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DOLESCHALLIA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
is of a lovely red-brown colour, adorned with silvery markings and large ocelli which appear also on the f. w. 
quite perfect. Found in Viti-Levu, presumably also on the adjacent islands. The larva is differing essentially 
from that of philippensis Fruhst. and bisaltide Cr ., according to Semper, who referred to Mathew’s picture of the 
form from the New Hebrides. — In the Bismarck Archipelago we meet with two other quite sharply differentiated 
gurelca. forms: gurelca Sm. (112c), the smaller of Ihe two and peculiar to the dry-season, is distinguished by the absence 
also in the cf of the black transcellular band on the f. w., as a result of which the short black spot at the 
apex of the cell is quite isolated. The cf is more darkly shaded with reddish-brown and more broadly bordered 
with black than the ? represented in our figure; the ? varies considerably in size, some specimens being fully 
one third larger than our figure. The cd is beneath of a faded reddish-gray, adorned with silvery spots, feebly 
orthagoria. shaded with greenish. The ? is pale yellow-brown, with indistinct, brown longitudinal bands. — orthagoria form. 
nor. (137 c) closely approaches the normal form bisaltide, the f. w. being covered with a very broad, black, apical 
patch, which leaves of the red-brown band only two isolated spots so that orthagonia much more resembles 
sulaensis Fruhst. and celebensis Fruhst. than gurelca. At the same time it is of larger size, and the submarginal dots 
on the h. w. are more pronounced. Beneath the prevailing colour is red-brown, with yellowish-brown patches and 
large, glossy, silvery spots; on the f. w. we find at the apex of the cell the nimbata- design, and the large ocelli are 
pupilled with a beautiful red-yellow, all of which gives orthagoria the luxuriant appearance of a rainy-season form. 
Neu Mecklenburg; one cf of the type gurelca from Neu Pommern in the Fruhstorfer coll. Occurs according to 
sciron. Ribbe also in Neu Lauenburg. — sciron Godm. a. Sale. (112 c) replaces bisaltide in the Solomon Islands. The cf is 
of the Aerne/m-type, distinguished by two black, distal, intramedian ocelli, pupilled with white, and by the pale yel¬ 
low colouring of the median portion of the f w. above; the h. w. are red-brown. The ? represents a retrogradation to 
the gurelca- type that reappears again in the West-Malayan Region in the forms pratipa Fldr. and mariae Fruhst. 
Transcellular region of the f. w. often nearly white, the base darker than in gurelca -??. The under surface of the 
cfcf is quite variegated, chiefly gray-brown, with yellow patches and black median stripes margined with violet; in 
the ? it is gray, shaded with purplish in the distal half. Ribbe reports it from all the islands of the Solomon group 
visited by him. The type came from Guadalcanal’: my coll, contains also specimens from the Shortlands and Trea- 
menexema. sury Island. — menexema subsp. nor. The ? differs from sciron -?? in having on the f. w. the black border of the 
apical and distal portions much narrower, and the two white patches, one on each side of the upper median ner- 
vule, proximally accompanied by scattering, black dots. The undersurface is of a faded, pale red-brown colour, dark¬ 
ly shaded with violet and purple in the basal half and with yellowish gray-brown in the outer half. Florida Island. 
australis. D. australis Fldr. preserves on the under surface entirely the characteristics of D. bisaltide, whereas the 
upper surface differs in that the black bordering keeps in both sexes the same considerable distance from the apex 
of the cell which is not closed even in the rudimentary fashion we notice in D. browni Godm., noorua Sm. and nacar 
Bsd. On the other hand, the white frontal dots on the f'. w. have been greatly developed. The ? is always 
larger and on the upper surface of the f. w. in of a paler and purer white colour than the cfcf. The under surface 
of the cf is argyroid, the ground-colour reddish-yellow, purple or greenish-gray, in ? quite monotonous, leaf¬ 
like, presenting the same shades of colour as we find in the cf, always with a greenish, longitudinal band, proxi¬ 
mally irrorated with whitish. Occurring in Australia from the Richmond River as far as Cape York, it has 
spread to the Key Islands without undergoing any apparent change; Ribbe reports it also from the Aru Islands. 
D. browni probably takes the place of />. australis in the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands. 
scotina. It occurs in 3 insular forms: scotina subsp. now (112 d), figured from a ? which was found by Ribbe in the 
Shortlands Islands, differs from browni (Neu Lauenburg) in its smaller size, the more conspicuous white dots, 
and the lighter-coloured transcellular patch on the f. w. as well as the deep red-brown colour of the upper 
surface of the h. w. On the under surface the cell is red-brown, spotted with violet, and displaying at the 
apex the nimbata- design. The predominant ground-colour is yellow, before the apex of the cell whitish, with 
browni. violet median band, dist.ally bordered with chocolate-brown. -— browni Godm. a. Salv. is above of a more uniform, 
pale yellow colour, the h. w. almost imperceptibly irrorated with brown. Beneath it. resembles scotina , from 
which it is distinguished by the absence of the whitish portion at the extremity of the cell in the f. w.; moreover, 
the colour is a deeper red-brown and extends farther than in scotina, and the argyroides-’pa.tches are obscured 
with violet. Found in all the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago. The cf which is much rarer than the ?, is 
above brillant red-brown, the apical half of the f. w. is velvety-black from the middle of the costal margin as 
far as the anal angle. Beneath it is darker than the?, and the snowy-white spots stand out even more sharply. 
D. nacar represents an interesting species, limited to the western Melanesian Region and occurring in 
nacar. two forms: In nacar Bsd, the upper surface has quite plain markings, reddish-yellow in the basal and black 
in the outer half. The f. w. has a short, black streak at the apex of the cell and five minute white dots, 
distributed as in D. browni. On the under surface the basal half is of a deep coffee-brown colour, the distal 
half yellow and partially greenish-brown; both are separated by a black median line, distally margined with 
pale lavender. The ocelli, of which two are found also at the anal angle of the f. w., are very large; the 
silvery markings quite conspicuous, taking on the f. w. the form of very line, undulate lines. Only I cf from 
Hattam-Arfark in my coll. — Snellen figured in 1889 a cf -form from Andai in north-western Dutch New 
trachelvs. Guinea: trachelus Fruhst. (112 b), which is still darker above, but more uniform brown-red beneath. In the cf 
the black anal border of both wings is narrower, more like a straight line; the basal area lighter, especially 
on the f. w. The li. w. somewhat more elongate, beneath with smaller-sized ocelli. In the ? tbe distal border 
