18 NYMrilALID.E. MORI'HIN.E. TEKARIS. 



XI.— TENAEIS MELANOPS. $. Figs. 3, 4. 



Tcnaris 3felanops, H. Grose-Smith, " Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," Series G, Vol. XIX., p. 177 (February, 1897). 



Exp. 4 inches. 



Female. Upperside white ; anterior wings with the basal two-thirds of 

 the cell and the area below the median nervure and the lowest submcdian 

 nervule to the inner margin, also the costal margin broadly to the apex, 

 fuliginous -grey ; the veins, except where crossed by the grey colour, are white. 

 Posterior wings with the costal margin to the apex broadly grey, thence along 

 the outer margin more narrowly grey, until that colour merges in the white 

 lower part of the wings ; on the disc, between the median nervules and a little 

 on either side, is a very large diffused fuliginous greyish-black spot, in which, 

 a little above its centre, is situate a large cluster of lavender-coloured scales ; 

 at the lower end of this cluster is a pure white spot, and near the outer edge 

 of the black spot is another small lavender spot ; near the apex is another 

 small lavender spot surrounded by black. Towards the base the wings are 

 clothed with long yellowish-brown hairs. 



Underside. Anterior wings as on the upperside ; posterior wings with two 

 large fuliginous-brown ocelli, one of which is situate on the margin near the 

 apex, and the other on the disc extending over the submedian nervules ; both 

 ocelli are centred by a white spot partially surrounded by a cluster of lavender- 

 coloured scales, situate in a circular black zone ; outside the zone is an 

 indistinct fuscous ring, outside which, still in the fuliginous-brown area, is a 

 minute white spot on each ocellus. 



Hab. Sud-Est, New Guinea (Woodford). 



Nearest to T. Affiiiis, Eirby. 



lu the Collection of Mr. H. Grose-Smith. 



