1908.] SPECIES OF RHOPALOCERAN BUTTERFLIES. 117 



slightly angled dash ; postmedian line spotted, the costal spot 

 shifted well inwards, all the spots interrupted at the veins, 

 followed closely by the subterminal line of curved internei-vular 

 dashes ; termen very finely linear, pr-eceded by a row of brownish 

 dots. Secondaries with a basal series of three points ; a small 

 spot just outside this series in the middle of the cell, with another 

 below it on the inner margin ; cell closed by a fine line ; a post- 

 medial irregular series of spots, the costal one the darkest, the 

 second shifted inwards, third and fourth well outwards, with a 

 fifth small one below, sixth shifted inwards, seventh slightly 

 angled outwards ; subterminal line fine, scallojDed, internervular 

 small spots lying in the scallops ; termen finely linear. 



5 with a subovate white patch in the primaries in the radial 

 area ; apical and terminal areas very broadly black nearly up to 

 the white patch. Secondaries with the termen narrowly black, 

 preceded by a rowof internervular small black spots. Under side 

 like the male. 



Expanse 30 mm. 



Hah. Owgai-ra and Angabunga River, British New Guinea, 



Type in my collection, other specimens in the Tring Museum. 



Oyaniris drucei B.-B. (Plate \^III. fig. 16.) 



5 . Both wings lustrous silvery blue, the primaries more 

 metallic than the secondaries. Primaries Vv'ith the costa very 

 broadly and uniformly black to half over the cell ; apical area and 

 termen yet moie bi-oadly black. Secondaries with costa greyish 

 brown over the cell and below vein 6, a row of subterminal round 

 small black spots. Under side like the male, as described by me 

 in the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. xvii. p. 102 (1906). 



This female is in the Tring Museum, fiom the Angabunga 

 River, B. IST. Guinea. 



Cyaxiris acesixa B.-B. (Plate VIII. fig. 10.) 



$ . Both wings pale sublustrous blue. Primaries with the 

 costa broadly black ; termen rather broader black. Secondaries 

 with the costa sooty grey to over vein 7 ; termen with a i-ow of 

 internervular black spots. Under side like the male as described, 

 L c. p. 103. 



In the Tring Museum from the Angabunga River, B. N. Guinea. 



Cyaxiris biagi, sp. n. (Plate VIII. fig, 11.) 



(5' . Both wings pale violet-blue, with very fine linear brown 

 termen. — Under side. Both wings silvery greyish white. Pri- 

 maries with the cell closed by a yellowish dash ; postmedial line 

 yellowish, twice broken, the first spot detached well inwards as 

 also the bottom spot below vein 8, the middle portion between 

 veins 6 and 3 straight and confluent, subterminal row of 

 yellowish scallops ; tei-men with j^ale yellowish internervular 

 dashes. Secondai-ies -sWth three subbasal yellowish dots, the 

 middle one in the cell shifted outwards, another dot on the inner 



