DYSPHANIA. By L. B. Prout. 
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The name-typical <$ is a rare form, with the markings creamy whitish, the band of the forewing irregularly 
broadened, a small white spot present in the cell of the hindwing and 3 very small, isolated outer spots representing 
the band. — ab. mars Bsd. is said to have the ,,forewing with a point and some bands white, hindwing base mars. 
with a white spot, a more or less obsolete luteous outer band“. — (J-ab. albiniacula Th.-Mieg differs from typical albimacula. 
poeyii in lacking the 3 outer spots of the hindwing. Thus it resembles ab. bernsteinii except in colour. — ab. 
auctata Th.-Mieg (7 f) is in the almost identical with broad-banded confluens <$<$. Occasional $$ which auctata. 
Thierry-Mieg refers here have in addition 3 very vague white spots 11 mm from the apex (vestiges of the half- 
banc! of bicolor and kiihnii). — J-ab. bernsteinii Feld, has the band of the forewing yellow, often continued bernsteinii. 
behind the 2nd submedian, the outer spots usually present, the hindwing with a yellow spot in the cell. A 
remnant of the outer band of the hindwing persists on the underside only. — ab. auriplena Th.-Mieg has the auriplena. 
markings yellow, as in bernsteinii , but more extended, especially in the $, which may be likened to a yellow- 
marked bicolor. In the <$ the outer band of the hindwing is narrower, more or less interrupted at the veins. 
- §-ab. agorius Bsd. (6 e) is a rare form, with the yellow markings so greatly extended and confluent as to agorius. 
give the impression of a distinct species. — All the above forms were described from Waigeu, but the similar 
New Guinea forms do not require separate names. As the specimen standing in Bastelberger’s collection as 
poeyii (6 e) does not correspond to any of them, I name it bastelbergeri ab. nov. (6 e, as poeyi) Transitional bastelber- 
between the more simply marked forms and bicolor, the band of the forewing being small and white, the yellow rjeri ' 
band of the hindwing present, but short and narrow. — ab. flavifrons Strand has the white central band of flavifrons. 
the fore wing continued (bent proximad) behind the submedian vein, the yellow band of the hindwing repre¬ 
sented by 3 isolated spots. I have seen a $ from Humboldt Bay. 
D. centralis Rothsch. is related to poeyii, but has on the fore wing only a short, bluish-white spot centralis. 
in the end of the cell and generally a more distally placed dot or spot (variable), detached from it, in celhde 3. 
The hindwing is very distinct in having a large, irregularly-shaped central orange patch, containing the narrow 
black cell-spot. British New Guinea (type) and Sariba Island. 
D. an da man a Moore (7 a) is recognized at once by the broad yellow proximal band of the forewing, andamana. 
- ab. quadriplagiata Bastelb. forms the transition to the following aberration, the yellow half-band of the latter quadripla- 
being indicated by 2 isolated yellow spots. — ab. transgressa Bastelb. (7a). Hindwing with the subcostal yellow iran ^/ J . lafa ' 
marking above and beneath extended and distally running out, irregularly bandwise, into the middle of the 
wing. This species is confined to the Andamans. 
D. bellona Walk. (= ludifica Swinh .) (6 f) is the fust of a group of species with the militaris type bellona. 
of proximal markings and of coloration. It is characterized by the very broad and scarcely interrupted blackish 
border of the hindwing. Burma. — ab. lunulata Btlr. has the border of the hindwing more interrupted with lunulata. 
yellow spots near its proximal margin. — roepstorffi Moore ( = caeruleoplaga Bastelb.) (7 e) is a rather smaller roepstorffi. 
race from the Andamans, generally rather deeper orange. Hindwing with a row of subconfluent blue-grey 
spots on the proximal part of the blackish border. 
D. andersonii Moore, also from Burma (Mergui), is a very scarce species, differing from bellona in andersonii. 
having the proximal markings reduced to isolated spots, in part obsolete, the cell-spot of the hinclwing small, 
the white subapical band of the fore wing wanting, etc. 
D. militaris L. (= abrupta Walk.) (6 d). This well-known species is best distinguished from its militaris. 
nearest allies by its larger size, its large, roundish cell-spots, that of the hindwing not confluent with the one 
behind it, and by having the oblique antemedian half band of the forewing more macular and terminating 
in a rounded spot behind the base of the 2nd median vein. The moth flies slowly by day and is evidently 
distasteful to birds. The larva is yellow (not described in detail), the pupa pale brown, with conspicuous black, 
eye-like spots on the head. Linne’s type was probably from S. China, but I do not think the forms from N. 
India ( abrupta Walk.), need be separated. Forms from the Shan States, Siam and even N. Borneo, Java and 
Bali also agree well. — ab. scyllea Swinh. resembles the Hainan race, having no dark band on the thorax 
nor proximal band on either wing. ,,India“. — ab. nigromarginata Bastelb. (7 e) has the black terminal 
spots of the hindwing confluent from the apex nearly to the anal angle. — ab. siamensis Bastelb. (7 a) has also 
a rather well bordered hindwing, but has the band proximal to it nearly obsolete and the fore wing almost as 
in the following. — abnegata Prout has the proximal markings slender, the abdomen not, or scarcely dark- dbnegata. 
belted. In particular the oblique streak from near the base of the hindmargin of the forewing is obsolete or 
vestigial. Hainan. — selangora Stvinh. (7 a) has the proximal markings much further reduced, the cell-spot selangora. 
of the hindwing very small, or even absent. Malay Peninsula. Should perhaps be merged with the following. 
— sagana Druce, from Cochin China and Cambodia, has the proximal markings obsolete, cell-spot of hindwing sagana. 
extremely small, its apical and subterminal dark markings also reduced. — isolata Warr. (= adempta Bastelb.) isolata. 
scyllea . 
nigromairji- 
nata. 
siamensis . 
