COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA 19 



77. Taenaris staudingeri staudingeri Hour. 



Tncnaris slaudingcri Honrath, Bed. Ent. ZeitscJir., 33. p. Ifi3 (1889) (fterman New Guinea). 



1 s Utakwa Kiver, 4500 ft., Dec. 1912. 



78. Taenaris catops catanea (Fruhst.) 



Tenaris catops crt^awpa Fruhstorfer, Soc. Ent. 19, p. 129 (190-1) (Dutch New Guinea). 



The single ? is a striking aberration, being entirely white above with exception of 

 the costal area of the forewings and a border on the hindwings which is widest at costa, 

 diminishing rapidly till it ends at vein 3. I propose for this the name ab. alhidior. 



7 6S Base Camp^ Nov. 1912— Feb. 1913 ; 1 9 Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft., Feb. 1913. 



79. Taenaris dioptrica dioptrica (VoU.) 



Drusilla dioptrica Vollenhoven, Tijd. Ent., iii. p. 38, t. 2, f. 2 (1860) (New Guinea). 



2 S3 Base Camp, Nov. 1912. 



80. Taenaris onolaus sekarensis (Stdgr.) 



Tenaris honrathi var. sekarensis Staudinger, Exot. Schmett., i. p. 192 (1888) (N.W. New Guinea). 



1 (J Canoe Camp, Nov. 1912. 



The Genus Morphotenaris. 



This genus was established by Fruhstorfer in 1893 for the remarkable butterfly 

 Morphotenaris schoenbergl from the western portion of German New Guinea. The prin- 

 cipal distinguishing characters stated by its author to have induced him to separate 

 it from Taenaris, are the strongly sickle-shaped outer half of the forewings, the ovate 

 NOT round hindwings, and the strong development of the nervures on the underside 

 of the wings. When sufficient material has been collected to enable us to make a 

 final revision of the genus Taenaris it will, I am certain, prove impossible to uphold 

 Morphotenaris, but at present I prefer not to sinlc it as a synonym of the former. 

 The single species consists of 5 local races and a possible sixth. I have described the 

 North-Eastern coastal race in a footnote. 



81. Morphotenaris schoenbergi wollastoni subsp. nov. 



$. Differs from M. s. schoenbergi in the basal area of the forewings being pale bull' 

 instead of coffee brown, and in the vertex of the head and front half of the thora^ 

 being intense black instead of whitish grey. 



Expanse 162 mm. Length of forewing 78 mm. 



1 ? Utakwa River, 4000 ft., Dec. 1912. 



A second very defective ? was got by A. S. Meek on Mt. Goliath. This specimen 



