HYPO LIMN AS. By IB Fruhstorfer. 
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perryi Btlr., described from a ? captured at Erromango in the central New Hebrides, may belong to octocula. perryi. 
I only know it from the rather indistinct black drawing made by its author. Above dark brown, with the sub- 
marginal spotting usually found in octocula. The f. w. has beyond the cell an area of white or whitish colour 
which has so far not been observed on the upper surface of the ?? from the Melanesian Hegion. The ground-colour 
is dark brown, distally somewhat lighter. — lifuana Btlr. from the Loyalty Islands, is according to Semper identical Ufuana. 
with elsina Btlr. — arakalulk Setup. Of this form seven specimens were taken in the Palau group of the Carolines, arakalulk. 
where they are found from April until December. F. w. with a short, brown-yellow transverse band which only 
reaches the first median and is broader and less curved than in octacula and elsina. The yellow area of the h. w. is 
narrower in front and towards the anal angle. H. w. with six black, white-pupilled eye-spots. In the ? the ground¬ 
colour is lighter, the band above almost as light as beneath, and the white markings of the cell are showing through 
above. From the Palau Islands; — marianensis subsp. nov. Whereas the general design is the same as in arakalulk, l^isis 
the brown-yellow bands are, especially on the h. w., narrower, and the under surface very much darker. From the 
Marianas Islands; some specimens are according to Semper contained in the Tring Mus. and in the Oberthuer coll. 
H. deois is an interesting and most variable species, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands as 
well as the northern Moluccas. We are not acquainted with all the existing insular forms as yet, of which 
only a lew are really abundant, whereas others, like those from the Aru and Key Islands, are reckoned among 
the greatest rarities. Whereas it is greatly surpassed in size by pandarus L. from the Moluccas, the d'd 1 
present almost the same general markings as we see in pandarus. All the cfcf have in common a series of 
unequally large eye-spots, enclosed within an area of fulvous or black, and interrupted between the lower radial 
and the upper median; they are all more or less distinctly pupilled with white or violet and show plainly 
through above. The disc of the h. w. is either violet or white, with blue periphery. The ?? are always 
dimorphic, having as a rule a broad white band on the f. w.; only in one local form the colour is gray-black 
throughout. Nothing is known of the earlier stages. — tydea Fldr., the most northern form, described by tydea. 
Felder from Batjan and Halmaheira, but possibly also found in Terhate and Morotai. c? resembles the figured 
paleutes- d 71 , but has the violet or blue discal spot considerably smaller and the ocelli on the h. w. pupilled 
with blue. The ? is at once recognized by the whitish tint of the f. w., extending also to the apical portion 
of the cell which otherwise is shaded all over with brown-gray. On the h. w. the ?? have a large rhom¬ 
boid discal area of yellowish white colour, gradually shading posteriorly into the fulvous anal region which 
encloses several large, oblong eye-spots. The under surface of the f. w. is dark gray, lighted up in the middle 
with gray-white. The h. w. is yellowish-white, having the ocelli ringed with orange. — obianus subsp. nov. obianus. 
The only cf 71 specimen I possess of this form, is rather smaller than tydea , but the discal spot on the h. w. 
is larger, of violet colour and more pure white at the center. The fulvous submarginal area is not so broad 
as in specimens from Batjan, and more sharply delineated. From the island of Obi: undoubtedly very scarce. - 
hewitsoni Wall, occurs as a great rarity in the Key Islands, only a few specimens having been taken by hewitsoni. 
Kuehn in Tiandu; my coil, does not contain it. The ? has a very broad white band on either side of 
the f. w., resembling Euploea assimilata Fldr. found in the same islands. —- deois I Lew. likewise very rare and deois. 
unknown to me in natura. The ground-colour is black, on the h. w. a broad, brown-yellow band encloses 6—7 
black ocelli, partly pupilled with white. Between this band and the cell the cf has on the h. w. a large-sized 
spot of whitish colour irrorated with violet. ? resembles the ? of hewitsoni in its richer white markings. Aru 
Islands, according to Staudinger also Waigeu. panopion Sm. (118b), closely allied to deois, inhabits the panopion. 
entire north coast ol New Guinea; the type came from Humboldt Bay, the model for our figure from Astrolabe 
Bay. The cfcY are rather variable, displaying at times not a trace of white in the violet disc on the h. w., 
which renders their resemblance to deois and tydeus most striking. In the ? the white area on the f. w. may 
occasionally be of lesser extent than appears in our figure. Beneath the white markings increase to such an 
extent that they cover the entire apical portion of the f. w. and leave free even on the h. w. only the brown- 
gray basal region. Both the radials and the lower medians enclose a white-pupilled eye-spot, almost imperceptibly 
shaded at the periphery with pale yellow. The white subterminal stripe, seen on the upper surface of the f. w. 
in our figurh, is obsolete in the darker ?$. Found according to Hagen from December until April, but never 
in great numbers. — divina Fruhst. (118 b), a local form from British New Guinea, has especially on the h. w. divina. 
much richer white markings. In the cf the white discal area of the h. w. is very broad. In ? the anterior 
eye-spots do not show a trace of yellowish rings. In cf the under surface of the f. w is sometimes adorned 
with a complete, broad, transverse band of whitish colour. The hindwings have the outer half whitish, the 
ocelli enclosed within it are only indistinctly bordered with reddish. Occurs at Milne Bay from October until 
April. - palladius Sm. is a magnificent, highly differentiated, insular form and, at the same time, the only palladius. 
one with a white transverse band on the f. w. of the cfcf. In normal specimens the upper surface of the 
h. w. is black; in some rarer aberrations, however, we notice in the violet disc a retrogression to the type of 
deois and tydeus (= f. fydeina form. nov.). The anal ocelli on the hindwings of the cfd 71 are occasionally ringed tydeina. 
with fulvous. The ? most closely approaches the ? of divina Fruhst. from British New Guinea, excepting that 
the row of ocelli on the h. w is complete, being composed of circular black patches, all of which are pupilled 
with white excepting the fourth, which has no pupil. From Fergusson, in the d’Entrecastcaux Archipelago. - 
paleutes Sm. (118 a), distinguished by the violet discal spot on the upper surface of the h. w. The ? may be paleutes. 
easily recognized by the uniformly gray-black ground-colour, only interrupted by the distinct white submarginal 
