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outer margin one third from the anal angle : body and legs 

 white. 



Expanse of wings lyV inch. 



Humboldt Bay, New Guinea. 2 ($ . 



The white of the hind wings is much as in deaWaia, 

 Distant, which I have from Borneo, but it is much larger 

 and very different in the markings above and below. 



4. Tagiades hovia^ nov. 



(J . Palpi blackish brown, white beneath ; head, body, and 

 wings blackish brown ; spots white : fore wings with two 

 spots at the end of the cell and two beyond it, the two outer 

 the largest ; a whorl of five subapical dots, as usual : hind 

 wings with a white anal band, narrowing a little upwards 

 and extending for nearly half the length of the outer margin ; 

 four black spots on the outer margin of the wing in the upper 

 half of the white band, and two larger black indistinct spots 

 above its upper end ; abdominal marginal space whitish. 

 Underside : fore wings dark brown, the hinder margin 

 whitish ; spots and dots as above, the subapical whorl of 

 dots continued down the wing to near the hinder margin as a 

 macular submarginal band, gradually becoming larger hind- 

 wards : hind wings white, with a broad costal brown band, 

 its inner margin containing three large black spots, two 

 joined together touching the band near the outer margin, and 

 a marginal, more or less discoimected, thin, black band ex- 

 tending downwards to vein 1 : body and legs white. 



Expanse of wings 2-^-^ inches. 



Shortland Islands. 2 <? • 



Allied to japetus, Cram., which I have from Amboina, 

 but the white band of the hind wings is very much broader 

 and differently marked. 



5. Tagiades sivoa, nov. 



oJ. Palpi blackish brown, white beneath ; head, body, and 

 fore wings blackish brown ; spots small and elongate, one at 

 end of cell, two above it, and one below cell in an inwardly 

 oblique line, one immediately above the last outwardly oblique, 

 two below costa near apex, two outside the lower one and 

 almost in a line with it towards the outer margin, and another 

 below the outer one ; an almost obsolete whitish patch near 

 hinder angle ; cilia black : hind wings blackish brown, with 

 a broad white band from the centre of the outer margin to the 

 abdominal margin, where it widens, extends shortly upwards, 



