COMELLA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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C. plagalis Fldr. (51 h) is easily recognizable by the very dark orange bands being expanded into plagalis. 
enormous spots. That of the forewing follows from the anal angle for a short distance the proximal margin. 
Aru Islands. — sobah Pag., from the Moluccas, New Guinea, Buru, and Waigeu is probably only a form sobah. 
of this species with somewhat narrower bands, which, however, is not sharply definable according to the author 
himself, since the shape of the band is not constant. Here the colouring of the bands is mostly more orange-red 
than orange-yellow. 
C. plioxantha Kirsch. (51 h), from the Island of Mysol (Moluccas), has the band of the forewing above plioxantha. 
oviform, whilst beneath it forms a large triangle with its base on the proximal margin. Hindwing above quite 
yellow except narrow dark margins. 
C. erycinoides Fldr. (51 h). Band of forewing club-shaped broad from the centre of the costal margin erytinoides. 
to the anal angle, where it ends pointed; its proximal edge is concave,the distal edge extending near the margin 
of the wing, parallel to it. Band of hindwing narrow, parallel to the margin. Beneath the bands are brick-red. 
Ternate, Halmaheira, Batjan. 
C. nigrescens Btlr. Forewing with a broad, oval, orange-red oblique spot reaching neither to the nigrescens. 
costal nor proximal margins. Hind wing above before the discal cell with a reddish spot being proximally faded. 
Forewing beneath dark chocolate-brown transversely striated in a light red, with a very bright yellow spot 
shaped like that of the upper surface, distally bordered with black. Hindwing beneath just as brown with 
a semi-circular, proximally faded median stripe, likewise bordered with black. Hindwing in the $ above unspotted, 
beneath with a complete row of silvery blue spots. Expanse of wings: 33 mm. Salomons. 
C. nenia Drc. (51 h) resembles the preceding, but the hindwing above is uni-coloured blackish-brown, nenia. 
beneath only with a silvery grey marginal band. Salomons. 
C. scotti Me L. The spot of the forewing is here split into two, the upper one of which is near the seoiti. 
apex, the lower at the proximal margin. Band of hindwing broad. Beneath the wings are lighter, posteriorly 
with 3 undulate brown stripes. Cape York. (This species is not before me; perhaps a Cleis l). 
C. versicolor Fldr. (51 h). Upper surface with large orange discal spots, on the forewing more oval, versicolor. 
on the hindwing rounder. Under surface honey-coloured with a brown marginal band bordered with black; 
forewing with a black oblique band enclosing small white dots. New Guinea, Salawatti. 
C. hypoleuca Btlr. (51 i). Upper surface entirely like that of versicolor, but beneath bright yellow hypoleuca. 
with a brick-red marginal band and without the black oblique band of the forewing. Salomons. 
C. biplagiata Btlr. (= biplagata Pag.). Like hypoleuca (51 i), but the orange spot on the forewing biplagiata. 
above pear-shaped. Beneath in the cell of the forewing instead of the fine dots of hypoleuca larger black spots, 
similar ones also at the cell-end of all the wings; the red marginal band of the hindwing beneath scantily 
strewn with black. Very much like the preceding. Salomons. 
C. miokensis Pag. (51 i). Forewing yellow with a broad dark distal margin, and in the $ with a miokensis. 
yellowish apical diffuse patch; under surface similar, the dark marginal band tinted red with a row of small 
whitish marginal spots. Bismarck Archipelago. 
7. Genus: Cornelia Pag. 
This genus being better known by the (obsolete) name of Tyndaris Fldr. presumably only contains 
1 species; it is easily recognizable by the scent-organ of the exhibiting a vesicular elevation at the convex 
proximal margin of the forewing. The cavity of this vesicle is on the under surface covered with hairs, 
and corresponding to it on the hindwing above a reflecting lustrous surface along the costa. 
C. laetifica Fldr. ( = erycinata Whr.) (51 i) is in the on both surfaces honey-coloured, towards laetifica. 
the margin darker; at the apex of the forewing a blackish burn. Beneath the hindwing exhibits 3 lustrous 
silvery transverse chains edged with orange, the forewing shows some similar small spots. New Guinea, Aru 
Islands, Salawatti, Mysol, Waigeu, Bismarck Archipelago, and Key Islands. — In ab. astigmata ah. nov. (51 i) astigmata. 
which I figure from German New Guinea, the $ is without the black apical spot of the forewing, and in ab. 
masculina ab. nov. (51 i) from the same habitat this spot is also present in the $ which, however, is without masculina. 
the dark margin of the hindwing. — Not rare. 
Alphabetical List 
with reference to the original descriptions of the forms of the Indo-Australian Callidulidae. 
*) signifies that the form is 
abisara Call. Btlr. Trans. Linn. Soc. Loud. (2) 1, p. 558. 
anan Cleis Pag. Jahrb. Nassau. Ver. Nat. 39, p. 113. 
anchora Pter. Btlr. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 20, p. 399. 
arctata Cleis Btlr. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 19, p. 394. 
aruana Cleis Btlr. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 19, p. 395. 
astigmata Com. Seitz, Macrolep. 10, p. 495. * 
also figured at the place cited. 
I atata Cleis Swh. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1909, p. 95. 
I atkinsoni Her. Mr. Lepid. Atkins, p. 21. * 
| attenuata Call. Mr. Lepid. Atkins, p. 21. 
aurantiaca Cleis Pag. Iris 1, p. 43. * 
aureola Cleis Swh. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 16, 1905, 
p. 149. 
