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other hand an extreme in the poorness of its black markings, more especially the black median lines on the 
forewings disappear entirely in the male. Distant figures (Rhopolocera Malayana) a $ of the wet-season form; 
before me I have one of the wet-season form with purple transverse bands and brownish red undersides; —- 
and as caera form. nov. I should like to designate a very small wetseason form from Siam, with dull yellow caera. 
upperside almost without markings and uniform reddish sandcolored undersides, time of flight January. —- 
lesseta^&sp. nov. is here introduced as a new form from the island of Hainan, from where two <$<$ are before lesseta. 
me, which naturally are allied to the mathila form from Tonkin, uppersides darker yellow than Sikkim speci¬ 
mens with more brilliant undersides than the latter and methila from Tonkin. The central area of the forewings 
considerably increased, on the hindwings almost white, the black intramedian spots proximally bordered with 
yellow, lesseta is probably similar to the specimens mentioned by Walker from Hong-Kong, which are pre¬ 
served as great rarities in the City-Hall-Museum of this town. —- tanaquil subsp. nov. replaces methila on Samatra, tanaquil. 
from where they are only before me from the north east and are there also rare. In the dark color of the upper- 
sides and the distinct black border they resemble anjira Moore. The underside has broad reddish violet shi¬ 
ning median bands. -— moeris subsp. nov. (108 a) designates the well-defined local race from the island of Java *), moeris. 
where it is by far the commonest species of the genus and occurs everywhere from the seacoast up to 7-—900 m. 
d' smaller than mithila, underside brighter, traversed by pale whitish violet shining bands. Two distinct 
seasonal forms can be recognized: the first on the upperside resembles the form caera from Siam; is almost 
without markings and of a very dull yellow color and the d'-like $9 of pale yellow-ochre color; this is oreta oreta. 
form. nov. from East Java and the plains around Batavia and moeris Fruhst. which is the wet-season form and 
inhabits the low hills, d broardly bordered with two black submarginal lines on the forewings; $ colored more 
like oaris $ with brown basal region and pale yellow transverse bands on the uppersideg. — thilina Fruhst. thilina. 
d The distal border of all wings is broader black and the general color darker red-brown, the brown discal bands 
of the forewing-undersides run fairly straight and are connected throughout, not divided up into spots as in 
Sikkim and Java dd- The £ differs from Java $$ in the extremely broad black discal bands and the dark 
coloured basal portion of all wings. The yellow discal bands of the hindwing irndersides are at least twice 
as broard as in the Java- and Tonkin $$. North Borneo. -— laudabilis Fruhst. (108 a) inhabits the island of Pa- laudabilis. 
lawan und comprises the lightest known tyche race, d throughout paler in tone, than our figure. The 
have a sharp angled black median band on the uppersides, which divides the darker yellow or grey-brown basal 
region from the paler distal half. The d'-like $? have a pale yellow border area and the form ^ calcaria calcaria. 
form. nov. a white outer portion, which may be shaded by a greenish yellow or smoky grey transverse band. 
- — psyche Stgr. is a melanotic aberration analogous to latitaenia Fruhst. of methila, with coalesced and broade- psyclie. 
ned black submarginal bands on the hindwings, time of flight January, collected in large numbers by Doherty 
on Palawan. -— domorana subsp. nov. comprises the fine race from the Trabant island Domoran which lies to domorana. 
the eastward of Palawan, which differs from laudabilis in the broarder and more richly black dusted borders 
to all wings. Two forms of the $ are also known, one with pale yellow and one with greenish brown uppersides. 
Type in the SEMPER-collection of the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main. —- zebuna subsp. nov. an zeburux. 
extraordinary large form with uncommonly dark yellow uppersides and the median band of the forewings very 
weakly developed. Island of C dm. •— guiniarensis subsp. nov. comes from the island of Guimara and like al l guiniarensis. 
the forms from this island, which is situated between Negros and Panay diverges from its sister-races in the 
especially pale yellow general tone and the very broard distal and submarginal bands of the uppersides. — 
tyche Fldr. the type name was described from Mindoro, I have in my collection a very nearly related form from tyche. 
Bazilan. tyche owing to its reddish-ochre color forms a transition to the Celebean species C. thule. The black 
borders prominent, the $ pale yellow, only the J-like $ is known to me. Undersides of the Ucf bright, 
those of .the $$ with whitish grey outer portion. According to Semper pale forms occur on Mindoro, Negros, 
Bohol, the Camotes and Leyte and darker resembling thule on Mindanao and Caminguin de Mindanao. 
C. thule Fldr. replaces C. tyche on the Celebes and as is the rule with Celebean races is the largest species thule. 
of the genus. $ upperside dark redbrown, with upright black median bands to the hindwings and very broad 
marginal borders. Markings of the uppersides as in tyche, but the markings are more imposing in agree¬ 
ment with the size, the white median area of the hindwing undersides is proximally sharply divided by a red- 
brown line from the pale orange colored basal zone. Distal zone reddish and traversed by pale violet waves. 
$ whitish grey with brownish yellow shades and bands. Felder has figured a large alpine or wet-season form 
of thule. From North Celebes however I possess a dry-season form of the plains, which only measure 33 mm 
length of forewing instead of 42 mm length of forewing of the typical thule. The specimens are paler redbrown; 
*) Larva discovered by Dr. Piepers, smaller but otherwise almost exactly the same as that of Cethosia penthesilea 
Cr. grey brown with red spots, and the segment bearing the second pair of claspers milky white. Pupa similar L to that of 
the Genus lssoria, on Petunga Longifolia D. C. 
