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TELCHINIA; ACRAEA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
than continental vesta-$, with a generally still more progressive black spotting than alticola. Two A forms: 
a. Forewing without a pronounced black median macular band of the forewing, and (3. with such a band. — 
narona. narona subsp. nov. is the local form of East Java being above paler buff. There are no specimens with a pro¬ 
minent median band of the forewing. $ lacks the submarginal band being above red-yellow in ve-stoides, the 
yellow or whitish strigae of the forewings are shorter. Of a rare occurrence are specimens with two jet-black 
arm. submarginal dentate bands linked together without being separated by a red-yellow filling. — arsa form. nov. 
In Java both vesta- races are, beside Lethe arete, the first butterflies the traveller comes across on having left 
the hot lowlands and on reaching the cool mountainous region. Pareba will nowheres be met at elevations 
below 4000 ft., while according to the season, on the edges of roads, hundreds of butterflies or colonies of larvae 
are to be seen which Horsfield observed already in 1829 living on an Urticacee, being denominated by the 
Javanese ,,Latungan“. Moore figured (Lep. Indica V, t. 387 f 1 — 1 c) the West Javanese race vestoides without 
mentioning this in the text, he copied the magnificent larva according to Horsfield (1829, t. Ill f. 27). Do¬ 
herty found a Pareba vesta in Bali. According to Staitdinger, vesta occurs also in the Philippines; a very 
natural patria which has, curiously enough, not been confirmed by Semper. Presumably vesta will also be 
found yet in Celebes; Argynnis hyperbia with which it is always seen flying, has already been reported from 
Central Celebes. 
2. Genus: Telchiiaia Hbn. 
Differentiated from Pareba by a shorter cell of the hindwing showing a considerably longer anterior 
discocellular so that the two radials do not rise from a common base, but far remote from each other at the 
cell wall. Shape of the wings more roundish than in Pareba. Larva red-brown with an oil-gloss. Pupa slender, 
cream-coloured with black stripes and orange spots. 
violae. T. violae F. (138 a) has beneath paler red-yellow hindwings being decorated with larger yellow 
terminal spots than above. Both sexes exhibit moreover whitish dusting near the distal border between the 
slightly blackened veins. Niceville threw T. violae to Mantids and stated that this was the only butterfly 
which was not eaten by these carnivorous Orthoptera. Larva on Modecca palmata Lam., a Passiflore, especially 
in July to September. The butterfly prefers the plains, though it goes up the foothills of the Himalaya as 
far as about 1000 m and it is met in all the rainy parts of Continental India and also in Ceylon. 
3. Genus: Acrsiea F. 
The sole Australian species of this genus differs in the veins so little from any kind of species from 
Uganda which I bathed in chlorine for the sake of comparison, that a generic or subgeneric separation appears 
unjustified. We have to mention the very weak cell-end of the forewings by a thin, stunted posterior discocellu¬ 
lar and an extremely short cell of the hindwings resembling Planema. This cell exhibits a very distinct anterior 
discocellular by which it differs from Pareba. On the whole, the veins approximate those of Telchinia to such 
an extent that we cannot decide whether andromacha is to be united with Telchinia or Telchinia is to be abo¬ 
lished and considered as Acme a. Range: Australia to the east as far as Samoa, to the west as far as Sumbawa 
and Sumba. Nothing is known about the early stages. 
A. andromacha differs beneath only by a brighter white of the hindwings and the more imposing 
andromacha. yellow marginal spots before the upper surface. $ somewhat larger than the <$. andromacha F. (138 b) inhabits 
Australia from the Cape of York to Sydney. The butterflies vary somewhat in size and eventually in the shape 
of the black dotting. Semper mentions andromacha also from New Caledonia and New Georgia. In the Coll. 
polynesiaca. Fruhstorfer there are specimens from Roma, Wetter, Sumbawa. — polynesiaca Rbl. is in the female larger 
than $$ from Australia, it exhibits somewhat longer, more strigiform, yellowish small intranerval spots of 
the upper surface of the hindwings in the black distal border and somewhat smaller black discal spots. Samoa 
Islands at an altitude of about 500 m, not very common, but it flies, as I have observed this in Pareba vesta 
in Tonkin, also in rainy weather which very often sets in in its patriae. Flying time particularly May and 
June. It flies slowly so that many specimens may be grasped with one’s hand. A similar race flies also in the 
agema. Fidji Islands. — agema Fruhst. (138 b) described according to a specimen of my collection without its habitat 
sanderi. being mentioned, may be identical with sanderi R. and J. frow New Guinea. A apex with a slight black hue, 
cell blackish, all around encircled by bownish dots and diffuse spots showing partly through from beneath. 
Hindwings with a broad black border, an imposing, proximally graduated, yellowish submarginal band traverses 
the whole wing. Base of the wing as far as beyond the cell black, the black spotting dissolves distally into 
small squares. Beneath like above, except that the distal border is set with small indistinct yellowish dots. 
oenone. According to Hagen not in the Astrolabe Bay, but near Simbang, the hinter-land of the Huon Golf. — oenotie 
Kirby forms the transition from Australian andromacha to the race from New Guinea. From the south-east 
indica. island, St. Aignan, and other satellite islands of British New-Guinea. — indica Rob. is a neat diminutive 
form of andromacha with, according to its small size, also reduced black spots of the hindwings. The small 
yellow spots in the black distal border but as large as a stitch. From the remote Island of Kabia to 
the south of Celebes. 
