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CRUR1A. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
two species is donowani. Turner believes that the name should be applied to the next species. Forewing 
above in the basal area below the cell with a thin yellowish line which is continued across the thorax. Coxae 
yellow. Abdomen ringed with white, in the $ segment 7 not yellow and the claspers broadly black in the 
centre, in the $ segment 7 with a broad yellow belt. The spots of the forewing, especially the double spot 
near the lower angle of the cell, more or less strongly dusted with black. Band of hindwing less divided 
•s ynopla. up than in the other species. New South Wales to Northern Queensland. Larva on Calocasia. — - synopla 
Turn. Markings of forewing yellowish; band of hindwing about half as broad in the centre as the black mar- 
latifascia. gin. New South Wales and Southern Queensland (Brisbane district). —- latifascia subsp. nov. Markings of the 
wings purer white than in true synopla, especially the band of the hindwing, which, moreover, is about as broad 
as the black marginal band. North Queensland; type of name from Atherton, found in April or May. 
C. donowani ( = donovani auct.). Upperside of forewing without longitudinal stripe in the basal area 
beneath the cell, and mesothorax without transverse band in the centre. Coxae yellow, the posterior ones paler. 
In the d' segment 7 of abdomen and the claspers yellow, the latter with a narrow black edge. Markings of wings 
pale sulphur-yellow, those of the forewing more sharply marked than in synopla. On the forewing a streak 
of variable length in the basal area between costal edge and cell, in the cell before the centre a small spot, at the 
apex of the cell and on the disc the usual spots, the discal spot near the lower angle of the cell bipartite, its upper 
portion being small and the lower long, mostly an additional third spot below this patch; before the apex 2—3 
bluish grey dots as in the other species. Band of hindwing about half the width of the black margin, the veins 
more or less black in the band, the latter therefore more irregular at its edges than in synopla, Moreover, the 
hinder half of the band is more proximal than in synopla. On the underside the hindwing less obviously 
striped in and below the cell than in synopla. Queensland, North-West Australia and Timor. Larva on Vitis 
antarctica; brown, each segment with a white belt in which there are a number of black dots each bearing a 
donowani. long hair. — donowani Bdv. (2 f). Abdominal segments 1 —-6 banded with yellowish white; posterior coxae of $ 
yellowish grey; band of hindwing beneath usually extending to the base of the lower median vein. Queens- 
xanthosoma. land, name-type from Mackay. Occurs in the same district as synopla, at least near Brisbane. — xanthosoma 
subsp. nov. The belts of the abdomen orange-yellow, with the exception of belts 1 and 2; abdomen beneath 
(also in $) only blackish at the base of the proximal segments. Distinguished from the similar neptioides 
by the whitish colour of the proximal belts of the abdomen, the yellowish tint of the markings of the wings, 
the yellow hair of the mid and hind coxae and the absence of a basal longitudinal smear on the upperside 
of the forewing below the cell. North Province of South Australia, west of the gulf of Carpentaria, 3 <$<3 and 
timorica. 1 $ in Mus. Tring, collected between November and February. - timorica subsp. nov. Band of hindwing narrower 
than in the two previous subspecies and more distinctly interrupted at radial 1, especially in the $. Abdomen 
above banded with yellowish white, as in donowani in the segment 6 beneath almost as orange as 7, in 
the $ the entire underside of the abdomen banded with black and orange. Dili, Portuguese Timor, one pair 
found by Doherty in May. 
b) Mid and hind coxae entirely b 1 a c k. Abdo m e n always with orange 
belts. Markings of wings m u c h smaller in the $ t h a n in the 
C. neptioides. Markings of Avings Avhite; band of hindwing very strongly constricted at the loA\ r er 
angle of cell or interrupted, separated into spots by the black veins, much narrower in the $ than in the 
being sometimes only represented by some small spots or even entirely suppressed. The extreme abdominal 
edge of the hindwing, in contradistinction to donowani and synopla, remains black even if the band approaches 
neptioides. the edge very closely, at most some of the long hairs are grey. Queensland and British New Guinea. — neptioides 
Bull. (2 f). In the £ the band of the hindwing beneath is nearly as broad between the upper and loAver 
angles of the cell as the black marginal border (excl. of fringes), the cell of the hindwing bearing a withe 
spot. In the $ the band of the hindwing is separated into spots, but at the most the first spot and the 
last one are suppressed. Queensland, especially in the most northern district and on the islands off the 
papuana. coast. — papuana subsp. nov. $: Hindwing without white cell-spot above and beneath, the median band rather 
narrower than in the race from Queensland. The $ very dark, the spots very strongly reduced on both 
wings; the median band of the hindwing only represented by a few small spots or entirely obsolete. Brit¬ 
ish New Guinea; Meek collected a small series on the Aroa R. between November and March; occurs also 
at Port Moresby. 
C. darwiniensis. Markings of both wings yellow or yellowish, with the exception of the white marginal 
spots, and on the whole rather larger than in neptioides. In contradistinction to synopla. and donowani there 
is always a spot below the lower median vein of the forewing in neptioides and darwiniensis, even if the upper 
platyxantha. spot, (in front of median 1) of this double patch is absent. North Australia. — platyxantha Meyr. (= tropica 
Low.) (2 f). Markings of wings yellow. The black discocellular spot of the hindwing is nearly always pro¬ 
minent also above in the <J, as there is a yellow spot in the cell. In the $ this yelloAv cell-spot is usually 
darwinien - absent. Queensland; found by Meek south of Cooktown in large numbers. — darwiniensis Bull. (= darviniensis, 
sis ■ Hamps.) (2 f). Markings of wings much paler and rather smaller than in platyxantha ; hindwing above only 
