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EUPLOEA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
atomaria. and are not very rare in both sexes, are atomaria form. nov. Very rare on the other hand is a form ana¬ 
logous to Euploea pumila f. lucinda Sm., with opalescent white colouring, which only betrays its identity 
opalina. w ph er { ma by the narrow, diffuse, brown margins (opalina form, nov.) (85 b as swierstrae-R ). sexguttata 
!,ejgntt«ta. p? r ' u hst. i s the name of a cf-aberration, with six light violet patches on a light brown ground. In the ?? the 
patches are pure white with fine light blue borders, swierstrae Snell, occurs both at Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen 
ou the main island and on Vulcan Island. — At Finschhafen occurs a completely modified race, already 
approaching that of British New Guinea in the dark, almost black-brown ground-colour, two very large 
white subapical patches bordered with light violet and four diffuse submarginal spots on the forewing. Under 
aviena- surface likewise very dark, sometimes with 2 rows of large white subapical spots on the forewing, = aviena 
subsp. nov. Thus the condition of Salpinx in German New Guinea almost agrees with the statements of 
Prof. Neuhauss, who asserted that the fauna changes there with every kilometer. The valve of erima differs 
quintia. from that of nemertes in the slenderer form, the narrower and more abruptly narrowed tip. — quintia subsp. 
nov. (81a). Wings darker throughout, almost black, with rich blue-violet tinge. Examples predominate with 
unusually large white apical and sub marginal patches, which in the ? are strongly expressed on the hind¬ 
wing also, but are never so extended as in erima and herbsti. Together with the typical form, however, there 
occur on the mainland, and rarely on Fergusson Island, a large proportion of cfcf and ?2 with no 
rhodia. patches at all on the forewing (rhodia form, nov.); Milne Bay and Aroa River, in British New Guinea, 
messia. Trobriand and D’Entrecasteaux Islands. — messia subsp. nov., similar to rhodia, only smaller, but above 
oppia. with much larger milk-white discal spots ou the forewing. Woodlark Island. — oppia subsp. nov. is noticeable 
for its dull earth-coloured ground-colouring, the lighter, almost grey-brown distal part of both wings and 
the complete submarginal row of violet dots on the hindwing beneath, which stand out more conspicuously 
perdita. than in the other Papuan races of nemertes. Mefor. — perdita Btlr. approaches quintia and rhodia and is 
distinguished by the uniformly dark brown colouring and distinct white submarginal patches on the under- 
idaguna. side of both wings. The upper surface, on the other hand, is very delicately dotted with white. — ulaguna 
Ribbe is a form in which the Salpinx- spot at the submedian of the forewing is obsolescent, whilst the hind¬ 
wing is characterized by a row of more pronounced submarginal and very small admarginal dots. Bismarck 
polymela. Archipelago, everywhere common. — polymela Godm., the largest of the eastern forms, above somewhat 
lighter brown than perdita, without marginal dots, but with large oval pale violet sexual spot. The ground¬ 
colour varies occasionally from light to darker, the ?? bear above white submarginal patches, which according 
iphianassa. to Ribbe are sometimes continued on the forewing; nowhere rare in the Solomons. — iphianassa Btlr. 
consanguinea Btlr.), described from Aneitum in the New Hebrides, is characterized, according to the ?? 
before me, by white, fairly uniform submarginal patches about the size of a pin’s head, which are continued 
on the hindwing to the middle of the wing, and are reproduced on the under surface, so that the hindwing 
graeffana. also is adorned with submarginal patches to the anal angle. —• graeffiana H.-Schdff., from Vate in the New 
macleayi. Hebrides, is easy to distinguish from the preceding by a light distal border on both wings. — macleayi Fldr. 
again closely approximates to iphianassa, except that it bears somewhat smaller, but complete and purer white 
rows of dots on the upperside of both wings. Fiji Island, apparently rare. 
asyllus. E. asyllus Godm. is a very distinct species, being an interesting parallel form to E. pyres Godm., 
and like this easy to distinguish from its allies in the Solomon Archipelago and New Guinea by strongly 
expressed discal rows of blue-white spots, which traverse both wings in addition to the two submarginal 
rows. cT above scarcely differing from that of polymela, ?, however, with whitish subapical and transcellular 
laurentia. spots, which vary in size. Bougainville, Rubiana. laurentia subsp. nov. is a distinct race, ? above darker 
brown, but on the hindwing with distinc-ly defined pale yellow-brown marginal area. Forewing, except for 
a costal patch, entirely without spots. The submarginal dots of the forewing only extend to the middle of 
the wing. Shortlands Islands, discovered by C. Ribbe. 
E. usipetes is the same shape as nemertes, herbsti and staintoni, so that one is tempted to regard it 
as the nemertes- form from Aru, and where it occurs in British and German New Guinea together with quintia 
and yorima, as one of the many aberrations of those nemertes branch-races. But as the valve shows some 
difference -usipetes is here treated as a species and only a knowledge of the larva can decide conclusively 
as to its validity or otherwise. Valve somewhat broader, but nevertheless more pointed than in nemertes, 
usipetes. erima and fraterna. — usipetes Hew. (85c ?) is known from the Aru Islands, where it occurs together with 
assimilata Fldr., which likewise cannot be united with usipetes as a form on account of the narrow valve, 
this being much broader in assimilata than in nemertes. Together with ?? like the one figured, some also 
albodiscalis. occur according to Ribbe with white instead of brown-yellow disc (albodiscalis form nov.). — On the main 
astrifera island of New Guinea, both in the British and German part, occurs a specially handsome race: astrifera 
subsp. nov. (85 c as usipetes-(f), with six to seven prominent pure white, blue- or violet-bordered submarginal 
spots on the forewing, which are also present in the ??. The discal colouring varies from that of albodiscalis 
to dull yellow-brown, cfd 71 of the darker colour have nsually only two to four small obscure grey-white 
rezia. subapical spots. rezia Kirby is a further geographical form, c? with the disc of the forewing very slightly 
