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side, but narrower aud entirely white, at its outer edge or just beyond 

 its edge there are sometimes as many as four oval blaok wliite-pupilled 

 spots, which may be reduced to three, two, one or none. li'mdwing 

 with the outer discal patch of the upperside much narrower and 

 entirely white, bearing as many as five round black white-pupilled 

 ocelli, the posteriormost ocellus the largest and bi-pupilled, the ocelli 

 decreasing in size towards the apex of the wing, the anteriormost 

 ocellus sometimes wanting, the two anteriormost ocelli, often blind, 

 the three posteriormost ocelli broadly surrounded with orange. Cilia 

 throughout white, but marked with black at the ends of the veins. 

 Antennce, thorax and abdomen black. Female. Upperside, hath 

 wings of a curious shade of dull fuscous, outwardly darker, almost 

 black. Forewing with a large discal white patcli divided by the fuscous 

 veins, inwardly powdered with dull fuscous scales, posteriorly tinged 

 with bluish, the fascia is broadest anteriorly, rapidly decreasing in 

 width posteriorly. Bindwing also with a large discal white patch 

 beyond which are four round black spots, the two anteriormost blind, 

 the other two sometimes with a bluish pupil, tbe anteriormost spot, 

 the smallest, the penultimate spot the largest, ihe two anteriormost 

 spots placed on a bluish ground. Underside, both wings dull fuscous. 

 Forewing with the discal white patch as on the upperside but poste- 

 riorly it is broader, at its outer edge are four round black spots, the 

 two anteriormost pupillod with pale-blue, the others blind, the one in 

 the upper discoidal interspace the largest, faintly appearino- on the 

 upperside. ffindioing with a large discal white patch, anteriorly 

 sharply bounded by the second subcostal nervule, posteriorly ending in 

 the middle of the submedian interspace ; with five ocelli at the 

 outer edge of the patch as in the male, but the ocelli are all larger 

 and all pupilled. Cilia as in the male. Antennce and thorax fuscous. 

 Abdomen chrome-yellow. 



Mr. Hewitson in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1858, p. 465 and plate LV, 

 described a male and three females (which latter he called varieties 

 of an Elymnias which he named Melanitis melane, giving the habitat 

 as New Guinea. He remarked :— " Greatly as the four examples of the 

 plate differ from each other, I cannot separate them, except in colour ; 

 their chief variation seems to consist in the differing distance of the 

 eye-like spots from the outer margin. This may be noticed in the 

 genus Drusilla \_Tenaris\ in which the beautiful large eyes of the 



