!. 15. V. 1.912. 
HYPO LIMN AS. By It Fruhstorfer. 
55.-5 
At a distance of 4 mm from the margin we find a second row of still larger white dots, arranged in such a 
way that every interspace contains one. Beneath the design of the upper surface is repeated, being augmented 
by two white dots near the base at the costal margin of the forewing. Body and feet are brown, antennae 
black. In late years, since the occupation of the Marshal Islands by Germany, bolina frequently finds its way 
to continental collections, especially from the Ralik group in the western part of the Archipelago. - jaluita 
Fruhst. (119a) is in some respects closely allied to palauensis. cf above frequently with clear while disc of 
larger size than is shown in our figure; beneath uniformly dark red-brown, with blue-violet, instead of white, 
subterminal rows of minute crescents. The white bands on the h. w. are somewhat constricted in the middle 
and very sharply defined. Besides the ?-form represented on pi. 119, we also known 22 without the white disc 
on the h. w., and still others from Palau with the upper surface pale reddish-yellow, constituting a transition 
to pallescens (119b); also in these light-coloured 22 the white disc on the hindwing may be present or may not. 
Jaluit, Marshal Islands, where it is rather common. In the Gilbert (Kingsmill) Islands we find a similar form, 
contained in the British Museum under the name of rarik Eschsch. — pulchra Btlr. is the oldest name of the 
Melanesian forms; type from New Caledonia. — pallescens Btlr. (119b), based upon a ? form from the Fiji 
Islands, where the variability of the collective species reaches its maximum. The cfcf are somewhat larger in size 
than those of jaluita Fruhst ., and as a rule follow the type of auge , one specimen being known which belongs to the 
type of charybdis. — murrayi Btlr. The under surface is most strikingly blue or brown-black, partly irrorated 
with violet; the median band on the h. w. gradually disappears towards the anal angle, being in the form 
charybdis wholly obscured and, even in the discal area, quite rudimentary. The Fruhstorfer collection contains 
35 22, every single one of which might be given a separate name; they vary greatly in size, from 55 — 
85 mm; all have on the under surface of the h. w. a white median band in different stages of development; 
only in one ? it is altogether obliterated; this specimen is throughout of a light coffee-brown colour, only 
interrupted by white apical dots, otherwise entirely devoid of any markings (= maeza form, nov The darkest 
22 resemble euryanthe Fruhst. from Java; ?? displaying, like perimele Cr. and cyanecula Fruhst., a blue band on 
the h. w. are scarce. More frequent are those which resemble the Philippine forms, having the disc on the 
h. w. blue (= naresi Btlr.), or the bands upon the f. w. as well as the disc on the h. w. white (= crexa form, 
nov. 118 c). In addition to these, all kinds of intermediate forms exist, connecting alcmene, antigone Cr. with 
chrysomicans Fruhst. and pallescens Btlr. (119b) so that we find colour-designs peculiar to the Philippines by 
the side of those characteristic of .lava. Finally we observe also iphigenia- and proserpina -22, although not in 
their normal but in a rather melanotic form. Quite remarkable is one ? representing the type of euryanthe, which 
is distinguished by the narrow, golden-brown, distal border on both wings (= pelva form, 'nov.), and which 
reminds us, in like manner as pallescens, of eriphile and manilia Cr., thus introducing also the colour-designs 
peculiar to the southern Moluccas. It is therefore evident that in the Fiji Islands the variability of this species has 
reached its highest development, a fact that may be explained by assuming that specimens of the various forms 
have immigrated from their particular localities to those islands. — As thomsoni Btlr. and morseleyi Btlr. several 
closely-allied forms from Tonga Tabu in the neighbouring Tonga Archipelago have been described. — inconstans 
Btlr. inhabits the Samoa Islands, being found every where, though never in great numbers, in the lower portions 
of the islands, where it prefers the plantations and neighborhood of dwellings. Rebel who registers this Samoan 
form under the name of montrouzieri, reports that it always differs from pallescens Btlr. (or murrayi Btlr.) from 
the Fiji islands in its smaller size and darker colouring. ? with distinct white semi-fascia on the f. w. and 
with similar subapical spots. H. w. with a bluish-white, circular, median spot. Found at Malifa, Vaimea, in May. - 
In the Ellice Islands, to the northwest of Samoa, we encounter a very small, melanotic form: elliciana subsp. 
nov. represented in the British Museum. — According to Kubary the larvae of all the forms found throughout 
the South Sea are identical; certainly those found in Yap, Ebon and Samoa quite agree in their markings, 
otaheitae Fldr. described from Tahiti, Society Islands, is another distinct insular form, found also in the 
Marquesas Islands (British Museum) and in the Paumotu Archipelago. It is generally inferior in size to specimens 
from Java or the Moluccas; the blue spots found in cf are smaller; the ? which is above very dark brown, 
has on the f. w. proximally to the cell an oblique band, composed of 4 short white spots; this is followed by 
a few white spots, placed rather far apart and, before the outer margin, two rows of fulvous, sometimes rather 
indistinct, minute, lunular spots; the marginal lunules found on the h. w. are nearly wholly obliterated, but the 
disc is adorned by a gorgeous, iridescent, sky-blue spot, resembling that of the cf; the transverse band on the under 
surface is very indistinct; taking it altogether, there exists but little difference between the sexes in this form. 
H. diomea is a distinct species belonging to the Celebian Subregion, being known from the main island 
in two local forms: diomea Hew. (119c), inhabiting the Minahassa, appears to be more at home in the sub¬ 
montane region than near the coast, as I have never observed it in the woods on the sea-shore near Toli-Toli. 
In comparison with the antilope- and bolina- groups, the cfcf of this form vary but slightly, especially in the breadth 
of the white, violet-bordered band; moreover, some are much smaller in size than the cf shown in the figure. 
A great rarity is the cf form coerulans form, nov., in which all the white portions of both wings are dusted 
with light blue. The ? has the white patches larger and the submarginal spots on the h. w. more conspicu¬ 
ous; moreover, it is of larger size, and the wings are more rounded, presenting a certain resemblance to the 
2 of Fuploea latifasciata Weym. — fraterna Wall, is a much smaller local form, having the wings shorter 
and more rounded, the whitish portions of the f. w. darker and in the cf more heavily dusted with blue 
and of a more intense blue iridescence. In the 2 the white submarginal spots on h. w. are more reduced, 
IN 
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jaluita. 
pulchra. 
pallescens 
murrayi. 
maeza. 
naresi. 
crexa. 
pelva. 
thomsoni. 
m orseleyi. 
inconstans 
elliciana. 
otaheitae. 
diomea. 
coerulans. 
fraterna. 
