DISCOPHORA. By H. Frith storfer. 
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from the dis in the narrower, and also darker, blue violet bands on the forewings, and the $, figured by 
Distant (Rhop. Mai. pi. 5, fig. 11) as celinde has a more sharply defined, anteriorly narrowed, ochre-yellow 
scarf on the forewings. <$<$ darker beneath than the dis the $ with larger ocelli and brighter striation.; 
Perak, apparently uncommon. — cheops Fldr. is here applied to specimens from northern Borneo, which stand cheap*. 
close to dis ; but a practiced eye will at once detect, that the inner spots on the forewing are cuneiform, proxi- 
mally more pointed, and also more evenly shaped among themselves. The $ can be readily separated by the 
always distinct three-fold series of submarginal spots on the upper side of the hindwing, which extend to the 
upper median. - — orbicularia Stish. is an ocellar aberration, with 2—3 small more or less complete ocelli in the orbicular in. 
median zone of the hindwings. -— helvidius subsp. nov. replaces cheops in south-east Borneo and on Natuna Is- helvidius. 
land. <$ with larger, more quadrate submarginal markings, and the blue median spots on the forewing almost 
twice as broad and lighter. $ with decidedly narrower ochre oblique band on the forewings and less distinct 
median spots on the hindwings. — With odora Fruhst. (106 a, misprinted odorata) commences a small group odor a. 
of geographical races, remarkably approaching celinde Stoll, in the narrowed band on the forewings of the 
which is more broken up into separate spots. $ known by the much reduced blue spotting of the forewing; 
$ in addition to the isolated ochre markings, also smaller and the wings more rounded. The subapical bar 
on the fore wings, which in some cases touches the exterior corner of the cell, divides into two rows of spots 
below the upper median, the proximal row consisting of three smaller roundish spots, the discal of three larger 
wedges. Close to the terminal margin there are the usual 4—5 submarginal spots. The border of the hind¬ 
wing is lighter, with a complete submarginal and two incomplete discal series of spots. Costa of the hindwing 
quite pale from the middle to the apex. Palawan Island, rather scarce, flies in January. — - erasinius subsp. crasbnus. 
nov., the type of which is in the Staudinger collection in Berlin, is a distinct island form. $ nearest to cheops 
from North Borneo, but smaller and with rather paler subapical bar. $ with a lighter yellow-brown band on the 
forewings darker on the edges, very narrow and distally bounded by small brown-yellow lunules. Jolo Island. 
— mindorana subsp. nov. received from Herr Bang-Haas with this ‘'in litteris” name, has the narrowest subapical mindorana. 
bar in the whole series of forms; $ very similar to odora but with lighter and rather more reddish tinged 
markings on the forewing. Mindoro Island. 
D. philippina Fruhst. (= menetho Semp., philippina Moore nom. nud.) can be at once separated from philippina. 
the forms of the necho series by the double row of blue spots on the forewing, placed vertically as in tullia 
(106 c), of which the outer are very small, the inner wedge shaped and mearly twice as large. Transcellular 
spots are wanting. Valve decidedly more simple, more slender and more delicate than in neclio and the other 
species hitherto mentioned. This species, vdiose specific rank is confirmed by the formation of the genitalia, 
varies but little, and the specimens collected by Doherty on Bazilan (coll. Frithstorfer) cannot be separa¬ 
ted from the Mindanao insects. Sometimes there are small ultracellular streaks on the hindwings, the anal ocelli 
on the underside are occasionally wanting, and replaced by a white dot, but in some cases there is a small accessory 
ocellus near the anal eye-spot. 
D. ogina Godt. is a well-defined species, showing a certain similarity to Adolias dirtea F. in the distribu- ogina. 
tion of the colours, and, analogous to it, is characterized by a dark violet-blue band on the upper surface of the 
hindwings in the 3$, which (judging from Semper’s figure) disappears in the $. Yet the $ can also be distin¬ 
guished from all its allies by a row of three almost white submarginal marks, a narrow white-violet scarf passing 
across the whole wing, and another series of three median dots, which may be white or yellowish. The under¬ 
side in both sexes bears an apical and an anal ocellus, as well as two others between the lower radial and the 
and the middle median on the hindwing. —- Staudinger separated a $ form in his collection from ogina, and it 
is named melindaFk/r. ; it is possibly a dry season form, but having no further material with which to compare melindu. 
it, I am unable to decide about it. Very rare; Semper only knew of 8 specimens from Luzon and Polillo. The 
copulative organs are easily distinguished from those of philippina Fruhst. by the knife-edged dorsal emargi- 
nation of the apex of the valve. 
D. bambusae inhabits the celebean subregion, where it is separated into 3 not very sharply demarcated 
local forms. The species can be easily recognized by a series of inconspicuous blue dots of equal size on the forewing 
of the (JcJ, and a chain of five ocelli on the underside of the hindwing. Copulative organs of distinguished 
by the S-shaped uncus anticus, and a long scaphium, distally roundly curved upwards like a hook. The harpe 
is proximally broadly spatulate, narrowing gradually and terminating in a flat button. — bambusae Fldr. bambusic. 
(106 b) described from specimens collected by Lorquin, with the erroneous locality of “Halmaheira”, lives 
in northern Celebes. I took the butterfly at banana baits near the Bay of Toli-Toli in November-Decem- 
ber. — celebensis Floll. determined from material in my collection, is to be separated from the North-Celebes celebensis. 
