334 New Forms of Butterflies from Dutch New Guinea 



10. Praetaxila tyrannus Sm. segestes Jord. 5 . 



Abisara segestes Jord., Nov. Zool. xi, p. 45 (1904) (Dutch New 

 Guinea, probably East of Geelvink Bay). 



? . Upperside of fore wing with cellspot reduced to a dot or 

 obsolete. Median spot mostly reaching below vein 2. Hind wing as 

 in t. tyrannus Sm., with or without two apical spots in 4 and 5. 



Underside as in t. tyrannus, but without any yellowish or tawny 

 scaling. The discoidal spot of the fore wing is prolonged distad in two 

 out of four specimens. 



Wanggar River, 15 miles from coast, ca. 600 feet, January, seven 

 $ $ , one 2 (neallotype) ; Wanggar, February, one ? ; Kwatigore, 

 February, three $ $ ; Nomnagihe, 2,000 feet, June, one ? . 



This race is separated by Fruhstorfer in Seitz, but is very close to 

 the typical Waigeu form and may have to sink if material from Waigeu 

 should prove otherwise. 



