New Forms of Butterflies from Butch New Guinea 331 



The series of this species obtained by Messrs. Pratt is very 

 interesting, and is constituted as follows : — 



P. virgo virgo E. and J. 



Mount Kunupi, 6,000 feet, November to January, sixteen 3 3 , 

 fifteen ? ? . 



P. virgo f. obscurata J. and T. 



Mount Kunupi, 6,000 feet, November to January, eleven 3 3 , 

 seven ? ? . 



P. virgo f. opaca J. and T. 



Mount Kunupi, 6,000 feet, November to January, six 33. 



P. virgo f. infuscata J. and T. 



Mount Kunupi, 6,000 feet, November to January, two 3 3 ; Mount 

 Goliath, S. Dutch New Guinea, 5,000 to 7,000 feet, February, 1911, 

 A. S. Meek, one 3 . 



There seems little doubt that we have here a single species, which 

 may not even be racially distinct in British and Dutch New Guinea. 

 These are essentially mountain insects, and in course of time, it is 

 conceivable that one or other of the forms mentioned may supplant 

 the others and constitute a separate race. 



EEYCINIDAE. 



8. Dicallaneura longifascia sp. nov. 



Allied to ekeihei Beth.-Bkr., from the Owen Stanley range, agreeing 

 with this species in the white areas of both wings, and in the long white 

 stripe on the hind wing below. 



2. Upperside fuscous-black (xlvi). Fore wing with a broad white 

 band anteriorly narrow in cellules 6, 9 and 10, outer edge curving 

 outwards from vein 6 to near the margin on veins 2 and 3, and ending 

 on the inner margin before the tornus ; inner edge of this band less 

 sharply defined, straight from base of vein 11 across the middle of dis- 

 cocellulars to below base of vein 2, thence curved outward to the 

 submedian, and slightly incurved to the margin. Fringe white from 

 apex to middle of cellule 4. 



Hind wing with a distal costal white patch, sharply defined, inner 

 edge oblique from costa to middle of cellule 4, thence slightly oblique 

 to vein 4 near its middle ; outer edge from just before the apex to vein 

 4, slightly indented. A round white spot in 3 placed at about a third 

 the length of the cellule from the margin. Fringe white from vein 6 

 to submedian (?) ; wings of the specimen torn from anal angle to vein 3. 



