NYMPHALID^.-MORPHIN^. 



TENARIS. y. 



X.— TENAEIS MAILUA. S. Figs. 1, 2. 



Tenaris Mailiia, H. Grose-Smith, " Novitates Zoologicfe," Vol. IV., p. 313 

 (August, 1897). 



Exp. 8 inches. 



Male. Upperside. Both wings dark fuliginous-grey. Anterior wings 

 crossed obliquely beyond the cell by a large subapical diffused white patch, the 

 white area not extending over the subcostal nervules anteriorly, or quite 

 reaching the outer margin posteriorly. Posterior wings with a large diffused 

 yellowish-white patch from near the base, extending over the cell and the lower 

 part of the disc, but not quite reaching the outer and abdominal margins, 

 which are dark fuliginous-grey ; between the two lowest submedian nervules is 

 a small ocellus with a pale violet pupil and a bright fulvous outer ring. 



Underside. Darker and brighter than on the upperside. On the pos- 

 terior wings are two very bright ocelli with broad fulvous outer rings ; the 

 lower ocellus is larger than on the upperside, and the pupil, which is white, 

 is surrounded by a ring of violet scales. 



Antennae black ; palpi and abdomen fulvous. 



Female resembles the male, but on the upperside the white areas on both 

 wings are rather more extended, and the ocellus on the posterior wings of the 

 male is absent. 



Hab. Mailu, British New Guinea (Anthony, July 1895). 



Nearest to T. Anahleps, VolL, aud T. Uranus, Stgr., but the position and extent (on the 

 posterior wiugs) of the white patches readily sej>arate it from these sjiscies. 

 Described from two $ and two J specimens. 

 In the Collection of the Hon. Walter Eothschild. 



VOL. III., JANUARY, 1898. 



