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above vein 2 on forewiiig ; a sooty grey marginal band to liinchving with a black 

 snbmarginal line. 



Below. Same colonr with pnrplisb gloss ; a donble postmediau line innerside 

 black, outer whitish, a band of orange-ringed ocelli with white dots. 



? . Similar, but larger and paler. 



Length of forewing : S 21 mm. ; ? 24 mm. 



Expanse : 6 4.50 mm. ; ? 51-5 mm. 



5 cJJ, 5 ? ?, Manus, Admiralty Islands. 



Gil. Mycalesis subpersa vulcanica subsp. nov. 



5. Above. Differs from s. subpersa in being paler, and the ocellus is almost 

 obsolete. 



Below. Differs in the ocelli being much smaller and the white outer part of 

 double line more indistinct. 

 4 cJc?, Vulcan Island. 



61. Elymnias agendas dampierensis subsp. nov. 



6 . Difiers from all other forms of aqondrM in having on both wings above a 

 series of whitish blue submarginal spots. 



Abow. Velvety green-black with a metallic blue-green marginal baud some 

 seven millimetres wide, ou the inner edge of which is the line of whitish-bine spots 

 as in hcwit.'ioni. 



Below. Blackish chocolate glossed with [lurplish blue-green and the sub- 

 marginal band of spots larger. 



?. Similar, but band of spots on upperside of forewing much larger. 



8 c^(J, 2 ¥ ?, Dampier Island. 



AIKEATHUSIIDAi: 



Amathusiiuae 

 62. Taenaris phorcas uranus (Stdgr.) 



TenarU anubleps uranus Staudinger, Eiot. Schinclt. i. p. 200 (1888) (New Britain. e.c errore 

 New Ireland). 



3 cJc?, 5 ? ?, Manus, Admiralty Islands. 



03. Taenaris catops vulcanica subsp. nov. 



(?. Nearly resembles cJ of mi/laec/wide.s, but the dark grey on forewing almost 

 to vein 6 and on hindwing to vein 4 is much wider. 



?. Resembles adrinna, but sooty black on forewing only reaches to a fold 

 between veins 3 and 4 instead of to beyond vein 2. 



2 ? ¥ have lost the large black apical patches on forewing and the sooty black 

 on hindwing is reduced to a narrow margin. This form I propose to call ab. 

 submylaecha ab. nov. 



dc?,3 ¥ ¥ vulcanica, 2 ¥ ¥ ab. submylaecha, Vulcan Island. 



64. Taenaris catops dampierensis subsp. nov. 

 $ ¥ . Nearest to T. c. appina Fruhst., but the dark colour above much more 

 extended ; on hindwing of ¥ it occupies more than three-fifths of wing; the ocellus 



