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green mottlings and most of the black lines and shades wanting; the corresponding $ is generally still paler. 
— 9-ab. caesia Warr. (8e) is purple-grey or slate-grey above, only slightly sprinkled with green. Walker’s type enema. 
of saturataria was from Mysol. The range extends across New Guinea to the Bismarck and Louisiade Islands 
and a $ in the British Museum is labelled „N. Australia". „W. Australia" (Swinhoe, Lep. Het. Oxf. Mus. II, 
p. 384) is probably an error (Turner). 
Ae. languida Warr. (<$ = rufivaria Warr.) (4a) is a strongly dimorphic species in colouring: the languida. 
above green with red markings, beneath orange, the hindwing brightest, with a black border; the $ delicate 
violet-grey above and beneath, the underside only at base orange. British and Dutch New Guinea and Goode- 
nough Island. 
Ae. purpurissa Warr. (8e) Larger than languida, more heavily marked with black, including a curved purpurissa. 
mark across the thorax. much mixed with whitish, $ more recalling purple forms of saturataria but with 
a pale apex. Underside deep purple, forewing with white apex, hindwing with whitish postmedian band and 
orange abdominal margin. British New Guinea and the Weyland Mountains. 
Ae. chioneschatia Prout (8 e). Near 'purpurissa but recognizable at a glance by the pure white apical chionesclia- 
patch of the forewing above as well as beneath. Underside deep purple, the hindwing also with a large white 
patch from costa to 2nd radial. $ larger, more purple, with the underside becoming black clistally, the upperside 
also with some increase of the black. Weyland Mountains (Dutch New Guinea. 
B. Antenna of $ simple (Aeolochroma sens, str.) 
Ae. amethystina Warr. (4 a). Very distinct from all known species in its crenulate margins, the pale amethysti- 
green shades accompanying the lines, variegated red and pale grey underside, etc. The $ is larger than the 
(L less deep purple, with the green admixture increased, the white discal spots less developed. Described 
from the Owen Stanley Range, subsequently found in the mountains of Dutch New Guinea. 
Ae. modesta Warr. Above similar to a very small, weakly marked viridimedia, but with the distal modesta. 
margin of the forewing more bent. Beneath devoid of the bright colouring of the rest of the group, grey, with 
dark irroration, the hindwing in its distal half nearly as in the allies, but with the postmedian line and the 
border less deep black. Upper Aroa River, British New Guinea, 
Ae. intima Prout (4 a). Rather longer-winged than prasina and viridimedia, the £ larger. Both sexes intima. 
above more strongly marked, the <$ green, with blackish, red-mixed band in proximal half of median area and 
a patch of the same colouring in the outward bend of the postmedian (which is stronger than that of prasina ), 
the $ more largely reddish, the forewing anteriorly pale-green, on both wings with interrupted pale-green band 
outside the postmedian line. Both sexes usually with some white admixture; beneath without the black markings 
of prasina and viridimedia, remaining red in these positions. Dutch New Guinea. 
Ae. viridimedia Prout. Very near prasina (8c), but with the median area of the forewing broader from viridimedia. 
the costa to 3rd radial, then more suddenly narrowing, concolorous with the rest of the wing, only with quite 
narrow red and black shading close to the antemedian line; cell-spot generally smaller. $ more mixed with 
red-brown than that of prasina. Underside in both sexes less strongly marked than in prasina. Biagi, Mambare 
River, British New Guinea. Also from Dutch New Guinea. 
Ae. bakeri Prout. Smaller than prasina (34 mm). Forewing with margin slightly more crenulate, lakeri. 
more bent at the 3rd radial; median area broadened anteriorly, bounded at the costa by black spots, only darkened 
posteriorly and at its margins; the pale mid-terminal spot very conspicuous. Hindwing with a whitish spot out¬ 
side the cell-spot, nearly as in amethystina. Underside similar to that of intima (4 a). Dinawa, British New Guinea. 
Ae. turned T. P. Luc. (8i) Closely like a small viridimedia with large cell-spot on forewing above and tumeri. 
beneath. A rather conspicuous black mark on the 2nd discocellular of the forewing and (especially in the <§) 
a blue-white admixture in hind part of postmedian area. Base of hindwing in both sexes somewhat irrorated 
with reddish. Forewing beneath with a more extended white patch outside the cell-spot than in the allies. 
Queensland. 
Ae. venia Prout. Close to prasina (8e), but smaller (41—42 mm). Forewing more vivid, more yellowish venia. 
green; basal patch less darkened; median area less narrowed posteriorly, its anterior part green. Hindwing 
slightly more rounded than in prasina, as far as the postmedian line predominantly flesh-colour. Underside 
without the dark proximal suffusions of prasina ; forewing with the blackish subterminal shade less extended; 
hindwing with the postmedian line straight or nearly so. Nomnagihe, Dutch New Guinea. 
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