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ANISOZYGA. By L. B. Prout. 
absona. 
exalbata. 
polyleuco¬ 
tes. 
adornata. 
fascinans. 
pieroides. 
dentifera. 
pacifica. 
insperata. 
erotyla. 
polyglena. 
char run,. 
isogamia. 
erymnodes. 
aphrias. 
A. absona Warr. (10 d). rather variable, especially in the size of the apical spot of the hindwing. $ 
polymorphic, unless the $$ of some other species are at present confused with it; the markings pretty constant 
in shape, but rather variable in width. Unfortunately I have not seen any $ from the D’Entrecasteaux, whence 
came Warren’s type (Fergusson Island), though a $ has since been received from Goodenough Island; hence 
I abstain from naming the forms. On the Louisiades several colour-forms occur, the markings either pale (as 
in beatrix, 4 e) or light orange-rufous, or red-brown or dark purple-fuscous. The first 3 forms are more or less 
general, the last is only known to me from the Louisiades and (1 example) from New Ireland, but 3 specimens 
from Rook Island are also like it except for the absence of the mark at abdominal margin. — ab. exalbata Warr., 
1 <$ from the Arfak Mountains, has the white markings greatly extended, somewhat creamy, strongly recalling 
polyleucotes (4 c). The species is distributed from Mysol to the Bismarcks. 
A. polyleucotes Prout (4 c). d- Rather larger than absona, the hindwing slightly broader, the markings 
not quite so creamy, even more extended than in exalbata, especially on the hindwing, where the green of the 
median area has almost vanished; apical spot of hindwing shadowy above, blackish beneath. Snow Mountains. 
A. adornata Prout. $. Still purer white than polyleucotes , not larger than absona (10 d), both wings with 
a clean white basal patch, hindwing with the green anterior spot larger and less broken than in ’polyleucotes 
(4 c), a reddish subapical dash, larger and longer than that of stellijera (4 c). Snow Mountains and Fak-Fak, 
Dutch New Guinea. 
A, fascinans T. P. Luc. ($ = dentata Warr.). $ rather brighter green than ionias (10 d); forewing with the 
large cell-spot of absona (10 d); hindwing with the subapical patch white, containing a narrow (perhaps variable) 
dark streak; both wings with the subterminal white markings strong between the 3rd radial and 2nd median 
(here shaped as in commaculata, 4 c), elsewhere slight, except at costal margin of forewing. $ like that of ab¬ 
sona (10 d), except that the dark mark at abdominal margin is wanting. Queensland. 
A. pieroides Walk. (= calcinata Feld., $ = scitissimaria Walk.) (lOd). The type of the genus and an 
easily recognized species, at least in the $; the <$ shows similar colour variations to that of the allied absona. 
The larvae are found in gardens on roses and it was the breeding of this species which first established positively 
the extraordinary sexual dimorphism of the group. — ab. (?) dentifera Strand, founded on a $ without locality, 
has the wing-tegulae and the entire proximal area of the forewing mixed with reddish, the cell-spot reddish 
without white admixture. — pieroides is widely distributed in Queensland and Felders type of calcinata was 
from Clarence River. — pacifica Feld, is based on a $ said to be from Fiji. As it looks exactly like a rather 
broad-winged pieroides with pale markings I suspect an error of locality, but it is still possible that it represents 
a race. 
A. insperata Walk. (10 e) is a pretty species, of a brighter and more opaque green than pieroides. <$ 
with a broad, nearly straight white postmedian line, which broadens posteriorly. $ with the borders pale, nar¬ 
rower and more deeply excavated than those of pieroides, the fore wing with a slender antemedian line. Larva 
rough, brown, the lateral processes oblique, sometimes green, a white spot on side of 8th abdominal segment. 
On Exocarpus cupressiformis. Queensland to Victoria and Tasmania. 
A. erotyla Turn, differs from insperata <$ in having the postmedian line very slender and curved, bi¬ 
furcating towards hindmargin. Brisbane, 1 <$. The Tring Museum also possesses a $, Dawson district, Queens¬ 
land. 
A. polyglena Prout (12 a). A beautiful and somewhat isolated species, with large purple-black, white- 
bordered distal spots. Dutch New Guinea: Weyland Mountains, only 2 <$<$ known. 
A. charma Prout (10 e) is the smallest of the group and the only one yet known from Borneo. The <$ 
has the white distal spots placed somewhat as in aphrias, but the hindwing posteriorly is quite different. A $ 
from Mt. Harriet, Andamans, is larger, with the terminal white patches of the hindwing joined into one large 
patch, the underside with some dark subterminal markings which the $ lacks. 
A. isogamia Prout (4 c). Sexes alike, very like the of aphrias ( 10 e) but somewhat more translucent, veins 
strongly white-dotted, white costal edge narrower, much more strongly dark-speckled, cell-spot of forewing 
reduced. The venation differs, isogamia having the 3rd discocellular acutely angled inward, almost as in the 
genus Oxychora. Mount Goliath. 
A. erymnodes Turn. In structure similar to aphrias, sex-dimorphism similar but rather less extreme, 
d with the markings rather more reduced than in isogamia and aphrias, much more mixed with red-brown; 
veins dotted as in isogamia ; no white on abdominal margin. Queensland: Cedar Bay, Kuranda and Mackay. 
A. aphrias Meyr. (= fragmentata Warr.) (10 e). On the see our notes under isogamia, the 2nd and 
3rd discocellulars here form a continuous and moderate curve. The $ has the markings mixed with reddish 
brown, the cell-mark narrow, the terminal markings more or less confluent along the distal margin. British 
and Dutch New Guinea and Goodenough Island. 
