Pubt. 30. Vll. 1915. 
Additions to the Nymphalidae. By H. FruiistORfeR. 
745 
P. 486. For Cirrochroa anijra More read anjira. 
P. 505. Gethosia gabinia nigrescens Eecke. $ beneath chiefly differing from C. gabinia Weym. by exhi- nigrescens. 
biting little strokes where there are spots in gabinia. Sexual organs not differing from gabinia and thereby 
in connection with G. hypsea, whereas Dr. yak Eecke has ascertained that on the other hand the organs of 
C. cyane and G. penthesilea do not greatly differ from each other. Sinabang in Simalur. 
P. 515. Argynnis hyperbius centralis Mart. Hindwings beneath without a green lustre and with a centralis. 
great reduction of the areas with a mother-of-pearl gloss. The transverse band of the cell of the hindwing 
without a white pupil. Described according to a $ from the district of Bada in Central Celebes, from an altitude 
of about 1000 nr. The butterfly is not very rare there, according to the discoverer. 
P. 508. G. cydippe thymbrasa Fruhst. (misprinted into tymbrasa) occurs in Gisser, a small island in 
front of the south east extremity of Ceram. 
P. 509. Gethosia cydippe mysolensis Fruhst. Of a smaller habitus than salwattensis Fruhst. White mysolensis. 
spotting of the forewings more reduced than in specimens from Dutch New Guinea, the blue marginal area 
more extensive, covered with a more intense blue. Mysole. Type in the British Museum. -— ■ Gethosia cydippe 
antianeira Fruhst. Apparently a mountainous form of cydippe praestabilis Fruhst. (Ill a, b), lying before me antianeira. 
from German- and British New Guinea (Milne Bay). Size inferior to praestabilis] the forewings show a remar¬ 
kably narrow white macular series. The blue bordering of the hindwings, however, considerably expanded, 
with a more intense reflection than in the sister-races of the other British and German part of the chief island 
of New Guinea. British New Guinea, particularly in the mountains, such as on Mount Kebea from 3600 to 
6000 ft., on Mount Segooda at 8000 ft., Dinawa at 4000 ft., furthermore near Epa and Ekeikei from 500 to 
1500 ft. Flying all the year round; in the British Museum there are specimens with the flying time of January 
to August. In a transition from G. praestabilis Fruhst. to C. antianeira in a large series of specimens from Kumusi, 
British North New Guinea, in the Coll. Fruhstorfer. 
G. cydippe xerxene subsp. nov. is found in the Yule Island. $ the most closely allied to C. claudilla xerxene. 
Fruhst. (Ill b), but the white subapical band of the forewings appears towards the costal somewhat broadened, 
while the white intranerval submarginal dots are almost obsolete. Beneath scarcely different from claudilla. 
The <$, however, shows great differences and is in no way allied to the races of the chief island of New Guinea, 
but it forms a decided transition to C. cydippe woodlarkiana Fruhst. from the Island of Woodlark. Above all, 
it exhibits already the magnificent dark emerald-green median and basal bands of the under surface of the 
hindwings to be found distinctly prominent only in woodlarkiana, cenchrites Fruhst. and alkmene Fruhst. The 
xerxene-Q is, however, easily distinguishable from ivoodlarkiana-tf by the light yellowish-green basal area of 
the upper surface and the broader white oblique band of the forewings. Of xerxene there exists an excellent 
figure in Tijd. v. Ent. 53, t. 13, fig. 2 by Mr. J. Likdemans. 
Gethosia cydippe doxata Fruhst. $ the most approximating alkmene Fruhst. from the neighbouring doxata. 
Fergusson Island. The white band of the forewing, however, somewhat narrower, though not so dissolved 
as in cleanthis Fruhst. from Kiriwina. $ appears above almost entirely black, only the base of the wings pow¬ 
dered with greenish. The white band of the forewings keeping midway between alkmene and cleanthis. Goode- 
nough Island (Dauila) of the d’Entrecasteaux Group to the north of British New Guinea. 
P. 510. Gethosia obscura hormisda subsp. nov. $ differing from G. obscura antippe Sm. by a smaller hormisda. 
habitus and especially on the forewings by narrowed white components of the submarginal longitudinal band. 
On the under surface the basal red of the hindwings is much more reduced than in antippe. New Hannover, 
common. A large series in my collection. 
P. 511. Melitaea balba Evans is just as magnificently marked as M. balbita Moore (Vol. I, t. 67 e) balba. 
from Cashmir, but of a smaller shape, only the discal band appears more complete. From Chitral. 
P. 511. Melitaea mixta Evans approximates persea Roll, and trivia Schiff., being still more variable mixta. 
and more brightly coloured than persea. Evaks supposes that mixta belongs decidedly to a particular species, 
since it occurs beside M. didyma chitralensis Moore and both can impossibly be didyma- races. According to 
a report from Mr. Riley, a considerable series of M. mixta is in the British Museum. 
P. 514. Argynnis aglaia ashretha Evans is a large form with magnificent yellow FS an d greatly darkened astiretha. 
9$ as having been described and figured by Niceville in the Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Vol. XIV, p. 236. It 
occurs in the valleys of South Chitral, especially in the Ashrelt Valley between 6 and 8000 ft., whereas the 
smaller, paler A. aglaia vitatha Moore inhabits altitudes of 10 to 13 000 ft. in Cashmir and Chitral. 
P. 516. Argynnis laodice cydrana subsp. nov. $ uncommonly large, analogous to the $$ of A. laodice cydrana. 
rudina Fruhst. (Vol. I, p. 228) from West China. The black spotting of the upper surface stronger, whereby 
a transition is formed to rudra Moore (Vol. I, t. 70 e) from Assam and Burma. Under surface recognizable by 
an intensely red-brown and considerably broader median zone of the hindwings than in rudrina, whereby it 
much more approximates the Japanese A. laodice ariana (Vol. I, t. 70 c). Kwangtung. 
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