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kuangshui. 
himera. 
bateia. 
donus. 
anicetus. 
eumelus. 
Additions to the Nymphalklae. By H. FruhstorfeB. 
Argynnis nerippe kuangshiii subsp. nov. resembles A. nerippe nerippina Fruhst. (Vol. I, t. 69 f) from 
Tibet and West China, though the black spotting of the upper surface appears somewhat reduced. Under sur¬ 
face remarkably differentiated: first of all of a peculiar dull-yellow, whereby it reminds us of some forms of 
A. nerippe Fldr. from Japan, also on the hindwings resembling nerippe from which, however, it deviates again 
by a more pronounced submarginal silvery band. The basal and median silvery spots, however, compared 
with nerippina, extremely reduced. Upper surface approximating more nerippina, but by the larger shape 
and the intenser yellow immediately discernible from the Japanese vicarions type. Kwangtung. Denominated 
according to the unlucky reform-emperor, Kuangshii, who was slowly put to death for political reasons by 
the ,,old Budda“ of the Empress Tsu-Hsi. 
P. 516. A. childreni caesarea Fruhst. was recently found also in numbers in Kwantung. 
P. 521. Precis erigone tristis Fruhst. (117 b) is not identical with P. erigone tristis Misk., but it repre¬ 
sents an areal form differing more from the erigone-type than from P. tristis Misk. The genuine tristis exhibits 
on the forewings a broad white band being absent in the race figured by us, to which I herewith give the new 
name of himera nom. nov. 
P. 537. Mynes schonbergi Rob. coincides, as I presumed according to the diagnose, with M. cottonis Sm. 
The types of Rober (2 Ad 1 ? from the Coll, von Schonberg) are now in the Coll. Frtjhstorfee. 
P. 546. Hypolimnas alimena bateia subsp. nov. Approximating libisonia Fruhst. from the Milne Bay, 
but considerably smaller and with narrower blue bands of the upper surface of both wings, the result of the 
satellite-island melanism. Yule Island. 
P. 559. D. montrouzieri Btlr. does not originate, as stated, from the Island of Woodlark, but accor¬ 
ding to the original diagnose of Butler, from Vanna-Levu of the New Hebrides. 
P. 560. D. gurelca Sm. is to be eliminated as a local race of D. bisalticle and to be inserted as a species 
before D. australis Fldr. D. orthagoria Fruhst. is likewise not a form, but a highly qualified local race. 
P. 561. For D. noorua read noorna. 
P. 562. D. hexophthalmus donus subsp. nov. It differs from D. demades Fruhst. from the Milne Bay 
by its smaller shape, reduced white subapical spots of the forewings and a larger yellow area distal before the 
apex of the forewing-cell. The black transverse stripe in the cell itself, however, strangulated. Island of Wood¬ 
lark, apparently rare. 
P. 562. D. crameri sinda Fruhst. was also found in the Yule Island. 
P. 563. D. dascylus anicetus subsp. nov. A the most closely approximating D. phalinus Fruhst. from 
Waigiu, but the habitus still smaller, though with just as minute subapical and submarginal punctiform spots 
of the forewings. The black part of the forewings like in D. eudascylus and D. dascylus, though extending still 
farther towards the base of the wing, whereby the red-yellow basal area is still more confined than in the forms 
of the chief island. Yule Island. anicetv,s is one of the most surprising discoveries of recent times and shows 
once more what variations may be effected by a narrow arm of the sea. Analogous to D. dascylus and parti¬ 
cularly D. comrii it was supposed that Yule would be inhabited by a large light-blue spotted D. dascylus-ionw, 
instead of this, the island supplies us with the smallest-dotted of all the side-branches known of the collective 
species. 
P. 577. C. maenalis eumelus subsp. nov. exhibits on a bluish-white ground extremely thin black longi¬ 
tudinal stripes, so that eumelus on being compared with maenalis- specimens from Lnzon and Zambales of the 
Coll. Semper make the impression of a distinct species. Babuyanes, type in the Coll. Semper. 
P. 578. Cyrestis maenalis subsp. nov. Another transition was found to C. irmae and C. maenalis in 
Simalur, mentioned by Dr. R. van Eecke (Notes Leyden Museum 35, p. 246). The black longitudinal stripes 
and generally also the other black markings of this insular race appear more extensive than in C. irmae from 
Sumatra. 
P. 579. Of C. heracles, originally described from the Sula Islands and Tonkean (East Celebes), also 
material from the Minahassa is lying before me now, and according to a letter from Dr. L. Martin, the species 
is very common in the surroundings of the Bay of Palu, Central Celebes. 
P. 587—-591. As a collective species C. acilia Godt. has to be considered; not, as was stated on p. 587, 
C. strigata Fldr. To acilia some more local races are to be added: C. ceramensis Mart., C. nitida Math., besides 
all the forms from C. dola Fruhst. to C. bassara Fruhst. (p. 591). C. eximia Oberth. from Sangir, however, must 
probably be regarded as a distinct species. The reason, why so many mistakes have occurred in this genus, 
is that on account of an expedition in North China, no corrections could be re-forwarded. 
