The Aru-form exhibits the metallic blue reflection, which in specimens from Amboina is very extensive, in the anal part of the hindwing reduced to 2 small crescentiform spots; this is anthelius Stgr.

[now subspecies] shows the whole under surface of a paler colouring; it represents the species in the Duke of York Island, but it also occurs in New Guinea and New Britain.

— The great number of synonyms is probably due to the fact that this otherwise very constant species was mistaken owing to Cramer's wrong statement of its patria ("Surinam") and Linne's brief description.

[ synonym of A. t. phryxus Boisduval, 1832 ], from German New Guinea, on the contrary exhibits an especially very broad black distal margin, but it is still excelled in this respect by teuthrone Fruhst.

[synonym of A. t. phryxus] exhibits the ring-markings in the disc of the hindwing beneath not so distinct as our figure of anthelius ("helius"); the metallic blue of the anal region is more faded, but more extensive, about as much as in the typical form thamyras-, from the Entrecasteaux Is.