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EUMELEA. By L. B. Prout. 
spots) darkened; hindwing with numerous not very sharply defined yellow spots. $ yellower than that of 
sanguinifusa, with broad and strong submarginal band but with an apical patch and most of the distal margin 
remaining yellow. Common on the Solomon Islands, Dampier Island, Rook Island and the Bismarck Archi¬ 
pelago. 
E. vulpenaria is a rather puzzling polymorphic species, which was formerly considered to embrace 
three or more distinct species. The study of the genitalia, however, reveals no difference whatever and there 
are various intergradations. The second line of the forewing is almost as thin as in biflavata and atomata but 
is gently curved anteriorly, thus intermediate between those species and the ludovicata- group. In nearly all the 
ulpenaria■ S forms the forewing beneath shows some smoky suffusion, at least in the distal area. — vulpenaria Stoll (2 h) 
is very distinct in the $ in having the upper surface strongly smoky, the lines standing out sharply in red. ^ 
reddish orange, with some smoky admixture on the lines and especially on the subterminal band. Both sexes 
flavata. show a blackish costal dot on the second line. — $-ab. flavata Moore is a lighter yellow form; subterminal 
olivacea. band generally reduced to dark spots or dashes on the veins — <J-ab. olivacea Hmps. (3 b) is of a more olive tone, 
with the lines dark grey instead of red. — vulpenaria seems to form a definite race in S. India and Ceylon, but 
fcliciata. in N. India appears occasionally (seasonally ?) among the following. — feliciata Guen. Yellow with rather uniform 
and (especially in the <J) copious red irroration, the lines and subterminal shade deeper red. No blackish costal 
spot. Forewing of S beneath with slight or moderate smoky suffusion. — Yellow aberrations of the $ ($-ab. 
luteata. luteata nov., type from Mount Wuchi, Hainan, in TringMuseu m) very rare, very distinct from ab. flavata 
florinata. in the rosy lines and subterminal band. N. India to Malay Peninsula and Hainan. — florinata Guen. (3 a) is deeper 
red in the and with broader, duller markings in the $. £ above sometimes almost unicolorous, sometimes 
with lines and distal area still darker and more smoky; beneath strongly (sometimes almost entirely) smoky. 
5 beneath with the markings predominantly smoky. Nias, Batoe Islands, Sumatra, Natuna Islands, Borneo, 
Java and Lombok. 
unilineata. E. unilineata Warr. (3 b) is a smoother-looking species, the irroration being much finer and less con¬ 
spicuous. £ delicate rosy; $ orange or yellow. First line wanting or extremely faint, second, on the contrary, 
strong except at costal margin of forewing, rather obliquely placed, little curved. Philippines and N. Borneo. 
isozyges. E. isozyges sp. nov. (2 h). Both wings light orange, with the rosy-purple irroration very uniformly dis¬ 
posed and forming an abundance of fine transverse strigulae, which are longer than those of most of the species; 
base and costal margin of forewing yellow, the costal margin blotched with dull purple near the base, then very 
finely and sparsely strigulated and dotted with the same; lines entirely wanting; cell-mark of forewing faintly 
indicated; fringes distally pale yellow. Underside slightly yellower, in places (especially on the hindwing) 
slightly suffused with pink; the irroration coarser. Philippines Islands: Baco River, South Mindoro, 3 April 
1910, the type $ and another in my collection, kindly presented by Mr. W. Schassmann; Mindanao and West 
Samar in coll. Joicey. This was evidently included by Semper in his comprehensive species “ rosalia ”. It is 
very distinct, both in appearance and in the G genitalia (which have the uncus bilobecl and a small hairy 
protuberance on the valve) from any species known to me. I had supposed — notwithstanding its totally dif¬ 
ferent superficial aspect —- that it might be the to obesata. Feld., of which I have only seen $$, but I find 
that Semper knew both sexes of obesata and that they do not differ. 
degener. E. degener Warr. (2 i). The smallest species of the genus, probably representing the following on the 
Loyalty Islands. J darker reddish, sometimes smoky, $ lighter yellow; subterminal spots generally strong, 
umbrata. especially in the $. — $-ab. umbrata Warr. is a handsome form with a dark band beyond the second line, 
on the forewing reaching the sub terminal spots, on the hindwing less extended. 
E. rosalia is another very widely distributed and variable species. <$ red, nearest that of florinata but 
of a rather brighter, more carmine colour and without smoky admixture beneath. $ dimorphic, either similar to 
the S but with more yellow admixture or bright deep yellow with the markings reddish, the second line almost as 
australicn- strongly bent as in ludovicata. — australiensis Warr. (2h) is either strikingly dimorphic in both sexes or else in- 
sls - eludes two species which have not yet been differentiated. In general smaller than the following races. Warren’s 
G type (with which, however, I associate the yellow form of the $) has the ground-colour more mixed with yellow 
than in most forms of rosalia, the markings generally distinct, apex of hindwing yellow. Queensland, perhaps 
stipata. also on the Tenimber Islands. Together with it at Cedar Bay, near Cooktown, occurs - — stipata form, nov., 
both sexes with the irroration duller purple-red or almost purple-grey, much denser, giving to the wings an al¬ 
most uniform appearance, the markings becoming very weak; apex of hindwing not yellow. The is even 
darker and more unicolorous than the $, but there is no strong dimorphism. Warren associated the $$ of this 
rosalia. form with the $ of the preceding. — rosalia Stoll. (2 h). Rather large. $ bright deep red, almost unicolorous, 
apex of hindwing sometimes yellow; transverse markings feeble or wanting. $ somewhat more mixed with 
yellow, markings better developed; occasional aberrations quite yellow, well marked. Distributed from the 
Moluccas to New Britain and I cannot at present differentiate the forms from Nias, Sumatra, Banka Island, 
