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EUPLOEA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
elevsina. 
hygina. 
mniszechi. 
arona. 
palala. 
vollenhovi. 
anitra. 
aganor. 
dehaani. 
musa. 
minorata. 
hobsoni. 
gaza. 
negleyana. 
E. eleusina is an elegant species of Calliploea- like appearance, pattern of the forewing somewhat as 
baweana (83 cl), but with a long, light violet sexual stripe of the forewing, by which it is chiefly distinguished 
from the very similar E. mazares and proved to belong to Salpinx. — eleusina Or. is one of the best known 
butterflies of Java, where it always flies together with mazares , ascending like the latter to 600—800 m. above 
sea-level and inhabiting the same luxuriant but deserted gardens or the edges of woods, never flying far, 
always hovering over flowers and always easy to catch. The ? differs from that of mazares in always having 
a complete row of whitish violet submarginal spots on the hindwing and in three to lour, sometimes much 
widened subapical patches on the forewing, which are placed beyond the cell. On Bawean, from July to 
September, eleusina is the commonest butterfly of the island. East Javan examples have as a rule lighter 
blue submarginal markings than West. Javan ones. Bali, Kangean. — hygina subsp. nov. is a butterfly not 
rare on Sumbawa and Lombok, distinguished by having the white submarginal spots of the forewing larger 
and always margined with light blue instead of violet. According to Doherty it occurs also on Sumba. - 
mniszechi Flclr. (82 c) is a pronounced Celebes form almost entitled to specilic rank, with the copious violet- 
white ornamentation on the upperside of both wings peculiar to all blue Celeban Euploeids. The most 
beautiful are the examples from the neighbourhood of the waterfall of Maros, with the ¥¥ spotted with almost 
pure white, white instead of blue stripe at the submedian and very large quadrate transcellular patches on 
the forewing. Hindwing with wedge-shaped white cell-spot and two to three cliscal spots (¥-form. arona 
form. nov.). South Celebes. Examples from the east of the island are the purest in colour and much more 
nearly approach the Javan eleusina- type than mniszechi. The submarginal markings are margined with dark 
violet instead of light blue, the submedian stripe obliterated, the discal spots of the hindwing are absent or 
only slight, = palata subsp. nov. Locality: neighbourhood of Tombugo. 
E. vollenhovi is a species which resembles mniszechi and exclusively inhabits the Celeban subregion, 
vollenhovi Flclr., described from Gorontalo in North-East Celebes, differs from mniszechi chiefly in having 
a broad white transcellular band on the forewing, which in both sexes from southern Celebes is occasionally 
indistinct in the upper part, being dusted with blue, cf and ¥ like those figured, with cell-spot on both 
wings and broad pure white median area (which on the figure has by mistake been covered over with blue), 
occur only in Central Celebes in August-September, = anitra subsp. nov. (83 c). They are also beneath easy 
to distinguish from other Celeban vollenhovi by the very large white wedge-spots before the apex of the cell 
on both wings. — aganor subsp. nov. is a satellite-island form with strongly reduced sexual spot and small 
transcellular patches on the forewing. Hindwing in the cfi without cell-patch and only with two discal 
patches; ¥ with very small spot before the discocellular. Bangkai. 
E. dehaani likewise resembles Calliploea in habitus; it somewhat approaches ledereri FI dr. from Malacca 
in size, but differs from this in the absence of the lighter brown patch at the hindmargin of both wings and 
the presence of the Salpinx- spot on the forewing. Moreover, the submarginal row of spots is distinctly dotted 
with white, reaches to the submedian and consists of larger, more wedge-shaped patches. — dehaani Luc.. 
described from Cocliinchina, was found by me in southern Annam; the discal row of blue spots and particularly 
also the rounded patch before the apex of the cell on the forewing smaller than in musa Swinh. (= miraculosa 
Fruhst.), which must be regarded as a characteristic butterfly of Tonkin, where it is nowhere rare from June 
to September at elevations of 300—600 m. above the sea even in the neighbourhood of human habitations. 
minorata Moore (= hainana ILo/l .), unknown to me in nature, was described from Hainan, the fauna of 
which shows such a surprising resemblance to that of Tonkin. According to Holland’s description, minorata 
differs from ledereri, as figured by Felder and Distant, in that the row of submarginal spots of the forewing 
consists of seven instead of six spots and that all these patches are indistinctly dotted with white. The 
chestnut-brown tinge, so characteristic of ledereri, is wanting both at the hindmargin of the forewing and 
on the hindwing. Under surface as in ledereri. 
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E. leucostictos is one of the commonest Euploeas throughout its wide range, which extends from Formosa 
in the north, across Further India southwards to the Nicobars, and to the east embraces the Mariannes. It 
is, however, essentially a Macromalavan species, dominant everywhere on the large Sunda Islands and their 
satellites together with Trepsichrois mulciber. — hobsoni Btlr. is not very common on Formosa, at the extreme 
limit of the range of the collective species, and approaches coelestis Fruhst. (83 b), but is somewhat smaller, 
the submarginal patches are lighter blue and the subapical stripes on the forewing of the ¥¥ distinctly dotted 
with white. All the blue spots, moreover, extraordinarily broad, as is already mentioned by Butler who had 
only one cT for description. There are two forms, the normal, and a rarer one with extended, elongate-pointed 
subcostal strigae, especially in the ¥ (= gaza form. nov.). Locality: Taihanroku, near the southern point of 
the island, July-August. — negleyana Roll. is about intermediate between hobsoni from Formosa and coelestis 
