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lighter, but ? with violet-white extended median area. Fergusson, Kiriwana. — hippias Misk., from Cape hippias. 
York, is only known to me from its author’s description. Upper surface rust-brown with pale brown disc, 
which becomes yellowish white distally. Hindwing with a very large oval ochre-brown cell-spot, which 
distally somewhat approaches the costal margin. 
E. imitata Btlr., without more exact locality, was discovered on the cruise of the “Curasao”, according imitata. 
to Butler from the Solomons. 
E. assimilata is a species which occurs exclusively on the Key Islands and some of the small south¬ 
easterly Moluccas. It is noticeable at once for an extended light patch, particularly beneath, which finds 
its analogy in eurypon Hew., as well as in Calliploea hopfferi Fldr. from the same groups of islands. Valve 
approaching that of erimci Frulist., from New Guinea, but somewhat longer, uniformly narrower. - bandaensis bandaensis. 
Fruhst. (85b) is not rare on Banda, where it occurs in two principal forms: the dark ?-f. bandaensis, which 
has but little light scaling above, with the white submarginal spots of the hindwing distinctly showing through 
from the underside, which are placed in a pale brown area, inclining to whitish, particularly beneath; and 
nepotina Frulist. (85 b) with broad and pure white marginal area on the hindwing in both sexes, nepotina nepotina. 
always bears beneath only three large, tear-shaped transcellular patches instead of a complete row of sub¬ 
marginal dots. — nepos Rob., from Goram, shows a still more sharply defined and broader white distal border nepos. 
on the hindwing and whitish-scaled apical part of the forewing. I have before me only one c? with three 
relatively small discal patches on the hindwing beneath. assimilata Fldr. (? = fraterna Fldr.) is the assimilalu. 
albinotic extreme of the collective species. Forewing with the white submarginal bands as broad as nepotina 
shows them on the hindwing only. Under surface of the hindwing with large white tear-spots. Felder er¬ 
roneously described the form from Aru, where according to Ribbe it does not occur and has no representative. 
Kuhn has discovered the larva on Key; it is of black ground-colour, each segment with several thin yellowish 
stripes. Head, abdomen and legs entirely black. The four pairs of tentacles reddish with black tips. Pupa metallic 
green. — frigida Btlr. is according to the description allied to bandaensis; it is said to come from North Ceram, frigida. 
E. treitschkei inhabits the Papuan region, extends eastwards to the Solomons and even to the Fiji Islands, 
but does not seem to reach westwards beyond the neighbourhood of Geelvink Bay, being absent even in 
Waigeu. On the main island of New Guinea the butterfly is probably of pretty general occurrence; sexual 
dimorphism not known from there; like F. nemertes and Calliploea pumila , however, the species is inclined 
to local variation, even Vulcan Island, only 10—12 km. from New Guinea, has a highly specialized branch 
race. Wahnes has discovered the larva; according to a figure for which we are indebted to C. Ribbe, the 
ground-colour is yellow-brown, with black lateral stripe, head black, four pairs of filiform appendages yellowish. 
Pupa as in other species metallic golden. Larva lives in numbers, but not gregariously, on a creeping-plant 
which covers the sandy sea-shore. — olivacea Sm. (81b) occurs in the whole of Dutch and German New olivacea. 
Guinea and varies slightly in that the d'd' sometimes bear above no white or greenish grey stripes 
at all, nor any cell-patches (= unicolor Hag .); there are all transitions to the form figured with 5 discal unicolor. 
splashes, to which are sometimes added one or two white subapical patches on the forewing. In the ?, which 
is lighter than the cf, with metallic green-yellow reflection, similar variations are repeated, only there occur, 
especially at Finschhafen, examples with whitish powdering in the apical part of the cell of the forewing and 
only whitish intramedian diffuse stripes (= f. pulverulenta form. nov.). Flies according to Hagen from pulvemlenta 
September to December, and again in April. — aebutia subsp. nov. is a darger race from Jobi. Ground-colour aebulia. 
green instead of black, with steely blue gloss, ? but little lighter, the discal patches blue-white. Under 
surface extremely sparsely dotted, cf above without Salpinx :-stripe. — eugenia subsp. nov. (84a) is the albinotic eugenia. 
extreme of the. preceding. Wings light sea-green with white subapical patches of the size of lentils on the 
forewing and circumc ellular spots of the same colour on the hindwing. Cell of the forewing with pulverulenta- 
pattern, which is absent beneath. Vulcan Island, discovered by Dr. Eugen Werner. — Ursula Btlr. (80b) Ursula. 
differs from eugenia chiefly in that the anal postdiscal white spots are more extended, but the cell of the 
hindwing encloses no white dot before the apex, which, however, is again present beneath. Fergusson. 
In cfcT from Kiriwina all the white intramedian stripes of the hindwing are wanting, so that we have before 
us an unmarked form analogous to unicolor Hag., which probably approaches viridis Btlr., unknown to me in viridis. 
nature and described from a ? from Thursday Island. — decia subsp. nov. is a form from Milne Bay in the decia. 
British territory, with white intraneural splashes on the hindwing arranged as in Ursula, but smaller. - 
treitschkei Bdv., the name-type, described from New Mecklenburg, is somewhat smaller than olivacea on the trcitsclikei. 
forewing with, pulverulenta- pattern, hindwing with large, sharply defined, pure white circumcellular patches. 
erimas Godtfi \= albopunctata Ribbe ) is a handsome aberration with extended light patch on the forewing, er imas. 
which sometimes shows a very large white median area. — biformis Btlr. sometimes darker and predominantly biformis. 
blue-green, with somewhat smaller white dots than the type-form from New Mecklenburg. Described from 
Duke of York Island (New Lauenburg). - coerulescens Pag., which I have not before me, differs in having coerulescens. 
a very conspicuous blue gloss in both sexes and more numerous white spots on the upper surface. $ usually 
