DANAINAE 
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EUPLOEA 
9 . Above. Forewing brown-black: dorsuin sti’aigbt, : sj^ots and dots as in male with usually an extra 
dot in the subcostal series. TTindwing as in male, but discal spots slightly laigei. 
Beneath as in male: discal spots sligldly larger: jude sireaks in area la of forewingj absent. 
Loc. Cape York 4 10 12. Thursdav Ts. 8 . Prince of Wales Is. 5 G 7. Banks Is. 2. Claudie R. 11. 
Cooktown 4 10 12. Cairns G 7 0 10 11. Kuranda 1 2 4 7 0 12. Townsville 3 4. Maekay 2 3. 
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Tills well known species is fairly conslaiit south of Cooldown, but in the extreme north many 
aberrant examjdes are met with. As some of these have been described as distinct species, Ave have found 
it necessary to figure a number of aberrations. Y e have cai'efully examined Miskiids types of E. 
dardanns^ and E. criihon (fig. 32, 33) and consider them both only aberrations of Sylvester. We have 
not. figured ]\Iiskin’s type of E. dardamts, but our fig. 31 is almost identical, except that it has slight 
Traces of sublerininal dots both above and lieneath, Avhich are wanting in the type. Fig. 30 shows the upper 
surface of two of our female cxanpiles Avln('h intergrade between darchimis and crithon. We propose 
to restrict those names to the sets of aberrations briefly described below. 
17aa. E. Sylvester Sylvester, f. dardanus Miskin. Fig. 30, 31. 
Proceedings Linncan Society New South Y^ales 1889, p. 1041 (1890). 
9 . This name Avill include all those specimens of Sylvester in which the subterminal dots of both 
Avings above and beneath, and the subcostal spot above end of cell of forcAving above, are absent. 
The liindAving has the discal .spots imperfectly doA'eloped, but ahvays shows a series of obsaired 
Avhite discal spots both above and beneath. 
Loc. Cape York 2 3 4 10. Prince of Wales Ts. 7. Banks Is. 2 3. Thursday Is. 3. 12^? 69 . 
17al). E. Sylvester Sylvester, f. crithon iSFiskin. Fig, 32, 33. 
Pi’oceedings Bimican Society New Soiith Wales 1889, p. 1042 (1890). 
cf 2. Tliis name will include all specimens of sylvesfer in Avhich the series of discal spots of hind 
Aving is absent, and typically those in Avhich the foreAving is spotless. 
Loc. Cape York 1 2 .3 12. Darnley Ts. 4<r 29 . 
AVe had anticipated that the dardanus-crilhon aberrations could hav^e been retained as a single 
distinct species, but Ave noAV ba\’e intergrades distinctly connecting the heaA’ily spotted typical Sylvester 
Avith the almost siAolless crithon. It is only in the far north these aberrations and intergrades omir: 
none arc yet knoAvn from the Cairns district whore typical Sylvester is abundant: Ca]ie York and Prince 
of W'^ales Ts. baA*e furnished ns AA*ith occasional aberrations, and from Banks Ts. Ave have had more of 
tlie abnormal than of the typical form. AYc consider it ]n*ol)able that crithon is identical with Sfkto- 
ploea inimaculala Butler from Noav Guinea: Ave lia\'e a large niimbei* of Siicloploea from Ncav Guinea, 
and among them is no example so lieaA’ily spotted as that sboA\m on the right band section of our fig. 30. 
17b. E. Sylvester pelor Doiibleday & Hewitson. rig.(2^ 
Genera Diurnal Lepidoptera, p. 88, pi. 11, f. 1, 1847. 
cP. Above. ForeAving A’eh'ety black: a series of Iaa'o or three small subcostal spots: an irregular series 
of outer-discal sjAots, a large one in area 2 and another in area 3: tAVO dots (placed nearer termen) 
in areas 4 and 5: tAvo lai^ge spots in areas G and 7, and sometimes a dot in area S: subterminal dots 
absent: tA\*o narroAA' silky broAA'n sexmai’ks in area la, the upper one sometimes much shorter than 
the loAA’er. HindAving broAAUi: a series of discal spots, tliose in areas 2 and 3 usually clearly divided: 
suhtex-minal dots usually absent, if present, faint and incomplete. 
Beneath. Forewing broAvn AAuth central area darker and dorsum grey: a dot in end of cell: subcostal 
dots as al)ovc, but larger and extending as a series of postcellular Plot's to area 2 ; discal spots and 
dots as above: a conpAlote sei'ies of minute sulxterminal dots. TIindAving broAA^n AAnth dorsum grey: .a 
dot in cell and a series of up to scA^en postcellular dots: discal spots as aboA^e: a complete series of 
subtermiual dots. 
9 . Aboa E. ForeAAung as in male, but dorsum straight: a series of four small subcostal spots aboA'e end 
of cell: discal dots in areas 4 and 5 usually larger: sexmark alxsent. HindAving as in male. 
Beneath as in male. 
Loc. Daly E. 4. DarAvin 1 2 3 4 5 12. Roper E. 
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