72 Messrs. J. J. Joicey and G. Talbot on new 



a small round spot of similar colour; a brick-red costal spot 

 before the apex and joined to the first of a submarginal row ot 

 white spots, the first two being farther apart from the others, 

 which are more or less connected to form a line to the anal 

 angle ; traces of white scaling in cellule 7 along vein 6. 



$ . Upperside with more extended black on both wings, 

 the hind-wing margin being widest between vein 4 ajid costa; 

 basal white of fore wing and inner margin of hind wing with 

 a slight yellowish tinge. Apex of fore wing with two brick- 

 red spots. 



Underbide of fore wing with reduced white at inner 

 margin and larger apical spots continued as faint streak to 

 the tornus. Hind wing as in ^ , but with submarginal spots 

 tinged here and there with red. 



Length of fore wing, c? ? , 25 mm. 



A small series of both sexes, 6000 feet, Wandammen Mtns., 

 Nov. 



6. Elodina dejinita, sp. n. 



Differs from all otiier New Guinea species of this genus in 

 the reduced costal and basal black on fore wing above, this 

 only slightly invading cell at extreme base. The black 

 marginal border is regularly incurved and only slightly 

 waved ; it terminates below vein 2 and is rounded at this 

 vein 



Underside of fore wing at base lemon-yellow in cell, costa 

 narrowly margined, a well-marked subapical black band 

 terminating below vein 2. Hind wing lemon-yellow at base 

 in cellule 8. Ground-colour chalky white on both sides. 



Length of fore wing 22 mm. 



1 (J , Wandammen Mtns,, 3000-4000 feet, Nov. 



1 . Danaida melusine commixta, subsp. n. 



This form, of which we only possess a damaged $ speci- 

 men, partakes of the characters of grosesmithi, Joicey & 

 Noakes, whilst connecting this with the race cetakwensis, 

 Joicey & Noakes. 



? . Fore wing with apical spots and median patches larger 

 than in grosesmithi, but smaller than in cetakwensis. The 

 upper median patch is as long as in the more tj'pical melusine 

 forms, but does not touch the cell ; submarginal spots large, 

 as in grosesmithi. 



Hind wing with three apical spots smaller than in grose- 



