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posterior wing vary much in their relative distance from the outer 

 margin." With regard to this last remark I may note that the two 

 species (one each) of Elymnias which are found in the Ke and Aru 

 Archipelagos respectively appear from the considerable series of both 

 in my collection to be quite constant as regards the position of the 

 ocelli on the hindwing. 



Dr. A. R. Wallace in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend, 1869, p. 329 n. 29, 

 in speaking of Elymnias melane, Hewitson, records that species from 

 the Aru and Ke Islands only, and not from New Guinea, the habitat 

 given by Mr. Hewitson. He noted : — " Males. Mr. Hewitson's fig. 1. 

 represents a male from the Aru Islands ; one from the Ke Islands 

 [my E. mel(i\ has the whitish band on the hindwings much broader, 

 and the black spots without ocelli. Females. Mr. Hewitson's fig. 2. 

 represents one from [the] Ke Islands [this figure does not agree with 

 my M. mela, as the figure has no white patch on the hindwing, the form 

 fio-ured probably occurring in the Aru Islands] ; another from Aru is 

 much darker, and has the white patch on the anterior wings reduced. 

 Fie. 3 is from the Aru Islands. [I have seen no female from 

 the Aru Islands agreeing with this figure, which shows an almost 

 entirely white insect on the upperside. Is Dr. Wallace correct in 

 saying this very distinct form is found on the Aru Islands ? ] Fig. 4 

 [also fig. 5] is from the Ke Islands. [This figure does not agree 

 with my Ke Islands females ; the ground-colour of the forewing on 

 the upperside is ferruginous instead of dull fuscous, and the white 

 areas on both wings on both surfaces as shown in the figures are 

 much more extensive ; it probably is found in New Guinea only.] 

 It is difficult to determine whether the forms from these two islands 

 should be separated. There are some diflFerences in neuration, but a 

 close examination of all my specimens has shown that these are not 

 constant in both sexes. It will, perhaps, be better therefore to leave 

 them together till a more extensive series from both islands may 

 enable us to determine if any constant differences exist." 



I may note, in conclusion, that all writers (Ribhe, Standinger, 

 Kiilin and myself) have hitherto followed Dr. Wallace in recording 

 E. melane from the Ke Islands, but as the Elymnias from thence 

 agrees with none of Hewitson's figures of E. melane, and is, moreover, 

 within certain slight limitations constant, it appears to me that it is a 

 distinct species, and I have here figured both sexes. 



