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particularly in the terminal area of both wings; yellow patches of forewing ill-defined, commonly encroached 
upon by some reel irroration, the posterior one sometimes almost obsolete; subterminal band rather strong, 
nearly always marked with some dark dots or dashes on the veins. Assam, Bhotan, East Pegu, Tonkin and 
perhaps Hainan; the type from the Khasia Hills in the Tring Museum. -— insulata Warr., from the Liu-Kiu insulaia. 
Islands and Formosa, has the subterminal band nearly as strong as in the preceding, the yellow patches 
strongly developed. - — biflavata Warr. has the yellow patches generally strong, subterminal band almost biflavata. 
or altogether obsolete, apex of forewing not or scarcely yellow. Borneo (type), Sumatra, Java, Sulu. Speci¬ 
mens from Nias and Penang begin to show an increase of yellow in the terminal area, particularly at the 
apex. The form from Palawan is possibly another intermediate race. 
E. atomata Warr. Distal margin of forewing straighter. <$ much more deeply coloured than biflavata, the atomaia. 
yellow patches more numerous but small and ill-defined; $ yellow. Both sexes with a small blackish cell-dot 
on forewing, the common median line dark and dentate, a prominent postmedian spot on 2nd radial. Java, rare. 
E. unipuncta Warr. (2 i). Coloration and markings • nearly as in atomata ; distal margin of forewing unipuncla. 
rather more oblique. Differs markedly in the large, pale-centred cell-mark of the forewing and the larger, blacker 
postmedian spot; moreover the dentate median line is thicker, especially in the $, and bears on the hindwing a 
black dot at the bifurcation of the 2nd subcostal and 1st radial. Underside very coarsely and heavily irrorated. 
New Guinea, the D’Entrecasteaux and Solomon Islands. 
E. ludovicata is the most widely distributed species and decidedly variable, yet to the practised eye 
rarely difficult to recognize. The antemedian and median lines of the forewing are almost invariably marked 
by blackish spots on the costa, the median line, though weak (unless marked by dark vein-spots), is nearly 
always traceable, and then shows a stronger angulation before the middle than in any allied species; the hind¬ 
wing generally shows a costal spot beyond the middle, especially large and strong in most $$. The variation is 
partly geographical, but in part too inconstant to admit of my naming the forms. — ludovicata Guen. (2 i) ludovicata. 
($ = aureliata Guen.) may be used as the name for all the forms from India, Hainan, Formosa, the Malay 
Peninsula and the Sunda Islands, the GS red, moderately blotched, submarginal band darkened, the 5$ 
orange, heavily marked. — enantia subsp. nov., from Celebes and Sula, has the sexes more nearly alike, the enantia. 
G6' being more mottled with yellow, the $9 with red; the red is of a more rosy tone and there are few or no 
blackish markings excepting at the costal margin of the forewing, the $ consequently presenting a very dif¬ 
ferent appearance. Type from Celebes, in the Tring Mu sen m. On the Moluccas and Mafor the <3$ are deeper 
coloured than in the majority of typical enantia , but I do not propose to separate them racially. — cupreata cupreata. 
Warr. is a small form from the Tenimber Islands, the $ otherwise similar to name-typical ludovicata , the 
cj very distinct in its nearly uniform irroration of three colours, yellow, red and grey. — rubra Rothsch. has rubra. 
the G almost uniform deep rosy, even the yellow apex of the hindwing usually almost entirely wanting; mar¬ 
kings shadowy, excepting the blackish costal spots of the forewing; £ very like that of typical ludovicata. Dutch 
and British New Guinea. — salomonis subsp. nov. from the Solomon Islands, has the rather small, with salomonis. 
yellow patches as in biflavata, the $ often rather small, intermediate in coloration between ludovicata and 
enantia. Type from Bougainville, in the Tring Museum. Similar forms occur on Woodlark and St. Aignan. 
— fulvida subsp. nov. is a small form from Rossel Island, the <3$ yellow coarsely sprinkled nearly throughout iulvida. 
with red, the transverse markings very weak, the nearest those of the preceding race but brighter, with 
the spots of the median line enlarged on the 3rd radial and the median veins, obsolete before and behind these, 
the subterminal spots posteriorly reduced. Type in the Tring Museu m. 
E. rubrifusa Warr. (2 i). Ground-colour of £ approaching that of ludovicata rubra, wings rather more rubrifusa. 
elongate, yellow postmedian spots (placed somewhat as in biflavata) standing out very prominently. The costal 
edge of the forewing is blackened, but the characteristic costal spots of ludovicata are wanting, as also the ante- 
median and median lines. The only known $ is similar to that, of enantia, but with the markings thicker and 
rather ill-defined. Kina Balu, N. Borneo. — multiplagiata subsp. nov. has in addition a yellow apex to the fore- muliipla- 
wing, a large yellow spot behind the 2nd median near its base, a smaller one near the end of the cell and on 
the hindwing two large spots between the radials, besides other small spots and wisps. Costal margin of fore¬ 
wing sprinkled with blackish. Ramboekers, Tondano, N. Celebes. Type in the Tring Museu m. 
E. sanguinifusa Warr. (3 a) is perhaps another local race of rubrifusa. $ forewing with similar spots to sanguinifu- 
those of multiplagiata, but in addition with an ill-defined yellow basal patch, costal margin more strongly 
blackened, subterminal dark band indicated; hindwing nearly as in rubrifusa, but darker. $ generally distingui¬ 
shable from those of the ludovicata races by having a stronger dark apical patch and a less sharply angulated 
median line. Dutch New Guinea to Gooclenough Island. 
E. fumicosta Warr. (2 i). G forewing marked nearly as in multiplagiata and sanguinifusa , but with jumicosta. 
the costal margin more broadly black-mixed and the entire distal area (excepting the small yellow marginal 
