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EUR!PUS. By H. Fruhstorfek. 
tinnamo- — cinnamomeus Wood-Mas. (114 d). One of the commonest forms, mimicking a blue Euploea. Forewings 
meus. w ith violet or blue iridescence, hindwings with white terminal dots and occasionally some more or less promi- 
nyctelius. nent submarginal dots. — nycfelius Dbl. is a very scarce form, forewings purplish or violet, hindwings with 
yyrtone. steel-blue base, 3 discal black stripes and yellowish-white median area. — gyrtone Fruhst. resembles the prece¬ 
ding, but lacks on the hindwings the three basal streaks, and the forewings are adorned by a white transcel- 
mastor. lular band dusted with delicate violet. — master Fruhst. (115 d), from Farther India and Indo-China, larger 
and darker than the form of India proper. AS have the spots above shorter and more yellow. Hindwings 
darker, chiefly black, also underneath. Type from Tonkin, where the AS are not at all scarce in August and 
September. AS from Tenasserim are very much like mastor, but showing a resemblance also to halitherses from 
Assam. Siam AS (January) are smaller, spotted with yellow like mastor. It is quite probable that in Farther 
India all the $ forms mentioned under halitherses occur, gulussa Fruhst. excepted. Besides these there are found 
phygalia. also some special modifications, such as $ fa. phygalia Fruhst. Ground-colour a dull coffee-brown, forewings 
as in isa-neda, but with the transcellular band faintly laved with yellowish. Hindwings cream-coloured through- 
hadria. out, with brown distal border. Underneath it resembles neda which likewise occurs in Tonkin. — $ fa. hadria 
Fruhst. is found, together with cinnamomeus, in Annam in November and December. Forewings with a whitish 
pfeifferae. steel-blue transverse band. — pfeifferae Fldr., from the Malay Peninsula. A resembles the white-spotted 
halitherses A of Sikkim, but with the black colouring increased and the white spots diminuished. Two 
forms known, one mimicking Euploea rhadamanthus F ., the other on which Felder’s type was based, somewhat 
darker, both wings with uncommonly broad, black distal border, hindwings with but one white discal stripe. — 
euploeoides. eupSoeoides Fldr. is the brown form, somewhat resembling palavensis. Very scarce, ^ Dot represented in my col- 
sumalrensis. lection. — sumafrensis subsp. nov. Of the $ 3 forms are known: 1) Very rare, above uniformly brown, copying 
euploeoides Fldr., 2) not unlike isa Moore and copying Eupl. diocletianus F ., not very scarce, 3) copying a blue 
Euploea, with blue or violet iridescence. According to Dr. Martin, the AS have a rapid flight like many 
Aihyma, whereas the mimick also in their slow and sailing movements those Euploeas which they copy in 
their outer appearance. In one A of the Tring Museum the white spots of the upper surface are nearly oblitera- 
haterius. ted, but in general the AS have those spots larger than in pfeifferae. — haterius subsp. nov. (115 as pfeifferae) 
refers to the larger form of West Sumatra (only 1 $ in my collection captured in Padang Bovenlanden in the we¬ 
stern part of the island. As usually, the western form surpasses sumafrensis, from the Northeast of the island, 
niasicus. in size. The white spots of the hindwings are, as in neda Fruhst., united with the discal strigae. — niasicus 
Fruhst. A larger on the average than AS of the other halitherses forms, with the white stripes, especially in the 
cell, thinner and more isolated. On the under surface of the forewings the white marginal dots likewise 
more marked and always reaching the apex, in contradistinction to the other forms; also the hindwings excel 
in the rich white markings of the apical and subcellular area. — In contradistinction to these albino AA> but 
still mimicking Eupl. schreiberi Btlr. the $ of niasicus is altogether blackish-fuscous, forewings with very 
faint violet irroration in the apical area and a white transverse band of 4 spots, the lower of which, as in 
pfeifferae, farther separate or reduced in size. Hindwings devoid of markings above, only the marginal dots sho- 
javanus. wing through from underneath. $$ extremely scarce. Island of Nias. — javanus Fruhst. varies most wonder¬ 
fully, even in the AS> of which hardly two are alike; my collection contains specimens from the eastern part 
of the island with white, bluish-grey, yellow or grey-green stripes. Besides these there occurs in East Java an 
lugubris. aberration with nearly wholly black hindwings (= Sugubris Fruhst.). Of the $ my collection contains 4 forms: 
halizona. halizona Fruhst. Forewing with apex pale violet, hindwings with a peculiar pale brown blotch growing broader 
albostictica. apically and spreading over the entire marginal area. — $ fa. albosticfica form. nov. replaces cinnamomeus 
in Java. Fore wings steel-blue, with the apex delicately irrorated with violet. Hindwings brown, with prominent 
pfeifferoi- white terminal dots; on the wing it resembles Hypolimnas anomala. —- $ fa. pfeifferoides Fruhst. replaces 
des. isa Moore. Steel-blue above, with the white spots reduced. — $ fa. daniseppa Fruhst. has on pale brown 
damseppa. g roun( q the markings of Eupl. alcidice, resembling the mainland form neda Fruhst., copying on the wing the 
$ of Eupl. alcidice Hbn. AS from West Java are larger than those from the East, with the yellowish areas 
of the upper surface correspondingly larger. Everywhere to be found in open woods, at elevations of 1500— 
borncensis. 2500 ft. — In borneensis Dist. the variability of the $$ reaches its maximum. Besides the 3 forms established 
uniformis. by me formerly, viz: uniformis Fruhst. with uniformly brown upper surface, loweiminia Fruhst., likewise brown, 
loweimima. ] n p w ph the markings of Eupl. lowei, and crastiana Fruhst., steelblue, with intensely whitish-violet apex of the 
strigata. fore wings, the Tring Museum contains the following forms: sfrigata form. nov. Hindwings with blackish-blue 
euploeina. basal stripes, distal area light brown. — euploeina form, nov., resembling loweimima, but with blue ground¬ 
colour. Then there are $$ with dark blue forewings and the apex striped with pale blue, such that are brown, 
with 2 rows of white patches in the submarginal area of the forewings, analogous to the mainland form 
