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Show 1883.] LEPIDOPTERA F R O M T I M O R LAUT. 369 markings on the under surface of secondaries less defined and arranged in a much less irregular series. Expanse of wings 42 m m . Maroe Island. 10. TERIAS LARATENSIS, sp. n. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 3.) 8 • Nearly allied to T. lifuana ; above most like m y " Japanese Terias," fig. 10 (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1880, pl. vi.), but with less-pointed primaries and narrower apical border; it, however, belongs to the T.-asiope group, the primaries below being marked with a curved series of three subapical red-brown spots; other markings much as usual, all well defined; the discal series of secondaries forming a nearly straight line between the first subcostal and second median branches. Expanse of wings 39 m m . Larat. 11. APPIAS ALBINA. Pieris albina, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. Lep. i. p. 480. n. 62 (1836). 8 • Maroe Island. A small example; the species was originally described as from Amboina. 12. APPIAS CLEMENTINA. Pieris Clementina, Felder, Sitzungsb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Cl. xl. p. 448 (1860); Reise der Nov., Lep. ii. p. 162. n. 133, pl. 25. fig. 6 (1867). 8- Maroe Island. Originally described as from Amboina. 13. BELENOIS CONSANGUIS, sp. n. Nearly allied to B. pitys from Timor, but a little smaller; the external border of primaries with more oblique inner edge, much broader towards the costa and without any trace of a subapical white spot: primaries below white, suffused with sulphur-yellow at the base only ; external area black internally, but of a reddish clay-colour towards apex ; its inner edge much less irregular than in B. pitys, being sinuated only on the lower radial and lower (or first) median interspaces : secondaries saffron-yellow, the external border with purplish-black internal, and reddish clay-coloured external half. Expanse of wings 48 m m . Larat. PAPILIONINHE. 14. P A P I L I O A B E R R A N S , sp. n. Pattern and form of Papilio liris of Timor, which it greatly resembles on the upper surface, but the pale area on the primaries is whiter, and the submarginal spots on the secondaries sandy brown, instead of dull red ; the sides of the abdomen, front of head, a m s. and lateral pectoral stripe are ochreous instead of deep rose-red, and the submarginal spots on the under surface of the secondaries are ochreous buff instead of rose-red. Expanse of wings 108 m m . 8 2 • Larat. |