352 
HORISME. Bv L. B. Prout. 
olivata. H. olivata It T arr. (37 g). Underside similar to that of hyperytlira though scarcely so extreme, upperside 
much paler than in that, olive-tinged, with large cell-dots and costal spots. Khasis (type) and Sikkim. 
boarmiata. H. boarmiata Snell. (37 h <$, $). Described as a Collix, although its author mentions its shortish palpus. 
Founded on a pair from Lokka, Celebes. Until recently I had seen no example from Celebes, but the good 
description and figure left no doubt of its close affinity with leprosa ; now, however, I am able to study it from 
a series of over 30 received by Lord Rothschild from W. Celebes, a pair of which are here figured. Unlike some 
of the other forms, it seems that this race varies scarcely at all except sexually; no <$ shows any development 
of the white costal patches which are constant for the 10 known Ground tone fuscous; the irregular white 
dots or spots just outside the median band are not, even in the enlarged, as occurs commonly in other races 
and xylinata. Underside pale, generally very sharply marked, with strong costal spots. Of a pair from Luzon. 
inconstans. the is typical, the $ exceptionally white. inconstans subsp. nov., from Java, perhaps deserves a separate 
name, although some individuals may be hard to distinguish from the name-type. on the whole very similar 
thereto, more variable, at times showing an approach to the pale costal maculation of the $; underside rarely 
with such intense markings as in b. boarmiata. $ generally larger, sometimes as uniform as the typical the 
commoner (white-marked) form however, has the white purer and more sharply defined against a very dark 
ground-colour, the pale boundary of the postmedian on both wings nearly always marked with some clean 
white spots in its posterior part. A long series in the Tring Museum, chiefly from E. Java (loc. typ.: Singgo- 
le-prosa. langoe. Tengger, 5000 feet). One $ from Bali probably belongs here. — leprosa Hmps. (37 h), from Ceylon and 
S. India and reaching at least as far north as Mahableshwar, is nearer to inconstans than to the name-type 
and equally variable, but the ground-colour is browner and the usual forms show some small differences in the 
arrangement of the white spots, including a frequent tendency to their enlargement at the base of the forewing; 
the $$ vary much in size; the <$<$ show on the whole an increase of white admixture. Described from the 
suffum. southern slopes of the Nilgiris, ca. 3000 feet. — ab. (?) suffusa Hmps. (37 h), erected as a separate species, is a 
large form from the Nilgiri Plateau, 6700 feet, expanding about 40 mm, the type above entirely with white 
maculation, beneath suffused and rather weakly marked and with the postmedian of the hindwing less acutely 
angled. Most 9$: however, are sharply white-spotted and transitions exist, both in size and in underside. 
Such, perhaps, are single $$ from Hsipaw (Burma) and Kori (ShanStates). More surprisingly, there exists a 
Kenya and Natal representative which passes as suffusa (see Vol. 16, p. 100) but which is probably nearest to 
the Ceylon b. leprosa, to which name, on careful consideration, I give priority over the exceptional form 
grandescens. (? montic.) suffusa. - grandescens Prout, founded on a $ from Rana, Burn, is larger than any other hitherto 
known in the group ($ 43 mm, 2 34 and 36 mm), but otherwise very similar to some whitish-blotched 
forms from other countries; the blotches are the one in the cell (not reaching the costa) and the larger distal 
one at the costa. The postmedian line, at least on the forewing, shows a more pronounced subcostal indenta- 
scrantjica. tion than usual. - serangica subsp. nov., a pair from Manusela, Central Ceram (ex coll. Joicey). Expanse 
36—38 mm; more brownish, median area more uniform, pale markings light buff instead of white; patagia 
buff. Should grandescens vary in the same way as inconstans and suffusa, serangica, may be merely an aber¬ 
ration of it. 
xylinata. H. xylinata Warr. (= aorista Turn.) (37 h). Probably an eastern representative of boarmiata, but the 
postmedian of the foreAving is not. or scarcely, dentate in its anterior half and its underside is not so much 
mixed with whitish nor so intensely sharp-marked; the general range of variation, however, seems identical 
with that of inconstans, but with whitish-marked <$<$ much less infrequent. The type, a $ from Angabunga 
River, has the pale markings inconspicuous (light brown, not white); Turner's type-form, from N. Queensland, 
albipannosu. also lacks the Avhite blotches. — ab. albipannosa nov. may therefore be used to designate the Avhite-blotchecl 
form in both sexes. The species is distributed in the Mountains of British New Guinea. 
semirufata. H. semirufata Warr. (37 h). Hindwing somewhat less dentate, though noticeably sinuate. Very distinct 
in the brighter red-brown ground-colour, in places marked with pale green, and in the extremely w e a k I y 
marked underside. Very characteristic is the elongate-triangular blackening of a part of the median area post¬ 
eriorly; the white midterminal spot is variable in its size and purity, in the type from Angabunga River, 
c.rtrafumata. Avell developed. Only known from the Owen Stanley Range (sens, lat.) — ab. (?) extrafumata nov. has the 
vinaceous-tinged anterior stripe somewhat paler, the area between the postmedian and the white subterminal 
dots suffused with greyish, at least between the 1st radial and the 1st median, the white spot consequently 
obliterated. As the subterminal dots are less clean-cut, more connected into vague lunules or a lunulate-dentate 
line, it is just possible this is a separate species. Mount Tafa. Mafulu district, 8500 feet (Miss L. E. Cheesman), 
a pair in the British Museum, taken with a typical q semirufata and presenting a very different appearance, 
not only in coloration but also in the somewhat larger size and perhaps relatively broader fore wing. A worn V 
in the Tring Museum, from Biagi. entirely agrees with them, but a from Angabunga River furnishes a connecting 
