CHRYSOCRASPEDA. By L. B. Prout. 
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tered purple irroration; forewing further with costal margin, ill-defined basal and median bands and costal, 
central and hindmarginal spots near the termen, cell-spot indistinct; hindwing with the white, black-ringed 
cell-spot placed on an incomplete purple median band, the subterminal maculation approximately as on fore- 
wing. Underside with similarly placed, but weak and confused, dusky markings. Paloe, W. Celebes: Lindoe, 
3700 feet (type) and Koelawi, 3100 feet (J. P. A. Kalis), 3 S3 in the Tring Museum. 
Ch. cambogiodes Prout (17 d). Rather bright yellow, with moderate irroration and a simple pattern, cambogiodes. 
somewhat recalling some American Eois (Cambogia ). Underside paler and not irrorated, the cell-dots and curved 
postmedian weaker, the broad costal suffusion more vinaceous. Mount Goliath. 1 3- 
Ch. rothschildi IP arr. (15 h) is of a similar yellow, but has the apex of the forewing sharper, some bright rothschildi. 
red markings on the proximal part of its hindmargin and a most remarkable pattern of black, white and red 
on the inner half of the hindwing. British New Guinea: Upper Aroa River (type) and Mount Kebea. 
Ch. lilacina W arr. (17 d). Both wings strongly bent in the middle, the forewing looking still more so lilacina. 
on account of the dark mark which runs out into the yellow fringe. The dark basal patch, elongate yellow cell- 
spots and pale violet-grey distal suffusions are further distinctive. British New Guinea. I know only $$, but 
cannot associate it with any other Chrysocraspeda. 
Ch. iole Swinh. (17 d). Generally larger than most Chrysocraspeda, quite different in pattern from all iole. 
the preceding and apparently not very variable, the $ more vinaceous. Only known from the Kliasis. 
Ch. fruhstorferi sp. n. (17 e). Similar to the darkest aberrations of iole, the forewing and the proximal fruhstorferi. 
and distal areas of the hindwing almost uniformly suffused with the purplish drab colour. Possibly a race; 
that the termen of the forewing looks somewhat less bent is partly, but not entirely, due to the fact that the 
fringe is as strongly spotted at all the veins as at the 1st median. Further differs in that the yellow antemedian 
line of the forewing is angled in the cell and forms at the angle a conspicuous spot which nearly reaches the cell- 
spot, the oblique line is extremely slender and the subterminal of both wings obsolete. W. Java: Mt. Tjikorai, 
4000 feet (H. Frtihstorfer), the type 3 in the British Museum. Intermediate (except in colour) towards the 
following. 
Ch. fulviplaga Swinh. (17 e) differs from iole in its brighter colour, smaller cell-spot of the forewing, fulviplaga. 
loss or reduction of the distal yellow pattern, etc. Also from the Khasis. 
Ch. euryodia Prout. Coloration of inundata (17 e), shape much less irregular, forewing with the trans- euryodia. 
verse yellow band much broader, isolating a less ample apical patch, hindwing with the white cell-dot more 
minute, the yellow border broader and much more regular. Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mountains, only the 
type $ known. 
Ch. ignita Warr. (17 e). Possibly a remarkable form of cruoraria with the dark area of the forewing ignita. 
greatly extended, so as to leave only the termen, part of the costal edge and a cell-spot yellow, all with some 
bright red bordering. New Guinea: Biagi and Mount Goliath. 
Ch. orgalea Meyr. (17 e), to judge from the only known specimen, a 3 from Pulo Laut, is one of the orgalea. 
smallest Chrysocraspeda (16 mm). Forewing with the termen curving to become extremely oblique; hindwing 
rather narrow, termen produced to a blunt central angle. Dull purple, the yellow markings consisting on the 
forewing of an irregular border (projecting inwards in the middle and near costa) and a postmedian spot at the 
3rd radial, on the hindwing of an irregular border, twice expanded in anterior half, very slight in posterior. 
Ch. cruoraria Warr. (17 e). Approaches inundata in shape, though less extreme. The dark parts consid- cruoraria. 
erably darker than in that species and euryodia. the apical half of the forewing variously mottled with this 
dark colour, bright red and yellow, the obliquely placed, clearer yellow band (complete or interrupted, but 
never very sharply defined) showing the near relationship to those. Described from Queensland, known also 
from New Guinea and New Britain. The late Mr. F. P. Dodd, a very good observer, stated that they, and even 
aurimargo, were all forms of one extraordinarily variable species, but gave no evidence. A remarkable Kuranda 
series which he sent to Oberthur offers some justification for the surmise, but the differences in shape are 
puzzling, there is no evidence of the occurrence of true inundata in Australia (see below) and one of the Kuranda 
groups shows little sign of linking up with the others. I have therefore conserved Warren's names and added 
others for the principal recurrent forms. — ab. porphyrogonia nov. (? sp. div.) (17 f) has the distal area, costal porphyrogo- 
margins and base dull purple, the rest of the proximal areas yellow, with purple-red markings, the best developed nia - 
being a thick, angular antemedian line. Kuranda, 3 S3 an d 1 $; also a 3 from Port Darwin in my collection. 
The probable development of this strikingly dissimilar form from typical cruoraria is shown by 3 very inter¬ 
esting specimens: a 3 has retained much of the dark proximal shading, especially on the forewing, but becomes 
more mottled with red in the distal part of the hindwing; 2 $$ which seem evidently to belong to it (as all 
