NYxMPHALID.E.-MOPiPHIX.E. 



MORPHOTEXARIS. 



MOEPHOTENAEIS NR^SCENS. ? . Fig. 1. 



Morphotenaris Nivescens, Rothschild, " Novitates Zoologic^e," Vol. III., 

 p. 92 (1896). 



Exp. 5^ inches. 



Female. Upperside. Both wings silvery-white, semi-hyaline. Anterior 

 wings with the basal third of the costa broadly fuliginous-brown, and the 

 veins narrowly brown. Posterior wings with the margins narrowly brown, and 

 the ocelli on the underside indistinctly visible through the wings. 



Underside. Anterior wings as on the upperside. Posterior wings, with 

 three ocelli, the uppermost, between the subcostal nervules towards the apex, 

 the largest, the two other ocelli between the median nervules about half the 

 size of the uppermost; all the ocelli have a white iris with a black pupil, 

 surrounded by a very pale tawny zone, bounded outwardly by a narrow 

 greyish-brown ring; there is a trace of a fourth ocellus above the discoidal 

 nervule. 



Hab. Eafa District, 5,000 feet, British New Guinea (Anthony, October, 

 1895). 



In the Collection of the Hon. Walter Eothschild. 



Mr. Eothsohild remarks: "I think it is quite possible that when the fauna of the high 

 mountains of New G-uinea has become better known, we shall find connecting links between 

 M. SchOnbergi, Honr., and M. Nivescens, but at present I know of no such links, and I therefore 

 am bound to treat M. Nivescens as a distinct species." 



VOL. III., APRIL, 1898. 



