223 ^Messrs. J. J. Joicej and G. Talbot on new 



p. 301 (1805). is preoccupied bj Mimas, Hiibner, Verzeicliniss, 

 p. 142 (1822). 



^Ve therefore propose the name Mimene for this genus. 

 Beside the species here described, the following two are 

 known, but are not mentioned by Mabille in the ' Genera 

 Insectorum ' : — 



Mimene {Tsmene) miltias, Kirsch, ]\Iitth. K. Zool. i\Ins. 



Dresden, vol. i. pt. 2, p. 128, pi. vii. fig. 6, ? (1S77) 



(Jobi Island). Type of genus. 

 Mimene (^Mimas) miltias, de Nicer., J. B. X. H. See. 



vol. ix. p. 393, S (1805) (Humboldt Bay). 

 Mimene (^Mimas) meHe, de Nicer.. J. B. N. H. Soc. vol. ix. 



p. 394, pi. Q, fig. 55, ? (1895) (Humboldt Bay). 



Mimene hasalis^ J. & T., (J . 



Mimas basah's, Joicey & Talbot, Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. 1916, p. 80 

 (Schouten Is ), $. 



c? . Upperside with metallic bluish-green scaling in the 

 basal areas. Fore zcing with basal patch extended but 

 slightly into the cell. Hind icing with basal patch extended 

 beyond cell between veins 4 and 5, and mostly covered with 

 white hair. 



Underside as in ? and with a blue spot on vein 5. Hind 

 icing as in ? and with a brown discal spot and a quadrate 

 blue postcellular spot in 4. 



Fore and hind tibite with a fringe of hair, black on the 

 former, and on the latter black anteriorly and white poste- 

 riorly. 



Length of fore wing 18 mm. 



Hab. Waigeu, Feb.-March, 2 ^ S • 



Mimene hiahensis, sp. n. 



cJ . Upperside with stigma not wary, but straighter tlian 

 in waigeuensis ; yellow discal band much reduced and scarcely 

 indicated below vein 2. 



Underside oifore icing unicolorous, without median yellow 

 patch which is present in icaigeuensis. 



? • Upperside with only faint yellow scaling in the median 

 and basal areas of fore wing. Hind icing without discal 

 spots. 



Underside of fore wing with a small yellow discal patch 

 below vein 2. 



Hah. Biak, Schouten Is., June, 3 (J (^ , 3 ? ? . 



