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PRAETAXILA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
segecia. 
early a. 
yan>ya. 
panel aria. 
wallacei. 
theodosia. 
It unlei. 
posialba. 
representatives of this species are very rare, for which reason the gaps in their range are explained. We 
may be sure to expect segecia yet from some districts of Northern Dutch and German New Guinea, as well 
as from many islands. — segecia Hew. (14.1 a) without the exact habitat being stated by its author except 
New Guinea, type based upon specimens found by Wallace (presumably in Dorey or the Aru Islands). $ 
with a narrow isolated white spot in the cell and two apical dots of the forewings. $ with an anteriorly 
somewhat narrower band and, like in all the other races, t hree apical spots. My sol, Aru Islands, Dutch 
New Guinea. — cariya subsp. nov. without white preapical spots, but with a just as narrow band of 
the forewing as is shown in Hewitsoxs figure. $ with a more extensive white oblique band of the forewing 
than in Hewitsons figure and in my Aru-specimens. Hindwing with a light yellowish-red basal area. The 
band of the under surface of the forewings in the dull yellowish, the red-brown discal spots of the hind- 
wings of the $ smaller than in the 9? from Aru. Type in the Tring Museum. From the Upper Setekwa 
River, from an altitude of about 1000 m, and the Eilanden River, both of which spring from the slopes 
of the Snow-Mountains. Flying from July till December. — yanjya subsp. nov. exhibits again two white apical 
dots of the forewings. The <$ analogous to the name-type, its white shawl, however, appears still more 
narrowed, and the white band of the fore wing of the 9 scarcely reaches half the extent of segecia and cariya. 
9 above uniformly intensely led-brown, the black submarginal spots of the hindwings reduced, the red-brown 
ones in the discal area very much darkened. A*type liom the Yule-Island in my collection, the 9 from the 
Area River, flying in October. In the Tring Museum. — punctaria Fruhst. (138 g) is distinguished by an 
increase of the white, preapical spots and the red-brown, instead of grey, base of the forewing. The proxi¬ 
mal side of the hindwings characterized by almost disappearing small discal spots being stunted to small 
short dashes. The white submarginal crescents more prominent than in the other \icarious types. Cape 
York. North Australia. Very rare, only one 9 of the Coll. Fruhstorfer. 
P. wallacei is still rarer in the collections than segecia and our knowledge about its occurrence more 
incomplete. The 9 i* probably not at all described. $ easily recognizable by three oblique, imposing, square, 
purely white preapical spots of the forewings. The hindwings with two larger white patches to which some¬ 
times a small proximal stripe is yet joined. Cilia as in segecia, alternatively white and black. Under surface 
plainer than in segecia, first of all the white or yellowish transverse stripe of the forewing is absent, the 
latter being only traversed by three rudimentary dull grey bands. Hindwing without the greyish-brown 
basal area of segecia, but rather unicolorously black with reddish ochre-yellow marginal spots enclosing black, 
white-bordered maculae. -— wallacei Hew. occurs in Mysol, while theodosia Fruhst. is found in Dorey. The 
rj 1 differs from vxtUacei by narrower white subapical spots of the forewings and a longer white anal spot 
of the hindwings extending up as far as the anterior median, whereas in wallacei it already terminates at 
the middle median. This white spot is besides narrower and is proximally bordered by black teeth projecting 
from the base of the wing, whereby theodosia appears very dainty. -— huntei Sharpe differs from wallacei 
and theodosia by a longer white subanal spot of the hindwing. Ty pe from British New Guinea. 
P. postalba R. and J. (140 f, g) differs from P. wallacei by the preapical spots of the forewings 
being reduced to three small dots, the white anal area of the hindwing, however, being extended as far as 
to the cell. $ body brownish black; the eye anteriorly and posteriorly margined in white; palpi, tips of an¬ 
tennae and under surface of the femura yellow; under surface of abdomen proximally white, distally yellow. 
Wings above black, very faintly purple. Forewing with 3 white dots between the cell and the apex. Hind¬ 
wing with a broad white marginal area from the abdominal margin quite close to the 3rd radial; 3 large 
marginal dots in this area black; two white fringed spots farther costal wards. -— Under surface of the fore¬ 
wing paler than the uppe” surface, with white markings washed over with brown, namely: a dot near the 
cell-base, a short transverse band proximal from the cell-apex, a line running outside the cell obliquely from 
the costal margin to the hinder margin, and a narrower line being anteriorly bent in and dissolved into 
dots and being posteriorly convergent with the proximal line. In the proximal half of the hindwing, the 
usual M&fsara-markings are indicated, two small dots in the cell, a short subbasal streak before the abdominal 
margin and faither distally a short oblique streak are white or grey; the white anal area somewhat smaller 
than above, in the costal direction continued by some white discal dots and by a narrow yellow submarginal 
macula. 9 resembling the 2 of -4. satraps Sm. ^141 a). Forewing much less rounded, the third spot of 
the median band narrower; three white subapical spots. Hindwings above without white submarginal dots. 
On the under surface the postcliscal line of the forewing, beginning from the first median, is yellow. The 
hindwing exhibits three black subcostal spots, the distal one of which consists of two snots and extends close 
to the third radial -vein; the wing is distally less broadly black than A. satraps, the white distal spots of 
the upper submarginal maculae smaller, and there is a short brown oblique streak in the white area before 
the abdominal margin. A good many 7 ' specimens of both sexes in the Tring Museum, A? in the Coll. Fkuh- 
storfer. 
P. statira, a magnificent, sexually vastly differentiated species distributed from Mysol to Kaiser-Wil- 
helms-Land on the northern coast and to the south as far as to slopes of the Snow-Mountains. $ above black 
with a brown-hoary cell. Hindwings decorated with magnificent red-yellow, narrow marginal spots being 
separated by 7 black veins. 9 illustrated from both sides by our figures 140 f. <$ beneath black with white 
