PRAETAXILA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
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longitudinal stripes of the rorewings and oblique short bands in the basal zone of the hindwings. The distal 
border of the latter throughout edged in bright red-yellow, statira Hew. (140 e) has a $ with a habitus statira. 
somewhat inferior to gudula (140 f). Island of Mysol. — gudula Fruhst. (140 f) from Waigiu differ from gudula. 
statira Hew. from Mysol by their larger size and the more obsolete white dots in the apical part of the 
forewings, which have entirely disappeared on the hindwings. The yellowish oblique band of the forewing 
is lighter and somewhat broader. The hindwings exhibit a lighter yellowish distal border and larger black 
submarginal dots. Under surface: the dots of the forewings between the anterior radial and the middle median 
are flown together to a band and bordered in yellowish along the veins, whereas in typical specimens from 
Mysol they are isolated. The oblique band of the forewing is much lighter. The black dots of the hindwing 
much larger and the white streaks bordering the black submarginal dots much longer. The whole hindwing 
is darker brown, the distal border, however, again somewhat lighter than in statira. — vedalia subsp. nov. vedalla. 
lies before me in a 2 from the Astrolabe-Bay. The ochre-vellow transverse band of the forewing uniform, 
considerably broader than in the $ of gudula , but not extending as far as in dhyana- $ (140 f). Under sur¬ 
face more intensely red-brown than in gudula from Waigiu, not so blight, as in dhyana. The species is a 
novelty for Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land. — dhyana suhsp. nov. (140 f), the most remarkable branch of the col- dhyana. 
lective species. somewhat larger and beneath more prominently striped in white, on the hindwings more 
extensively bordered in red-yellow than the $<$ of the vicarious types. $ distinguished by the broadest 
band of the forewing, as well as the most intense and variegated colouring of the under surface Upper 
Setekwa "River at an altitude of about 1000 m, flying in August. Type in the Tring Museum. — naram naram. 
subsp. nov. occurs near Kapaur in the lowlands, flying in January. $ differing from dhyana beneath by 
the somewhat broader white of both wings, but by the very narrow bright yellow anal border of the hindwing. 
$ the nearest to vedalla -O, though with a lighter yellow shawl of the forewing. Collected by Doherty in 
January. Type in the Coll. Erithstorffr. 
P. tyrannus is an extremely rare species of which only very few specimens are known. The 2 re¬ 
sembles about the $ of mambarensis (140 f), though if exhibits only two white and larger (fiscal spots and 
longer preapical strigae of the forewings. — tyranrufs 8m. (140 f) occurs in Waigiu. The figured from my tyrannus. 
collection and a couple in the Coll. Staudiyger are about all that have come to Europe. -— segestes Jord. segestes. 
(140 f) is a geographical deviation from Dutch New Guinea, which was found together with P. satraps 8m. 
in some part of the Geelvink-Bay that could not be exactly ascertained by its author. Beside the proximally 
somewhat dentate band, segestes- <$ differs from tyrannus -J 1 by the presence of a white dot of the forewing. 
P. amabilis R. and J. $ above like tyrannus , but with a distallv irregular, deeply indented red- amabilis. 
brown transverse band of the forewing. Under surface chestnut-brown, two spots in the cell and one beyond 
it olive-coloured. Besides a white median band being divided into two parts by an orange macula. Hind¬ 
wings chestnut-brown with light grey parts. The $ is above loam-coloured, with a pale ochre-y 7 ellow median 
band of the forewings. The hindwings with a reddish spot at the costal border of the otherwise brownish 
upper surface. The under surface of the forewings with a cream-coloured brightening in their median zone. 
Type from the Owgarra at the source of the Aroa River. Flying in May. — casis Jord. differs from the 2 oasis. 
of amabilis by a more extensive yellowish tinge at the hinder margin. Under surface with somewhat longer 
distal and submarginal lines. There have only $$ been found hitherto. Habitat: Mount Goliath in the 
Snow Mountains. 
P. satraps, a remarkable species inhabiting all the parts of the chief island of New Guinea, satraps satraps. 
8m. (1*1 a), the nomenclatural type, originates from the Humboldt Bay, where Doherty collected it in 
September and October. $ above only slightly deviating from bahadur-^ (138 g as abuna) with a somewhat 
narrower orange distal border of the hindwing. $ resembling the $ of mambarensis, though with somewhat 
broader and, therefore, contiguous white maculae of the forewings. - — bahadur subsp. nov. is before me bahadur. 
in 1 U an d 1 ? from the Astrolabe Bay. <$ (138 g as abuna) forms a transition from the $ of satraps to 
that of simbangana. The reddish-yellow distal border of the hindwing broader than in the race from thee 
Geelvink- and Humboldt-Bay, narrower than in simbangana from the Huon-Gulf and the Saddle Mountain. 
— simbangana Hag. ($) (abuna Hell. <$) has a still more extensive reddish-yellow marginal area of the hind- simban- 
wing than bahadur -$ with smaller white spots of the forewings than satraps -$ and bahadur -$. Both the gana 
type of abuna-$ and that of simbangana -$ originate from the Saddle-Mountain, so that abuna is to be con¬ 
sidered as a synonym to simbangana. — mambarensis R. and J. (140 f) inhabits the northern slopes of the mambaren- 
Owen-Stanley range of mountains in British New Guinea. A. S. Meek found a £ in April on the upper 
course of the Mambare River; in the Tring Museum there are two more $2 from the same district, having 
been collected on an expedition from Holnicote Bay to the Owen-Stanley Mountains. These three specimens 
differ from the $ of P. satraps simbangana Hag. by the third spot of the median band of the forewing 
beneath being larger and by the absence of the third black subcostal spot of the hindwing. 
P. albiplaga having come to Europe from the Aru and Key Islands, as well as from British New 
Guinea, has on the upper surface of the hindwings great resemblance with P. satraps from which, however 
it differs at first sight by a magnificent red-yellow band of the forewing. The $ is smaller than satraps- 2 
