Publ. 17. Xll 1910. 
EUPLOEA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
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Transcellular spots and the proximal part of the subapical wedge-shaped streaks of the forewing likewise 
dusted with grey-green. Hindwing with a proximal row of very large white submarginal patches, of which 
the upper ones are also margined with blue-green, and a complete series of very distinct admarginal dots. 
Under surface somewhat as in martini but with a further row of greenish-dusted discal patches on the 
forewing. Sangir. - lykeia subsp. nov. is a geographical form from the Talaut Islands with reduced white 
and grey-blue patches on beth wings. 
E. labreyi Moore (= plateni Stgr.) (80 a) is the last of the representatives of viola and leucostictos and 
comes from Sula Mangoli, where Doherty rediscovered it. The ? differs from the cd in the presence of large white 
submarginal patches on the hindwing. As in viola the Salpinx- spot is wanting on the upperside of the forewing. 
E. nemertes was formerly regarded as a local race of leucostictos, which it indeed replaces on the 
Moluccas and in the Papuan region in its widest extent, but from which it is specifically sharply separated, 
apart from the differences in the markings and the absence of the blue reflection on the upperside of both 
wings, by the entirely different shape of the genitalia. Valve narrow, approaching that of Stictoploea, distally 
not shaped like a parrot's but rather a mouse’s head. Apex strongly chit ini zed, obtuse, ventrally curved 
inwards. — nemertes Hbn. (= aglidice Bdv. ?, pasithea Fldr.) is the commonest Euploea of the South 
Moluccas and distributed in collections from Amboina and Saparcea. Moderately variable: it varies as a rule 
only in the size of the light violet Salpinx- spot in cd and ¥ and the extent of the white subapical patches, 
which in specimens especially copiously decorated with white show a fine violet-grey distal powdering. In 
some ?? there is also a complete row of whitish submarginal dots on the hindwing above. In the 
cdcf violet discal stripes sometimes occur on the underside of the forewing, which are always distinctly 
expressed in the ?. - hisme Bdv. (84 a) differs from nemertes only in the darker brown ground-colour, a 
slight violet sheen on the upperside of both wings and on the forewing a more complete row of smaller 
submarginal dots with darker blue margins. On the under surface of the forewing the white dots are more 
pronounced than in nemertes. Bum. — lycoleon subsp. nov. is a light brown form from eastern Ceram with 
only four small white subapical patches on the forewing, the underside of the hindwing margined with light 
brown and extremely delicate, pale violet discal streak on both wings. — bernsteini Fldr., described from 
Halmaheira and the Aru Islands (the latter locality is incorrect), inhabits the North Moluccas and is to be 
met with on Batjan all the year round. Subapical spots on the upperside of the forewing absent. ? as a 
rule only with 2—3 small subapical spots on the hindwing beneath, the cd on the forewing without a trace 
of discal streaks, the ¥ with these only slightly indicated. Both sexes only with one submarginal row of 
violet dots on the hindwing. — A dry-season form of somevhat lighter colouring, with the Salpinx- spot on 
the forewing much reduced, passes in the trade as hismina form. nov. — pseudohisme subsp. nov. is a darkened 
race from Obi, chiefly characterized by the ??. which beneath show very large, rounded, white submarginal 
patches. Moreover, the discal spots on the forewing beneath are enlarged, trysa form. nov. is a ¥-form 
without blue-violet spot at the submedian of the hindwing, thus forming a connecting-link with the purely 
Papuan local races, in whose ¥? the submedian spot is always absent. — staintoni Fldr. (80 c), a very dis¬ 
tinct geographical race, which already exhibits to a great extent the tendency to polymorphism so charac¬ 
teristic of the Papuan region; only in sexual heteromorphism the races of the main island of New Guinea sur¬ 
pass staintoni. Besides the typical form figured there are four directions of variation to be described: eretria 
form, nov., similar to erima (85 a) and gorima (83 c), unicolorous brown with the distal part of both wings 
somewhat paler, punctaria form, nov., similar to quintia (81 a), brown, with six strong white rounded patches 
on the forewing, which in the ?¥ are distally margined by an especially light border, sometimes inclining to 
violet, hortensia form, nov., with broad violet marginal area on the forewing, which is especially prominent 
in the ¥, sometimes becomes entirely white towards the apex and may even extend over the whole forewing 
as in the ¥ figured, impressa form. nov. is the rarest aberration, and may be combined with hortensia 
pattern; it is ornamented with small brown submarginal spots, which look as if sprinkled or printed on to 
the wings. Waigeu, described from 60 examples in coll. Fruhstorfer. — herbsti Bdv. is the subspecies 
which inhabits the whole of Dutch New Guinea and the islands of Geelvink Bay (Salawatti, Misol, Jobi, 
Biak), and of which Grose-Smith has given the name traducta to light brown examples, such as I have 
before me from Sorong, with a slightly bronzy sheen above. Quite small examples without a trace of suba¬ 
pical blue or violet patches are called minima Gr.-Sm., and a very interesting aberration with violet tinge 
near the apex of the cell on the forewing is swierstrae Snell. (83 c). Boisduval himself knew only a form 
analogous to quintia (81 a), which bears on the forewing six pale violet, medium-sized submarginal patches 
on a light brown ground. — The oldest name for the geographical branch from Kaiser-Wilhelmsland is 
erima Fruhst. (85 a), which was first applied to the dominant form from Astrolabe Bay, of more uniform 
yellow-brown colour throughout than examples from Dutch New Guinea. A very common aberration with 
pale yellow-brown ground-colour, which occurs at Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen on the coast up to many 
thousands in company with Calliploea salpingoides, I designate gorima form. nov. (83 c). Examples with thin 
light violet shading before and behind the discocellular of the forewing, which form a transition to swierstrae 
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lykeia. 
labreyi. 
nemertes. 
hisme- 
lycoleon. 
bernsleini. 
hismina. 
pseudohisme 
trysa. 
staintoni. 
eretria. 
punctaria. 
hortensia. 
impressa. 
herbsti. 
traducta. 
minima. 
swierstrae. 
erima. 
gorima. 
