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ERYCINIDIA; PIERIDQPSIS. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
pulchru . A. pulchra Math. (93 f), described, from Treasury Island, bears above a very broad black distal border 
on the forewing, which is only at the veins slightly relieved with yellow-brown and even there densely powdered 
uleva . with blackish. Hindwing uniform black. uleva 8 m ., judging from the figure, is a relatively large form with, 
strongly darkened upper surface, the base of which is dark red-brown and distally less sharply bounded by the 
black distal border. Linder surface reddish grey, the red-brown transcellular band narrower than in pulchra,. 
adustata . From the island of Ulava, discovered by Woodford. — adustata subsp. nov. is probably the most melanotic 
extreme of pulchra, known, found by Meek on Cboiseul, one of the German Solomon Islands. The black marginal 
band covers almost the whole upper surface of the wings, only leaving a narrow dark smoke-brown basal area. 
argentaria . Hindwing also in the $ almost entirely black, under surface whitish grey. Type in the Tring Museum. — ar- 
ger.faria subsp. nov. from Isabel, in the German Solomons, bears already an extended light ochre-yellow basal 
area on both wings, but is beneath dusted with, darker grey than adustata, and the submarginal band of the fore- 
dcnyu . wing and the yellow patches of the hindwing are lighter. Type in the Tring Museum. — denya subsp. nov. was 
discovered by Ribbe on the Shortlands Islands; it differs from argentaria, in the lighter brown basal area of the 
vella. forewing, darker grey dusting and paler yellow bands on the under surface. — vella subsp. nov. is the lightest 
extreme of the species, the dark leather-brown basal area considerably widened, filling up the whole cell, under 
surface essentially different, basal region on the forewing dark ochre-yellow instead of grey, hindwing lighter. 
The metallic decoration of the hindwing blue instead of silvery, both the black and the yellow spotting conside¬ 
rably reduced. Flies in February, Vella-Lavella, taken by Meek. Type in the Tring Museum. — The further 
rubianensis . the locality lies towards the east, the lighter become the forms, thus rubianensis Sm . considerably surpasses 
vella in the extent and lightness of the yellowish basal area of the forewing, whilst the underside of the lxind- 
rendova . wing is coloured similarly to pulchra , that of the forewing like vella. Rubiana. —- rendova subsp. nov. inhabits 
Rendova and shows a broader black distal margin on the hind.wing above, darker and more yellowish grey 
guizona . proximal half of the hindwing beneath. Flies in February. — guizona .subsp. nov. is above more reddish and 
still more broadly suffused with yellow than rendova, and rubianensis, the median part of the forewing beneath 
darker red-brown, the hindwing basally whitish, grey. Island of Guizo, November. Type in the Tring Museum. 
ugiensis. A. ugiensis Math., of which the specific rank still appears doubtful, differs from pulchra in the absence 
of the black margining of the hindwing above and of the yellow and the proximal silver band on the forewing 
yanuta. beneath. Island of Ugi, discovered by its author. — yanuta subsp. nov. is the form from the eastern British 
Solomon Island San Ghristoval, collected there in April by Meek. Under surface of the forewing reddish ochre- 
yellow. Hindwing grey-yellow with reddish yellorv discal band. The anal silvery spot of the hindwing distally 
only light yellow, but not bordered with black as in all the pulchra- races, all the brown stripes and patches 
of pulchra light yellow. 
7. Genus: B^ryc*im<iia R. & J. 
Neuration according to the authors of the genus similar to that of Hypocysta. The upper median some¬ 
what nearer to the lower radial than to the second median. Hindwing produced into a long lobe, somewhat 
as in Dodona and the South American Corades. Also approaching Lamprolenis in the shape of the hindwing. 
Eyes naked. Only 8<S of one species known as yet, but further allies may be looked for from German and Dutch 
New Guinea. 
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gracilis. E. gracilis R. <k ,/. (99 c), a noteworthy species, recalling in the shape of the wings Indian Erycinids 
and even the South American Corades, whilst the markings of the under surface are somewhat suggestive of 
Lethe ( Zophoessa ). Under surface dark brown with violet-grey patches. On the cell of the forewing a short, 
broad yellowish white band, further a yellowish submarginal stripe, which traverses the entire wing. Apex 
with three small round ocelli. Hindwing with a dentate blackish subbasal line, a somewhat straighter median 
band and six yellowish-black-pupilled ocelli. British New Guinea, known from altitudes of 2000 m. November 
to February. 
8. Genus: Piea*id4»g»sis R. & J. 
We are indebted also to the pleading entomologists of Europe 14 for our knowledge of this noteworthy 
genus, which through their kindness is here figured for the first time. Wings obtuse, the structure in general 
analogous to that of Hypocysta, but the cell of both wings essentially shorter. Upper discocellular of the fore¬ 
wing angled, lower radial arising below this angle. Hindwing triangular, the second median ending in a broad 
lobe, costal margin long. Eyes naked. Easy to distinguish from Erycinidia, by the abbreviated cell of the hind- 
wing, otherwise very near to it. 
virgo. P. virgo R. & J. (99 b). Under surface dark olive-brown. Forewing white to the middle of the cell, 
with a broad white median band and four small, white-pupilled eye-spots, which are bordered on both sides 
by a grey line. $ beneath darker than the the white basal part reduced to a narrow stripe along the sub- 
median. Hindwing of the 8 with two bands, which form a Y, and a row of 5 ocelli, of which only the white 
