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Posterior wing, from the base to the central white spot, brown ; the 

 outer margin brown, traversed by a rufous line ; the rest of the 

 wing, except the central white spot, orange, \sith five bine-black 



eye-like oval spots, three mar the apex, two near the anal ingle, each 

 with a single dot of light blue, except that which is nearest to the 



anal angle, which lias two. 



Female (tig. 3) brown. Anterior wing with a large central space 

 of white reaching from the costal margin to nearly the outer margin ; 



the nervures black. Posterior wing light brown, witb a large ecu 

 tral space of white; four black eye-like spots beyond tin- middle 

 placed in pairs, three of them with the central dot of blue. 



Under side (fig. 5) white, tinted with lilac beyond the middle. 

 Anterior wing with a broad space of brown attached to tin- inner 

 margin, from the base of the costal margin to near the outer margin, 

 where it is marked by a black spot with two dots of blue. The 

 outer margin and apex (which is traversed by a line of white ) br©H n. 

 A faint line of brown parallel and near to the outer margin. Poa 

 terior wing as in the male, but with less orange, the outer margin 

 and a line near it brown. 



Exp. 3^ inches 



Ilali. Aru, New Guinea. In the collection of Mr. Wallace. 



EvRYTELIDjE. 



Mela.mtis melane, Hewitson (PI. LV.). 



Upper side. Male (tig. 1 ) dark green or blue-brown, lighter at 

 the margins. Anterior wing crossed near the apex by a curved 

 band of light green. Posterior wing with a submarginal hand of the 

 same colour, broader towards the anal angle, where it is marked l>\ 

 two round black spots, each with a dot of light blue. Outer margin 

 of both wings dentated, with bifid lunular white spots between each 

 dentation. 



Under side as above, except that it is rufous-brown, that the sub- 

 marginal band of the posterior wing is orange near the anal angle, 

 that there are three black eye-like spots (two on the orange), the 

 spot nearest the anus marked with two dots of blue. 



Female (fig. 2): upper side light rufous-brown, tinted with lilac 

 towards the margins. Anterior wing with a large Bpace of white 

 beyond the middle. Posterior wing with two indistinct black Spotfl 

 dotted with blue between the median nervules. Under side BS above, 

 except that it is lighter, that the whole of the posterior wing (the 

 costal and outer margins excepted) is of a dirty white, that there 

 are three black spots dotted with blue (larger and more distinct than 

 above) and surrounded with orange. 



Variety : female (fig. 3) differs OU 'he upper .-ioY from the last 



(which appears to be the most typical) a- represented in the plate. 



On the under side it differs from that figure m having the COStal mar 



gin broadly brown, the eve-like black spots surrounded with orange, 



the spot nearest the anal angle marked with two dm. of light blue. 



No. CCCLXXYI. — Pbocxsdimgb oi rai Zoological 80* 



