QAA NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXll. 1915. 



53. Melanitis leda dominans Fruhst. 



Mdamlis leda domnmns Frulistorfer, Eutonu ZelUclu: (SluWjarl), xxii. p. 87 (19U8) (Bismarck 

 Islands). 

 4 (?c?, 2 ? ?, Mamis, Admiralty Islands. 



54. Mycalesis terminus matho Gr. Sni. 



M;,caksis matho Grose Smith, Ann. Ma,j. Xat. Wd. (G) xiii. p. 501 (1804) (New Britain). 



2 cJ cJ , Dampier Island. 



00. Mycalesis phidon phidonides I'nihst. 



MycaUsh phulon phidomdes Fruhstorfer, !>,■/,. ,ool.-bol. G^.^ell. W,e,,, 1908. p. 204 iGerman 

 N. Guinea). 



8 6 6, Dampier Island. 



of3. Mycalesis sirius antecanis Finhst. 



^fy,■alesis siriu., autecams Fruhstorfer, Vcrh. ^o,d.-bot. &«;/?. U7<.«, 1308. p. 200 (German Xew 

 Guinea). 

 4 cJc?, 4 ? ?; Vulcau Island. 



ftT. Mycalesis nerida theophila Frubst. 



Xyralesis nerida fheo-phda Fruhstorfer, Verk. zool.-hot. Ge^M. Wien, 1908. p. 199 (German New 

 Guinea). 



7 6 6, '.I ¥ ?, Vidcan Island. 



58. Mycalesis meeki sp. nov. 



Allied to nerida. 



S. Abor,'. Antennae olive black above, below grey with cinb orange rnfous ; 

 head, thora.x, and abdomen dark olive brown. Forewing dark olive brown, cell and 

 basal half paler; two small subapical ocelli ; in outer half of wing below vein 4 is a 

 large quadrate fulvous orange patch angled on inside, reach almost to inner margin 

 and jiroduced towards base of wing below vein 2 ; in this patch between veins 2 and 

 3 is a very large ocellus. Hindwiug dark olive brown, basal half clothed with long 

 paler olive hair ; two large ocelli ringed with fulvous. 



Below. Fnlvous olive, not fulvous as in nerida, ocelli much larger than 

 in nerida, and second from costa on hindwing flattened and shuttle shape, not 

 round. 



¥. Similar but larger and paler (four have four ocelli on hindwing above and 

 two have three). 



Length of forewing, i 24 mm. ; ? 2<") mm. 



Expanse, $ 52 mm. ; ? 58 mm. 



3 cJ J, 4 ? ? , Vulcan Island ; c? cJ, 3 ¥ ? , Dampier Island. (Type i , Dampier 

 Island.) 



59. Mycalesis subpersa sp. nov. 

 i. Allied to perseus, but the hiudwings are longer and narrower and costa of 

 forewing less arched. 



Above. Sooty brown, a small iblack ocellus with white centre on forewing 



