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DAN AID A. By H. Frulistorfer. 
transfuga. 
obscura. 
pseudo¬ 
philene. 
molyssa. 
woodlar¬ 
kiana. 
mysolica. 
rubrica. 
bonguensis. 
mytilene. 
oros Fruhsi. from Obi, forewing with only a narrow red-brown stripe, which again is broader than in 
trcinsfuga and narrower than in nubila and oros. Black distal border of the hindwing very broad, forming 
a transition from transfuga to nubila. — transfuga Fruhst. (= batjana Fruhst.), locality unknown (Morotai, 
Sula Islands?), is the darkest race known, in which the red-brown in the cell of the forewing is suppressed 
by the black apical and costal colour. Hindwing blackened as far as the cell by the confluent vein-stripes, 
the white patches of the forewing on account of their small size even more isolated than in oros. — At 
the Museum in Brussels examples from Waigeu are labelled obscura Capr., hut whether the form has 
really been described I have not been able to ascertain. Cell of the forewing somewhat less blackened 
than in transfuga, the white oblique hand of the forewing as a rule strikingly broad, much more extended 
than in nubila and transfuga. The form luxurians occurs commonly together with the red-brown typical 
form. Waigeu, not rare. — In pseudophilene Fruhst. the melanotic colouring proceeds still further. In the 
(J the upper surface of the forewing is characterized by the more extended black ground-colour, which has 
completely suppressed the red-brown stripe in the cell of the forewing of philene and its allies. The spots 
between the median veins of the forewing are tawny instead of red-brown. The veins of the hindwing are 
so broadly edged with black as to reduce the dark brown interneural stripes, on the other hand the black 
distal bordering of the hindwing is less distinct than in philene Cr. and obscura Capr. Under surface: 
apical area brown-black instead of deep black as in philene, the basal half of the forewing dull tawny. 
The veins of the hindwing accompanied by less prominent vein-stripes, which are more grey than black. 
The submarginal double row of white dots brighter than in obscura Capr. Abdomen above black-brown, 
beneath huff-brown. — molyssa Fruhst. (77 e) replaces philene in British New Guinea, $ of black ground¬ 
colour with dark chocolate-brown stripes in the cell and between the veins, over which a peculiar reddish 
violet sheen is diffused. The oblique hand of the forewing pure white, very distinct, broader than in 
woodlarkiana and in ferruginea Btlr. Hindwing only with a submarginal row of white dots. Under sur¬ 
face: almost uniform dark tawny with only slight traces of an apical tinge. The submarginal oblique band 
is composed of longer white spots than in woodlarkiana. These spots are, however, somewhat narrower and 
shorter than in pseudophilene and ferruginea Btlr. The veins scarcely perceptibly accompanied by deep 
black scent-stripes. The suhmarginal double row of white spots very distinct. From Gollingwood Bay or 
the islands off it, J-type bought in London, molyssa forms the darkest extreme of the philene-series and 
at the same time a transition to ferruginea Btlr., from which, however, it may be distinguished by the 
conspicuously black colouring and the projecting apex of the forewing. — woodlarkiana Frulist. very nearly 
approaches molyssa. $: the white subapical spots of the forewing somewhat larger then in mytilene Fldr. 
from Dorey and kiriwina Fruhst., narrower and more rounded than in ferruginea Btlr. and molyssa Fruhst. 
Hindwing: somewhat more copiously striped with dark chocolate-brown than pseudophilene. The black, very 
broad distal border more pronounced than in the Sorrong form. The submarginal white dotting very in¬ 
distinct. Under surface: basal half of the forewing lighter and more extended brown than in pseudo¬ 
philene. Hindwing: the interneural stripes shorter and lighter; beyond the cell two white spots (much as in 
bonguensis Frulist., kiriwina and fergussonia Fruhst..). Veins bordered by very broad, grey-black scent- 
scales. Abdomen above black, beneath pale brown. Woodlark Island. — mysolica Moore, described from 
Mysol, probably also occurring on Salawatti, is unknown to me in nature, according to the description it 
approximates to obscura from Waigeu. — Finally, rubrica Fruhst. is a dwarf form from the remote Palau 
Islands. $: smaller, wings more rounded, hindwing more broadly margined rvith black than in nubila Btlr. 
from Halmaheira and Batjan. The subapical transverse band of the forewing consists of 5 instead of 
<>—7 white spots. The upper spots are closer together, more uniform, the lowest on the other hand is 
removed distad further out of the row and is quite isolated. Under surface: the basal red of the forewing 
distally more sharply defined by the black apical border, the white dotting on the forewing reduced. 
Scent-stripes of the hindwing along the veins narrower, hence the red-brown spots more extended. — In 
German New Guinea philene appears to be represented by bonguensis Fruhst. (77 e), which was formerly 
regarded by other authors as well as myself as belonging to mytilene (77 e), but an examination of the 
clasping organs has shown that it is not allied to mytilene, the valve being almost three times as broad and 
the uncus essentially more strongly built and at the proximal end of almost quadrate form, not gently 
rounded like the uncus of mytilene. In common with philene bonguensis produces specimens resembling the 
form luxurians, as shown in the figure. But the commonest examples are those of unicolorous tawny 
colour without discal spots, and even without the submarginal spots of the hindwing. According to 
Hagen bonguensis flies from December to April, then again in July and August, and ascends to about 
MOO m. The true mytilene or a sister-race has not yet been met with in German New Guinea, so that 
Kaiser-Wilhelmsland is poorer in species of this group than the neighbouring British New Guinea and also 
the Dutch part of the island. 
D. mytilene Fldr. (= pullata Btlr.) (77 e) is apparently not very rare in Dutch Nev r Guinea. It is 
easy to recognize by the small scattered subapical patches of the forewing and the light brown areas 
breaking up the dark brown ground-colour, which unfortunately do not come out well in the figure. The 
