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DYSPHANIA. By L. B. Prout. 
floridensis. on Vella Lavella. —• floridemsis Prout, founded on the only example from Florida Island yet known to me, is 
probably a mere aberration of the preceding; it lacks the spot behind the cell of the hindwing. The only specimen 
splendida. from Kulambangra (Mus. Tring) is similar. — splendida Bastelb. (6 b) is easily recognizable from the figure, 
magnified, and is confined to N. Queensland. — magnifica Swinh. (6 b) differs from splendida in the ampler orange spots 
of the hindwing and has the white spots mostly clearer, less suffused with blue. The Tring Museum has it from 
fenestrata. Mackay, ,,Brisbane district “ and Mount Dryander. — fenestrata Swains. (— velitaris Guen.) looks so different 
from the other Australian forms that I suspect it may be a separate species. On both wings the whitish patches 
proximally ond distally to the cell-spot are much extended, behind the cell broadly confluent; the subterminal 
chalybeata. spots are narrow, rather differently placed. North Australia: Eureka, Port Darwin, etc. — chalybeata Btlr. (6 b). 
from Cape York, is a slight modification of fenestrata, with the pale patches not quite so extended, the cell- 
mark of the hindwing small, its orange subterminal band reduced. 
hyperedys. D. liyperedys Prout represents the preceding group on S. Christoval but is very distinct. Thorax 
above mostly black; abdomen yellow, not dark-belted; the white spot at middle of hindmargin of fore wing 
and the white patch of hindwing as ample as in cyane (6 c), the subterminal spots confluent into a sinuous band 
from the 1st subcostal to the hindmargin. 
endoleuca. D. endoleuca Prout. Smaller than cyane (6 c), the thorax in front yellow, as in teutons. Forewing 
with the costal margin rather more rounded than in cyane, the pale markings somewhat as in leucophorata (6 a) 
but all white, the proximal streak rather broad. Hindwing nearly as in cyane, but with the orange markings 
nearer to the margin. Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea also from Waigeu; only the $ known. 
cyane. D. cyane Cram. (= spectabilis Walk.) (6 c) is one of the largest species and cannot be mistaken for 
any other. I only know it from the South Moluccas, and suspect that other records are based on error. 
D. pilosa was named from the rough orange hair on the S abdomen and is the only Dysphania which 
pilosa. can compete with cyane in point of size. — pilosa Btlr. (6 e) has the pale markings almost entirely suppressed 
flavieorpus. in the B and often even in the $. Shortlands (type) and Bougainville. — flavicorpus Warr. Abdomen generally 
less blackened above. Both sexes with broader orange markings on the hindwing, the $ also on both wings 
with distinct whitish markings, approximately corresponding to those of cyane, but more variable, generally 
gloriosa. more restricted or interrupted. Choiseul. — gloriosa Prout is a very large and extremely handsome form, or 
closely related species, both sexes with a clear white band (broadest on the $) in and behind the end of the 
cell and the orange markings of the hindwing still further developed. Abdomen as in pilosa. Vella Lavella. 
regnatrix. — regnatrix Warr. has also white central bands, at least in the $, but much narrower than those of gloriosa, the 
imperatrix. orange markings not more developed than in pilosa. Kulambangra (type $) and Ranonga (1 $). — imperatrix 
Warr., founded on a $ from Ysabel, is probably a mere aberration of flavicorpus, intermediate between the 
submutata. normal forms and regnatrix. — submutata subsp. nov., from Guadalcanar, reverts to a form very similar to 
name-typical pilosa, but has fragmentary white markings even in the B ( a t least a spot in the end of each cell) 
and commonly develops an orange spot in the abdominal area of the hindwing 2 or 3 mm proximal to the 
submarginal band. Abdomen on an average with more extended orange, pectus often with some orange admixture 
•5 SB and 5 in Mus. Tring. 
D. poeyii is a very variable species, especially in the and is somewhat difficult to arrange satis¬ 
factorily, inasmuch as the variation is partly individual and partly racial. The body is similar to that of pilosa 
and the wings have also the same deep purple colour. The SS and some $ forms have merely a white or yellow 
band on the forewing, proximal to the middle. The $$ have commonly much more extended white and yellow 
markings. It is chiefly an island species but has also been taken in some numbers in Dutch New Guinea. — 
cyanopiera. cyanoptera Pagenst. (7 f, as remota) is the correct name for the race from the North Moluccas, with the band 
white, generally very narrow, often interrupted at the median vein, though the type specimen, from Batjan, 
confluens. was not at all extreme. — confluens Warr., from Obi, has the band broader, nearly always white, but in one 
example in the Tring Museum yellow. The as also that of cyanoptera, has often an incomplete orange band 
binotata. on the hindwing. — binotata Walk. ( = auristriga Warr.) ( 7 f), from Ceram, has the band moderate, nearly always 
luteopicta. yellow. In Walker’s type (a $) it is slightly interrupted, in Warren’s (a <$) continuous. — §-ab. luteopicta 
Walk., also from Ceram, has the yellow considerably increased, including a distal band on the hindwing. - 
kiihnii. kiihnii Pagenst., from Aru, was founded on the $, which (so far as my experience goes) differs almost constantly 
from f. bicolor in having the yellow outer band of the hindwing interrupted or much weakened in cellule 3. 
Forms without this band — similar to the <$ — do also occur. Aru SB are quite similar to confluens-, the white 
decoloratu- band, however is more often prolonged posteriorly. — ab. decoloratula Strand, given as doubtfully from 
la - Key, but probably from Aru, is like kiihnii with an additional dirty-white spot present near the base of the 
remota. forewing. — remota Walk, is another race with the band in the B narrow (though not so extreme as in cyan- 
bicolor. optera), white, occusionally yellow. - bicolor Warr. (7 f, as kiihnii) is the $ to remota and is recognizable by 
the extension of the white markings and the presence on the hindwing of a white or yellow spot in the 
poeyii. cell and an uninterrupted yellow distal band. — poeyii Guer., from Waigeu, is very variable in both sexes. 
