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DOLESCHALLIA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
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or red-brown, richly adorned with silvery spots. From Kapaur, in the south-western portion of Dutch New 
ardys. Guinea. — ardys subsp. nov. (113 a) inhabiting Kaiser Wilhelmsland, greatly varies as to size, analogous to 
hexophthalmos from Amboina. Some ?? in my collection are rather larger than the ? shown in our figure, 
but their colour is not such a brillant red-brown. Both the largest as well as the smallest specimens come 
from Finschhafen. The under surface of the cfcf, which follows invariably the fa. argyroides , is green, richly 
laved with gray-white. The ? is greenish-gray or varies througli all shades from yellow to red-brown. Hagen 
who confounded it with D. bisaltide nacar Bsd ., reports that the cfed are very comnfon, the ?? exceedingly 
scarce. Found in the neighborhood of Simbang (Stephansort, Astrolabe-Bay) from December until February; 
it is a rapid, strong flier, surpassing bisaltide from Sumatra and Java; it generally rests upon the ground, 
demades. never on wooden walls or trunks of trees, as is the habit of the Macromalayan forms. — demades subsp. nov. 
is a greatly obscured local form from British New Guinea, with broader outer border on both wings, and small 
reddish patches on the band crossing the f. w.; in the cdcf the under surface is invariably light coffee-brown. 
varus, with an insignificant whitish clouding, From Milne-Bay (Fruhstorfer coll.). — varus subsp. nov. surpasses all 
the Papuan forms in size, whereas the black border of the upper surface is narrower than in demades. The 
ground-colour, especially in ?, is a lighter yellow-brown; the under side is, analogous to demades, reddish, 
only in one cd irrorated with greenish. Kiriwina and Fergusson Islds. 
D. crameri invariably accompanies D. hexophthalmos wherever this is found, and it is not unlikely that 
it may prove to be only a melanotic form of the same, the more so, as the under surface offers no special 
characteristics whatsoever. Certainly it is no seasonal form, because it always occurs together with hexoph¬ 
thalmos, the cdcd of which partially belong to the fa. argyroides (supposedly the brood of the wet-season) and 
partially to the plain, leaf-like variety, which is most likely the dry-season form of all the species of Dole- 
crameri. schallia. In crameri JJist. (112 d), based on fig. C. and D. pi. 235 of Cramer’s work, the narrow, yellowish 
macular band on the f. w. is reduced to three small patches, one ? contained in my coll, having only two, of 
roundish shape and standing far apart. In addition to these there exist cdcd that show not even a trace of 
ambr'inemis S11C ^ sp°t s (= nigella form, nov), and again ??, described as ambrinensis St.gr., with whitish-violet trans- 
sophihis. cellular spots on the forewing, analogous to our figure (112 d). - sophilus Frulist., a luxuriant form from 
Halmaheira, where it occurs side by side with I), hexophthalmos gajus Fruhst., with shorter and broader milky- 
white spots on the f. w. The under side is pale buff or ochre-yellow, like gajus. May occur also on the 
tanara. other islands of the northern Moluccas. — tanara Fruhst. is found together with areas Fruhst. on the island 
of Waigeu, where it is rather common. The cd differs but slightly from ?, being only somewhat larger, 
with the whitish-violet spots more prominent. Beneath the cdcd are paler green than in areas. In the ? the 
lactearia. colouring is a faded gray-brown with greenish irroration. — lactearia Fruhst. (113 a) described from Kapaur, 
closely approaches D. hexophthalmos Jcapaurensis Fruhst.; the f. w. with a well-developed band which appears 
in fig. 113 a) too much encroached upon by the black colour. The uppermost spot located on the costal 
margin is light blue, the following two are whitish, shaded with violet. But in Kaiser-Wilhelmsland we meet 
with specimens having the band just as narrow as appears in the figure, 5 cdcd with greenish and 3 cdcd 
and one ? with coffee-brown under surface being contained in my coll. Finschhafen and Astrolabe-Bay. One 
cd from Dorey has the band on the f. w. greatly obscured with fuscous and shaded with reddish. — cdcd from 
sinda. Milne-Bay, British New-Guinea, I call sinda Fruhst.; they are of large size, broadly bordered with black, like 
tervisia. ]). hexophthalmos demades , beneath of a faded whitish gray-green colour. — tervisea Fruhst. is an obscured 
form from Fergusson, with a row of uniform violet spots on the f. w., in which the apical portion extends 
beyond the cell, confining the deep red-brown basal area. The under surface is reddish-brown, profusely 
spotted with white. From the islands of the d’Entrecasteaux and Trobriand groups. 
D. melana. In this sharply-defined species which is only found in 'the Moluccas, the under surface is 
almost identical with that of hexophthalmos Gmel., but with more prominent frontal band on the f. w. On the 
h. w. the foremost ocelli are pupilled with a more intense and striking vermillion-red. The ground-colour is 
melana. dark coffee-brown, in cf with finely undulate, silvery markings shaded with greenish. — melana Stgr., described 
sinis. from Amboina. The ? came from Ceram and was given the name sinis Sm.; this may be maintained, if it can be 
proved that the specimens from Ceram are larger in size than those from Amboina. In the ? the black apical 
portion of the f. w. is proximally less sharply defined and the basal half is lighter yellow. Four cdcd from Sapa- 
jimena. rua and Buru contained in my coll, are somewhat inferior in size to my Amboina-cdcd. — jimena stdisp. nov. 
based on two ?? contained in the Fruhstorfer collection, differs from sinis Sm.-'j in that the black apical half of 
the f. w. is beyond the cell almost imperceptibly notched and excavated, and that the black distal border of the 
h. w. is more conspicuous; the under side is of a deeper shade, more chocolate than yellow-brown, in the subanal 
zone with a whitish-violet subterminal band. The cell of the f. w. is banded with dark green. Island of Obi. 
D. dascon is farthest removed from the type of D. bisaltide, being the only species with light cinnamon- 
brown upper surface and with a very broad, oblique, blue trancellular band on the f. w., which distinguishes 
it from D. dascylus, a Melanesian species represented by a greater number of forms, dascon seems to be 
dascon. limited to the main island of New Guinea, where it occurs in only two forms: dascon Godm.a.Salv. resembles 
above dasconides (112 a) but the patches composing the macular band are isolated and darker blue. British 
dasconides. New Guinea; very rare. — dasconides Fruhst. A great number of specimens of Doleschallia from Kaiser- 
