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80. Messaras tui'neri Feld. 

 From Joliie and Humboldt Bay. 



9(». Messaras cyclotas .'^p. nov. 



Malk. — Both wings very much as in M. lurneri, but paler brown. 



Uppersiile : on the anterior wings the pale fulvous band across the disc is more 

 curved on its inner side and less curved on its outer side. On the posterior wings near 

 the outer edge of the pale liand, which is somewhat narrower and more irregular 

 on its inner edge than in M. tiimeri, is an indistinct narrow fuscous band, 

 interrui)ted bv the veins, outside which is a row of indistinct fulvous lunules 

 centred witli dark brown spots, between which and the margin is a fuscous band 

 centred with lunular bars of a lighter shade. 



Uiidersi<le paler than above, the pale lands on both wings being verv 

 clearly defined on the inner side by an irregular fulvous line, in a somewhat 

 oblique direction from near the centre of the costa to the submedian nervure, 

 and thence on the po.sterior wings to the anal angle. The area in both wings 

 between this line and the base is con.siderably darker than the pale band. The 

 outer third of the wings be_vond the pale band is crossed with a row of dark 

 lirown spots as in M. twneri, surrounded with bright fulvous, on each side of 

 which is an indistinct row of fuscous markings, a submargiual row of indistinct 

 lunules the same colour as the band with fuscous bars at their ba.se. The outer 

 third of both wings is scarcely tinged with violaceous. On the posterior wings 

 the pale band is considerably restricted, the row of spots across the outer third 

 is crowned with pale lunules which are less arcuate tlian in M. turiieri, and 

 the pale lunules beyond the spots are rather more arcuate. The female resembles 

 the rtKtle. > 



Expan.se of wings : 2 inches. 



Hah. Biak and Korrido. 



It is near M. lurneri, but smaller, and the rufous brown basal area is much 

 more extended on both wings, and its outer edge on the underside is more clearlv 

 defined. 



Four males and two females are in the collection. 



91. Symbrenthia hippocla Fdd. 



92. Junonia velleda f'abr. 



9:V Junonia iona sp. nov. 



Upperside: lioth se.^es resemble ./. antigoue Fcld., Lint the basal half of the 

 wings is paler olivaceous, and the outer half is darker brown than in that species. 

 On the anterior wings the spots which cross the disc between the costal nervure 

 and the middle median nervule are considerably smaller, and there are no white 

 markings on either side of the large ocellus lietween the middle and lowest 

 median nervules of the female. 



Underside more fuliginous and less rufous lirown than in ./. nntir/one. 



Expanse of wings: nude, '2\ inches; female, '■i\. 



A series of five males and one female ; the males do not vary. 



94. Pi-ecis hellanis l'"eld. 



