(430) 



very striking differences will be noticed \>y comparing the diagrams. The cell is 

 much narrower in meridionalis, W and M' come from the cell, while in pnrndiseus 

 they are stalked together. The pattern of the wing is also very peculiar. The 

 black distal border of pararliseiis is in meridionalis indicated only at the extreme 

 edge of the wing : veins all yellowish green, a narrow onter border to wing and a 

 broader streak from near base to tail in front of snbmedian fold also yellowish green, 

 abdominal area up to snbmedian fold black, with a yellowish green streak at basal 

 edge, and another, more distal, streak of dispersed scales gradually disappearing 

 distally ; the golden yellow area divided by the green veins, cell all golden yellow. 

 The underside of the bindwing as above, but abdominal margin from edge to fringe 

 of long hairs greyish white, a narrow streak of the same colour behind submedian 

 fold, tail with yellowish green scales. 



Femora (as in ?) not striated with yellow, tibiae broader than in paradisem. 



Length of forewing : tj 60 mm. 



„ „ ? 72, 73 and 80 mm. 



Mr. Meek caught the S at Milne Bay, Brit. New Guinea, on February 4th, 

 1899, and the ? on February 13th. 



The species will be figured by Mr. Grose Smith in Rhopalocera Exotica. 



NYMPHALIDAE. 



Helcyra Felder, SiU.-Ber. Ak. WUs. Wien LX. p. 450 (1860) ; id., Neues Lepid. pp. 37. 44. t. 1 

 (1861). 



In the description of this genus Felder emphasizes as a peculiarity of Helcyra 

 that the snbcostal nervnre of the forewing has only 4 branches instead of 5. 

 The Indian and Chinese species of Helcj/ra, discovered after 1861, are known to 

 possess 5 subcostal branches. Moore, who in Lepidoptera Indica defines the genera 

 mostly according to the characters e.xhibited by the Indian species only, says that 

 there arc .5 sul)COstals in Heh-i/ra, while Schatz, in Fam. vnd (intt. der Tag/., 

 accepting Felder's statement as correct, attributes 4 and 5 subcostal branches to the 

 genus. 



We possess two specimens of Helojra from New Guinea which we thought to 

 represent apparently a geographical race of //. cliionippe, the species upon which 

 Felder based the genus Jlelci/ra, but on e.xamining them more closely we fonnd 

 that these two individuals had 5 subcostal branches, uot 4 as Felder says of 

 chionippe. To clear up the discrepancy we have compared the neuration of the type 

 of chionippe with Felder's figure. Felder is wrong in describing and figuring the 

 forewing as having 4 subcostals, but there is some excuse for this error. The 

 second branch, namely, which arises shortly after the upper angle of the cell, fuses 

 with the third branch shortly after the origin of the latter, and thence the two 

 veins run as one to the apex of the wing, terminating where in the individuals of 

 H. hemina vein SC!' terminates. Thus the free portion of SO' appears only as a 

 short bar, overlooked by Felder, which connects the stem of SC"' with SC* : what 

 in Felder's figure is designated as SC^ and incorrectly drawn as terminating far 

 before the apex of the wing is in fact SC- + 8C'\ 



That peculiarity in the neuration of the type of H. chionippe is the same on 

 both forewiugs. The type specimen has remained unii|Ue ; we can, therefore, not 

 know whether the fusion of 8i;- ant! S( '' is of normal occurrence in the Moluccan 

 form of H. chionippe., but are of opinion that this is uot the case. 



