66 THE RHOPALOCERA COLLECTED BV THE THIRD NEW-GUINEA EXPEDITION. 



61. E. agondas Boisd. — i çf and Q, Kloofbivak 5 and S March 1913. 1 çf and 9 

 Coll. Baggelaar. I must consider the spécimens, collected by Mr. BAGGELAAR, as belonging 

 to the race, moranda Fruhst. Perhaps I am right, because the localities of that collection are 

 too uncertain. The figure in Seitz (89 d 2) represents very well the female spécimen which 

 I received. The maie spécimen bears no blue near the margins; the anal corner of the posterior 

 wing on the underside is to a large extent orange-yellow coloured; in this yellow part are 

 two ocelli. It is very difHcult to distinguish the races of this species, which is variable in a 

 hisrh degree. We will meet several différent female forms in the same localities. 



Yet it is important to notice the several forms and races, because it can give us an 

 idea of the geographical évolution of the species. So it is, as far as I know, nevv to science, 

 that on the island of New Guinea lives a multi-ocellate form or race of agondas. Mr. RoBER 

 lias already mentioned a 9 from Van Weelskamp, but he has not described the underside, which 

 is interesting for the séries of five ocelli on the posterior wing and one very small ocellus 

 on the anterior wing. The pattern on the upperside resembles very much the one figured in 

 „ Seitz", 89 3 [melagondas Fruhst.); only the brown marginal part on the posterior wing is 

 extended to the analis. In this part are four ocelli. Mr. ROBER has counted three, but the 

 fourth is very small. The maie spécimen resembles the one described above, except that 

 there is more bluish green near the margins and that the orange anal part is very small 

 in which three ocelli are visible. This race, which I propose to name v multocellata" (PI. III, 

 fig. 6) shows some relation with that from the Key Islands, mêla Nie. and is very near to the 

 race hagias Fruhst. (Ent. Rundschau, Jahrg. 31, n°. 5, p. 26). 



Fam. Amathusiidae. 

 Subfam. HYANTINAE. 

 Nov. Gen. Bigaena. 



This new genus, which is based on one species, is to be placed between Elymnias and 

 Hyantis. The nervature resembles very much that of for example E. pliegea Hùbn.; ail the 

 other characteristics are those of Hyantis. The super-discocellularis of 

 the anterior wings is invisible; the medio-discocellularis is very short 

 without a nervule, running into the cell; the sub-discocellularis is long 

 and bent towards the base of the wing. The cell of the posterior wings 

 is closed like in Hyantis, but the discocellularis runs differently. I call 

 attention to the course of R,, R, and M,, M,, which are joined in 

 the cell. The textfigure will show the resemblance to the nervature of 

 an Elymnias. Yet' the anatomical characteristics, the shape and pattern 

 point to the very near relation to Hyantis. 



62. B. pumilio nov. spec. (PI. II, fig. 9). — 2 99 Coll. Baggelaar. 



The expansion of the wings is in both the spécimens 52 mm.; 



the expansion of an anterior wing is 29 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen 



are grayish brown; the eyes are naked; the antennae black brown, at 



the end slightly club shaped; the palpi slender, densely grown over by hairs and with a 



sharp small last limb like in Hyantis. Femores, tibiae and tarsi brown; the anterior ones are less 



scaled than the posterior ones. The colour on the upperside of the wings is pure white with brown 



