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LAXITA. By H. Frfhstorfer. 
nounced, longer and whitish stripes. The however, is beneath darker with a more indistinct white small 
{antra, submarginal band of the forewing. Waigiu. — tantra subsp. nov. excels adulatrix in size. $ above somewhat 
paler red-brown with decidedly more distinctly light costal parts of the hindwings. Beneath likewise lighter 
yellowish-brown with more imposing silvery-white spots of the forewings and a more extensive yellow ante- 
terminal band of the hindwing. Type from Dorey, Dutch New Guinea, flying in June. Similar examples 
also from Kapaur, but with respect to the habitus already inferior to those from Dorey and beneath more 
conos. approximating the adulatrix from Waigiu. — conos Fruhst. (139 b, 140 d) is found in German New Guinea 
und differs from tantra by the almost jet-black, instead of red-brown, small apical spot of the under surface 
of the forewing and larger white, comma-shaped spots of the hindwings. The most common Nemeobiidi 
parina. from Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land. — parina subsp. nov., an areal form of a habitus inferior to tantra and conos. 
3 above, contrary to the almost uniformly brown conos, with a light yellow oblique discal area of the fore¬ 
wing, like in decorata. Under surface with reduced white spotting. Forewing with a red-brown apical area. 
Hindwing with small greyish-white subanal stripes. Type in the Tring Museum. Aroa River, November 
si gal a. till May, from about 700 m. — sigala subsp. nov. approximates the nomenclatural type of the Aru Islands, 
still more than parina, by a light -yellow band of the forewing greatly contrasting with the red-brown ground 
and an extensively light-yellow costal zone on the upper surface of the hindwings. Beneath likewise paler 
than in all the vicarious types, <§ with enlarged white small stripes of the hindwings. $ beneath still lighter 
than even the $ of tantra, and with smaller white dots of the forewings and yellow, instead of silvery white, 
discal maculae on the under surface of the hindwings. $ type in the Tring Museum, Milne Bay. flying in 
December; Kumusi River, North East British New Guinea, August, September. $-type from the Yule 
sfagia. Island in the Coll. Frfhstorfer. — sfagia subsp. nov. (140 e) has an irregular transverse band of the fore¬ 
wing darkened somewhat by reddish, and the slightly lighter costal part of the hind wing is shaded by a red¬ 
dish tint. The black submarginal spots of the hindwings more pronounced than in sigala. $ somewhat duller 
yellow than the $ of conos and sigala, towards the tails densely dusted in a blackish tint. Under sui’face 
tlie nearest to sangha from Mysol, in the <$ intensely red-brown, in the $ with a red-brown bordering of 
the white spots. The subanal strigae longer than in conos and the other vicarious types from New Guinea. 
South East Dutch New Guinea, slopes of the Snow Mountains. Type from the Eiianden River; flying in 
December, in the Coll. Frfhstorfer. Another series of specimens from the Oetakwa River, December, collec- 
sariba. ted by Meek at about 1100 m, in the Tring Museum. — sariba subsp. nov. inhabits the island of the same 
name near British New Guinea. <§ resembles above the sigala-<$ from Milne Bay, beneath the insular me¬ 
lanism is noticeable by the red-brown total colouring, whereby sariba appears almost just as dark brown 
as sfagia. But the apical area of the under surface of the forewings is not so distinctly blackened as in conos 
and sfagia, and the discal diffuse spots of the hindwings are obsolete, but larger than in sfagia. Type in 
the Tring Museum. 
D. ostrina, a rare species, hitherto found only in Humboldt Bay and in the Island of Jobi. $ above 
black with velvety blackish violet lustre. Beneath scarcely discernible from that of the dark races of D. 
ostrina. decorata. Two geographical forms: ostrina Sm. (140 d), $ with a red-brown costal area of the upper surface 
ansuna. of the hindwings. Humboldt Bay, flying in August, September. Discovered by W. Doherty. — ansuna 
subsp. nov. (140 d 140 e $) without the red brown costal spot of the hindwing. The under surface of 
the forewing with a red-brown, instead of black apical area. Ansus, Island of Jobi. Flying in April, May. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
rincessa. D. princessa Sm. is known to me only from the figure of its author. Only one $ has come to Europe, 
which is in the Tring Museum and originates from the Island of Biak in the Geelvink Bay, where Doherty 
discovered it. 9 above intensely red-brown-yellow, apical spotting and submarginal dotting analogous to that 
of D. decorata 2. Under surface light orange with lemon or canary-yellow basal and discal stripes. The black 
apical spot of D. princessa , however, is reduced to a small, exactly discal crescentiform spot, being anteriorly 
and distally cut off and bordered by a yellow semi-circle. On the hindwings two segmentary black and, parallel 
with them, also two yellow postmedian bands. The small submarginal white stripes prominent, but the yel¬ 
lowish anteterminal band so very characteristic of the other Dicallaneura is absent. 
ckcikei. D. ekeikei B.-Bak. (141 a), a remarkable species without any closer allies, the figure of which we 
owe to its author’s kindness. Forewing above blackish, hindwings about the same as in decorata. Under 
surface brown with white spots on the forewings and a yellowish brown anal area of the hindwings. In the 
basal region two white bands, in the submarginal zone six black streaks enlarged on the tail to a thick puncti- 
form spot. British New Guinea, Ekeiki, a village in the Owen-Stanley Mountains. 
5. Genus: I^axita Btlr. 
Easily separable from Abisara by the uncommonly short middle discocellular and the consequently 
longer posterior discocellular of the hindwings being sharply bent inwards and angled. The first subcostal 
vein of the forewings either connected with the costal by a bridge, though isolated, or grown together with 
