selinda, Hirdapa, Pademma, Nacamsa, Isamia, Tirana, Anadara, Daniseppa, Satangu and Saphara, Moore 1883.) 
Larva closely approaching that of Trepsichrois, with four pairs of filiform appendages. Pupa green, with metallic 
gloss, but the transformations of only two species ( assimilata Fldr. from Key and treitschkei Bdv. from New Guinea) are 
known, an almost incredible fact in view of the commonness of the species. Cell of the forewing mostly without recurrent 
vein. Upper discocellular always distinct; cell of the hindwing relatively short. Forewing with one or two androconia- 
streaks, hindwing with speculum. Anal pencils with double brush of hairs, which in one species (rhadamanthus) is grey, 
otherwise bright light yellow like the stylus. The separate species are almost more inclined to sexual and local variability 
than even those of the preceding group and their delimitation is very difficult. 
Valve very similar to that of Crastia, distally shaped like the beak of a bird, especially a parrot’s, with the apex 
sometimes more rounded, sometimes sharper (nemertes). In leucostictos a pad-like swelling of the inner part of the valve 
is noticeable and in cegyptus from Bawean there is a strongly chitinized, hand-like thickening of the clasper, somewhat 
recalling the shape found in Hestia. 
