Publ. 30. XI. 1910. 
WAIGEUM. By Dr. K. GrunberG. 
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characteristic is in all the species in both wings a narrow, blue, marginal band interrupted by the veins. The 
forewing is in the $ more pointed, the border less curved than in Thysonotis\ vein 11 is not united with the 
marginal vein, the pedicle of 7 and 8 is considerably longer, the forking near the apex. The species make an 
antique, almost queer impression, what is also expressed by the selection of the denominations of the species 
described first, miraculum and ihauma. 
W. thauma Stgr. (142 f). <$•. Upper surface blackish-brown with a white band, the basal and middle Ihauma. 
parts of the wings covered with scales of a magnificent violettish-blue lustre. Under surface ochreous brown, 
beside the usual white band with a broad whitish submarginal band in the hindwing; all the brown markings 
narrowly and incompletely margined with blue, on the narrowly marginal band distinctly prominent. $ above 
almost black, the white band more receding, the blue scaling confined to the bases of the wings. Under surface 
darker, the blue markings more extensive, the marginal band conqDosed of broad crescentiform or angular 
spots. Waigiu. 
W. miraculum Dr. & B.-Bak. (142 f). <$: upper surface unicolorously blackish-brown, only the costal miraculum. 
margin of the hindwing whitish, both wings from the base to the middle scaled in a lustrous blue. Under surface 
uniformly light-brown, posterior margin of the forewing white, of the blue markings only the marginal band is 
prominent, composed of distinctly interrupted spots. $ above likewise without any white marking, the blue 
basal scaling still more receding. Under surface likewise blackish-brown, the blue markings more prominent, 
the spots of the marginal band broader. Waigiu. Fruhstorfer who adds miraculum to thauma Stgr. 
and simplex Sm. & Ky., distinguishes two more forms, both likewise from Waigiu: f. roscia Fruhst., above roscia. 
predominantly light-blue with a white median area in the hindwing, and f. depicta Fruhst. $ above with a depicta. 
white band as in thauma and only quite feebly developed, dark-blue basal scaling. 
W. ribbei Bob. (142 f). A rather large, magnificently coloured species, upper surface black with ribbei. 
a prominent white band being in the forewing broadly margined with a lustrous blue; in the hindwing the blue 
scales form a median spot at the distal margin of the band, being expanded to a band along the border; also 
base is blue-scaled. Under surface black, the border in both wings yellowish-brown, the distinct white 
band broad, extending in the forewing to close in front of the border, the blue markings except the marginal 
band distinctly prominent, forewing with a costal-marginal band, the hindwing with a basal band and a blue, 
black-spotted marginal band as in Thysonotis. ^ above black, the white band more extensive, whereas the blue 
scaling recedes more. Under surface like in the $ with a distinct blue marking, the broad marginal band in the 
hindwing still more prominent. New Guinea. 
W. makrikii Bibbe. $: upper surface black, forewing at the inner margin bordered with blue, below makrikii. 
the cell a white spot; the white band of the hindwing broader than in W. ribbei, at the anterior and posterior 
cell-end angularly broken. Under surface of a deep blackish-brown, the border light as in ribbei, the white 
band in the hindwing broad and distinct, forming in the forewing only a triangular inner-marginal spot; both 
wings with distinct blue submarginal spots. Hindwing besides with a postdiscal blue macular band being distally 
partly bordered with white. Ceram. Presumably only a form of W. ribbei. 
W. coruscans Or. Sm. Allied to W. ribbei (142 f); smaller, the ground-colour more brown. 0 above coruscans. 
deep dark brown with a distinct, white, joint band being a little darkened by brownish; forewing on the anterior 
part along the light band from the base to beyond the middle broadly scaled blue, hindwing with a blue 
base and a blue spot at the distal margin of the band between the veins 2 and 4. Under surface deep blackish- 
brown, the band likewise pale brownish, narrower than in ribbei and the distal margin in the hindwing more 
curved, in the forewing extending along the inner margin as far as near the base; in the forewing in the cell 
a blue streak running below the marginal band; the blue basal streak in the hindwing broader than in ribbei, 
in the black marginal half two separate, broad, blue streaks approximating each other only at the ends, the 
distal one traversed by the black veins. German New Guinea (Kapaur). 
W. dinawa B.-Bak. Allied to W. coruscans, the yellowish band above in the smaller, the blue colouring dinawa. 
more extensive, encompassing in the forewing the whole band as far as the inner margin, the blue spot in the 
hindwing larger. Under surface similar as in coruscans, the metallic markings bluish-green and just like the 
band in the hindwing somewhat more receding. Dinawa. 
W. simplex Sm. cb Ky. (142 g). upper surface extensively blackish-brown, the white band in simplex. 
the forewing composed of some light spots separated by the veins, in the hindwing only the costal margin and 
inner margin light coloured; forewing from the base to the middle, hindwing only at the base and along the 
anal margin of the cell covered with lustrous blue scales. Under surface very extensively whitish. Forewing 
at the base, costal margin and border, hindwing only at the base and border of a light-brown colour; forewing 
along the basal half of the costal margin and in the cell with a blue longitudinal streak, at the anal angle a 
dark spot. The blue spots of the marginal band in both wings margined with black. Waigiu. 
W. subcaeruleum Sm. & Ky. (142 g). upper surface deep blackish-brown, the joint, white, faintly subcaeru- 
brownish band in the hindwing broad with a black discal spot, in the forewing narrow and broken up into leum. 
single spots by the dark veins. Marginal scales greyish-white, at the bases of the wings some blue scales. Under 
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