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DISCOPHORA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
sondaica. with black. - — sondaica Bsd. (106 a 106 b $) inhabits Java and Bali, but is nowhere frequent. The co¬ 
pulative organs differ from those of the continental zal (indica) in the more slender, more strongly curvate 
valve. The $$ bear the usual three rows of spots and may, as a rule, be distinguished form tullia indica 
$$ by the blue-white subapical bar on the forewings being further developed and remaining entire as far as the 
anterior median. The contiguous row of spots consists of large compact lunules; the lowest spots on all 
three rows are usually brownish. Like the other two javan Discopkora (necho Fldr. and celinde Stoll.) sondaica 
can be attracted by banana baits. East javan specimens do not appear to vary from those of the western 
symphronia. parts of the island.—The remaining macromalayan tullia races are here united under the name of symphronia 
subsp. nov., type from south-east Borneo; they differ from the javan sister race in the reduced blue spots on the 
despoliata. upper surface of the forewing, and the much darker underside of all wings. The extreme form is despoliata 
Stick, without any blue marking on the upper surface of the <$($. The $ of symphronia conies to me from 
Perak; it is paler on the underside than sondiaca (J(J, but considerably larger, thus forming a natural transi- 
semperi. tion to the northern indian zal (indica). — We have yet to mention semperi Stick. (= semperi Moore nom. 
nud.). Type from Mindanao; very rare; a very beautiful local race, wrongly identified by Semper as D. zal 
Westw. (aberr.), in which the three rows of spots on the forewings are most strongly developed and deepest 
coloured. Semper mentions 2 $<$; Dr. Stattdinger sent to me for comparison 1 <$ and 1 $, erroneously 
labelled zal. The $ agrees with Temper’s figure, the forewing of the $ has no characteristic differences from 
tullia indica ; the proximal row of spots is almost whitish, the other two bluish violet. Hindwing almost uni- 
colorous, with almost obsolete yellowish spots in three rows. 
D. deo forms a kind of connecting link between the forms of the celinde and tullia groups. The andro- 
conial spot on the upper side of the hindwings inclines to the anteriorly broadened shape of the former, but the 
deo. uncus has all the characters of the tullia group. Two very rare local forms; deo Nicer. forewing with a broad 
ochre-yellow band on the forewings ending at the lower median and somewhat recalling D. necho dis-Q. Ground 
colour a velvety brown, with slight deep-violet gloss. Forewings with a discal area, longer than broad, 
covered with modified scales. Underside extremely dark brown with patches of red-violet and whitish scales. 
Ocelli small, the posterior with bright, pure white centre. $ not known Avith certainty, probably very like the 
<3 and near continentalis Stgr. $. Only a few known from the northern Shan States, Upper Burma. Flies in 
fruhstorferi. March and April in the driest season. — fruhsforferi Stick, from Tonkin, where I found the species at Chiem- 
Hoa in August and September. $ distinguished from deo deo by the red-brown band on the forewing being 
broken up below the middle median into loosely connected double wedge-shaped spots, as occurs in forms of 
the necho group. In one of the four specimens in my possession the band is still almost continuous, the anterior 
double spot only marked by a dark spot at the point of separation, but the two following wedge-spots distinctly 
separated. Costa and border of the fore wing not yellowish, as in the type form, but dark olive brown, 
the bordering of the hindwing is also entirely uniform in tone, without a trace of markings. Apex of foiwing 
not so pointed as in the figure of deo. The costal ocellus on the hindwing is AVell developed beneath and dis¬ 
tinctly white centred. Anal ocellus imperfectly developed, but with very large white centre, fruhstorfer has 
a general resemblance to the illustration of lepida (105 c), only that the spots on thef ore wings are deep 
ochre-yellow with rufescent edges, instead of whitish violet. Uncus stoutly built, valve longer, of more 
even breadth but more slender, with two small dorsal processes and apically roundish obtuse pointed. Very 
rare, I only took 4 
D. simplex a strictly localized race of North Borneo, from whence it appears to have spread to Palawan, 
and one of those interesting species which inhabit the Philippines as well as North Borneo, yet have not 
yet arrived in the southern parts of the Island of Borneo. Copulative organs in the <$ much as in the pro¬ 
ceeding species, uncus and uncus anticus rather shorter, harpe very differently shaped, distallv incurved, rounded 
simplex, and pointed, not unlike the head of a bird or a horse’s leg; Stichel compared it to a bill-hook. — simplex 
Stgr. (106 c) bears an almost continuous violet-blue band on the forewings, in Avhich are sometimes a few pro¬ 
ximal darker markings, indistinctly marking off Avedge shaped portions of the band. The $ is like that of 
the tullia group. It has a bluish white ultracellular band, next to which are 3 more, almost confluent, large sub¬ 
marginal spots, and in the discal part a i'oav of three smaller spots starting from the band. Hindwing with 2 
roAVs of obsolete brownish spots. Only one $ is known, the band is broader, more curved in the upper part 
amethys- and Avith richer white tone. Palawan Island. — amethystina Stick, from the Kina-Balu district in North Borneo. 
Only one the type of this is known and is in coll. Fruhstorfer (Geneva), amethystina is a remarkable local 
form, bordering on specific rank. The copulation organs stand in about the same relationship to simplex , as 
