ON NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN BUTTERFLIES. 241 



Since the above was written, Mr, H. Frulistorfer in Stet. Ent. Zeit., 

 vol. Ix, pp. 339-342 (1899) has given a revision of the species of 

 Elymnias of the agondas group. He gives " E, agondas melane, 

 Hewitson and Wallace" from the Key Islands (p. 342), although 

 Hewitson described it from New Guinea, and none of Hewitson's 

 figures agree with any examples 1 have seen from the Ke Archi- 

 pelago. He describes E. agondas aniana, new subspecies, pp. 341, 

 342, from the Aru Islands. The female can at once be distinguished 

 from that sex of E. mela from the Ke Isles both by having the abdomen 

 yellow instead of black ; both sexes of species differ greatly in 

 coloration and markings. 



5. Elymnias (BycU's) melane, Hewitson. 



Melanitis melane, Hewitson .(part), Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, p, 465, 

 pi. Iv, figs. 1, male ; 2, female. 



Habitat. Aru Islands ? ; New Guinea (Hewitson). Mr. Hewitson's 

 figure of the male of this species is quite good and agrees with my 

 specimens from the Am Islands ; the figure of the female, however, 

 is not correct, as it shows the ground-colour of the upperside ferru- 

 ginous, whereas in my Aru Island specimens it is greenish-plumbeous. 

 Hewitson calls it ''light rufous-brown." Whether or no, true E. 

 melan"- as here restricted really occurs in New Guinea or not I am 

 unable to say, as I have no specimen from New Guinea which agrees 

 with Hewitson's figures. Dr. A. R. Wallace does not quote Hewit- 

 son's habitat for it, but says that E. melane is found in the Aru and 

 Ke Islands onl3^ The female figure quoted, he says, represents a Ke 

 Island specimen, but it does not agree with ray females from the 

 K^ Islands. Mr. H. Frubstorfer has named the Aru Islands form 

 E. agondas aruana. 



6. Elymnias (Byctis) meletus, n. n. 



Melanitis melane, Hewitson (part), Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, p. 465, pi. 

 Iv, fig. 3, female. 



Habitat : New Guinea (Hewitson). 



I propose to re-name Mr. Hewitson's figure quoted above. He 

 thus describes it : *' Differs from the last [figure 2, typical E. melane, 

 Hewitson, female] (which appears to be the most typical) as repre- 

 sented in the plate. On the under side it differs from that figure in 

 having the costal margin broadly brown, the eye-hke black spots 

 surrounded with orange, the spot nearest the anal angle marked with 

 two dots of light blue." 



