332 New Forms of Butterflies from Dutch New Guinea 



Underside fuscous-black, basal area more fuscous. Fore wing with 

 white band as above. A curved white mark crossing the cell at the 

 middle. A white spot at extreme base. A small white spot in cellule 

 9, a short streak below it in 8, and a smaller spot below this in 6, all 

 placed just beyond outer edge of band. A curved row of submarginal 

 white spots in cellules 2 to 8, the one in 6 the larger, the one in 2 

 linear, close to edge of band. Two white apical spots in 6 and 7, the 

 lower the larger. Hind wing with a white costal patch and round spot 

 in 3 as above. A smaller white spot in 2. A thick white longitudinal 

 stripe from the base, its upper edge oblique to base of vein 2 and along 

 this vein shortly, lower edge just below cell, meeting upper edge in a 

 point on vein 2 ; some further white scaling along veins 2 and 3 and 

 edge of cell to vein 3 ; discocellulars thinly outlined with white. A 

 curved white submedian stripe from the inner margin at base nearly 

 to vein 2, its edges irregular, more so the lower edge. A second 

 slightly curved and narrow white stripe, placed near the margin from 

 the anal angle to vein 2. A narrow marginal ochraceous-tawny (xv) 

 band from vein 5 to the anal angle, crossed by a white line broken up 

 into spots at the veins, this again edged by a deep black line similarly 

 broken up. The fringe broken by fuscous-black at end of veins 4 and 

 5, the rest of the margin being damaged in this specimen. 



Head, thorax, and base of abdomen above fuscous. Antennae black. 

 Eye edged with white except above. Palpi and side of frons white. 

 Fore-legs with femora white, rest pale ochreous ; other legs absent in 

 this specimen. Pectus white. Abdomen pale ochreous on ventral 

 surface, and with a subventral ochreous-tawny stripe. 



Length of fore wing : 23 mm. 



Nomnagihe, 2,000 feet, January to February, one ? . 



9. Praetaxila poultoni sp. nov. 



Allied to eromena Jord., from the Snow Mountains, and differing 

 in the much restricted orange area in the 3 and in the larger white 

 patch on the hind wing of 2 . 



3 . Upperside with black-brown ground-colour and orange bands. 

 Fore wing with a discal band from 4 to 5 mm. wide, sharply defined 

 at the edges, not touching costa, slightly entering end of cell, crossing 

 base of cellule 3 or not reaching it, outer edge curved from vein 3 

 to submedian, where the band is narrower than at costa. At base of 

 wing some chestnut-brown scaling. Hind wing with a broad discal 

 band, inner edge diffused below the cell and not entering the cell; outer 



