CRURIA. By Ur. K. Jordan. 
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and nearly always shorter than its distance from the margin. — transducta Walk. The lower discal spot of the iransduria. 
forewing is large, tripartite, and the band of the hindwing is strongly incurved or constricted. In the $ the 
markings of the hindwing beneath for the greater part yellowish white. Northern Moluccas: Halmaheira and 
Batjan, presumably also on Ternate and Morotai. 
D. constricta R. cb J. (2b). Similar to D. va ha; pronotum edged with black; mesonotum yellow constrida. 
with black longitudinal stripes; abdomen rough, yellow, banded with black, the apex yellow. Forewing in the 
basal area with a yellow streak which is longer than in varia and lies along the submedian; near the base of the 
cell a yellowish white spot, which is rarely indicated above in varia. Band of hindwing strongly constricted, 
anteriorly only extending to radial 1, not entering the cell, beneath unicolorous as above, but the basal spot 
pale sulphur-yellow. — A. S. Meek obtained only 2 in the Owen-Stanley range in British New Guinea at about 
2000 m. 
D. splendida. Frons pure Avhite with black median stripe; pronotum orange; mesonotum uniformly 
black, without the yellow transverse band of D. varia. Upperside of wings glossy greenish blue; spots of fore¬ 
wing white. Band of hindwing orange. Underside of hindwing entirely without basal spot or with some yellow 
scales on the costal vein. Solomon Islands. — splendida Bull. $ and $ with a broad orange band on the hind- splendida. 
wing. All the coxae with yellow hair. Costal vein of hindwing beneath with yellow scaling in the basal area. 
Guadalcanal’; found by Meek in May. — pectoralis Jord. $ and $ with broad orange band on the hindwing, pedorall s. 
Coxae black; fore coxae yellow laterally and posteriorly. Florida, Isabel and Choiseul, June, July, December 
(A. S. Meek). — dispar subsp. nov. : Band of hindwing very strongly reduced, above usually restricted to a dispar. 
spot placed at the abdominal margin, sometimes hardly indicated, always reddish orange, beneath likewise 
reduced, but not so much so as above, at the most of half the width of the black margin. The yellow belts of ab¬ 
dominal segments 5 and 6 very narrow, broadly interrupted. Coxae black, anterior ones orange laterally 
and posteriorly. £ with orange band on hindwing, but this band only half as broad as the black margin. Bougain¬ 
ville, found by Meek in some numbers in December, April and May; also on Treasury Island, in March. — re- reducta. 
ducta R. cb J. (2 b). The band of the hindwing in both sexes as strongly reduced as in the <$ of dispar. The 
lower discal spot of the forewing tripartite. Ivulambangra. 
D. chalybeata. Black, coxae orange. Wings with a strong blue gloss, when viewed oblicpiely (so that 
the eye is between light and specimen) changing from glossy blue-green to fiery red. In the the forewing 
above with a broad blue-white transverse band near the base, in the $ with a broad, anteriorly and posteriorly 
blue-white, centrally white discal band. Hindwing without markings. Bismarck Archipelago. As all our spe¬ 
cimens which have a subbasal band are $<3 and those with discal band we now consider these very different 
looking specimens to be the sexes of one species. — chalybeata Roths. ($ = amoena Roths.) (2d). Forewing beneath chalybeata. 
with I or 2 blue spots in the cell, the $ also with a cell-spot on the upperside. The band of the $ is very strongly 
narrowed anteriorly and contains 3 —4 white spots. New Pomerania. — leucidia subsp. nov. cell of forewing leucidia. 
above without a spot, beneath with a few pale blue scales; discal band only very slightly narrower anteriorly than 
in the centre, consisting of 6—7 white spots, of which the last one above is small, diffuse and dusted with blue. 
New Hanover; the not known. 
10. Genus: Cruria Jord. 
Frons with a conical process, which is truncate and has an elevate rim at the apex. Eyes naked. Antennae 
slightly incrassate between centre and apex, usually spotted with white. Segments l and 2 of palpi with long 
hair beneath, 3 long and porrect. Femora with rough hair on the underside, tibiae and tarsi smooth, tarsal 
segments 1—4 with 3 rows of spines. Forewing with areole, subcostal 2 far beyond it and 5 from its apex; 
radial 2 and 3 close together, median 1 on the contrary well before the lower angle of cell; cross-vein incurved 
in both wings. In the hindwing the subcostal and radial 1 stalked or from a point, radial 2 from the centre 
of cell or just above it, radial 3 from the lower angle of cell, median 1 before angle. Abdomen with light 
bands, with smooth scaling and hair, segment 1 and in the $ also 7 more or less rough-hairy. 
The markings are almost the same in all the species and often strongly reduced in the $. The fringes 
of both wings are usually white-spotted between the veins and entirely white at the apex. The forewing has 
two cell-spots, of which the proximal one is often absent, and anteriorly on the disc two bipartite spots and poste¬ 
riorly a bi- or tripartite one. Hindwing with median band, which is more or less distinctly separated into 
spots by the veins and whose anterior portion projects distad; in the $$ this band is sometimes absent. The 
costal edge of the forewing is yellow in the The genitalia are almost exactly the same in the various species. 
— Early stages only known of one species, altough the species are usually abundant. -— Australia, New 
Guinea and Timor. 
a) Coxae with grey or yellow hair. 
C. synopla. This species and C. donowani have been mixed up by most authors (with the exception 
of A. J. Turner). Boisduval’s description of donowani is so insufficient that it remains doubtful which of the 
