352 Four New Butterflies from the Islands of Me for and Blah 



discal line broken up by the veins. Postdiscal spots larger than above. 



An antemarginal line broken at the veins. 

 Abdomen pale yellow on ventral surface. 

 Length of fore wing : 36 mm. . - 



Mefor Island, August, C, F., and J. Pratt, four ? ? . 



AMATHUSIIDAE. 

 4. Morphopsis biakensis J. and T. angustifascia subsp. nov. 



This form was figured by Lord Rothschild in Novitates Zoologicoe 

 xxiii, pi. iv, figs. 3, 4 (1916). According to Rothschild, specimens from 

 the mainland of New Guinea do not differ from Mefor ones. Herr 

 Fruhstorfer, in the Ent. Rund. 34 Jahr. No. 11, p. 43, described what 

 he considered a new race of albertisi Ob., under the name of derhion, 

 and compared it with the Mefor form of biakensis ! The description 

 of this single specimen from Dutch West New Guinea is too inadequate, 

 but as it possesses a broader band than in the Mefor one, it may be an 

 albertisi race, or is it the ? of specimens already considered as the 

 same as Mefor and Biak ones '? We have a $ specimen from Mt. 

 Kunupi (Weyland Mts.), 6,000 feet, which seems to agree with Fruh- 

 storfer's description, the ocelli being a little smaller and the band a 

 little broader than in biakensis, but it is a form of this species. 



$ ? . Upperside of fore wing with a narrower band, more deeply 

 incurved between veins 4 and 6. Hind wing with the submarginal 

 line nearly regular, slightly more sinuate in the ? . 



Underside of fore wing with cellmark sharply angled. Inner edge 

 of band indented on vein 4, and with a short spur in cellule 2. In the 

 2 the lower end of band at margin separated by the distal part. Hind 

 wing with a heavier brown discal line which is more curved anteriorly 

 and hence farther from the ocellus, the part touching vein 3 also 

 farther from the anal ocellus, in the ? more as in the type form. 

 First submarginal line less irregular, second submarginal line nearly 

 regular, slightly thinner at the veins, in the ? more sinuate. 



Mefor Island, August. A series of both sexes, mostly much 

 damaged, collected by C, F., and J. Pratt. 



