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LAMPROLENIS; MANIOLA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
black ground-colouring and in the middle discocellular of the hindwing being even more sharply angled than 
in Xenica. ■— None of the species yet described is found, outside the continent of Australia. 
abeona. E. abeona Don. (= zelinde Hbn.) (94 b). An extremely variable species, no two specimens alike; in this 
respect the forms of Enodia differ considerably from those of Heteronympha. The under surface of the wings 
is even more handsome than the upper, the hindwing being traversed by a broad, pure white band, distally 
finely dentate, and the ocelli with their distinct, dark red iris stand out even more strongly. I have <$<$ before 
rawnsleyi. me from Sydney in which the band is reduced to a fine white line, and rawnsleyi Misk. is a colour aberra- 
joanna. tion in which it is entirely absent. — joanna Btlr., one of the most beautiful butterflies of Australia and of 
the whole East, cannot be specifically separated from abeona, in spite of all the differences in colouring, 
on account of the early stages. Both wings are traversed, by yellow longitudinal bands on a black-green 
ground. Fore wing with large blue ocelli, which on the hind wing become very small, but are broadly bordered, 
with red. — Larva green with rounded, head. and. 2 anal points; on grass. — Pupa emerald-green, the margins 
of the wing-cases yellow. — From the Clarence River. 
helena. E. helena Oil. (94 b) according to Waterhouse only inhabits the mountains. This very rare species 
is easy to separate from the commoner abeona by the broad, yellow band, of the forewing, which is quite differ¬ 
ently placed. From the Cairns district, Australia. 
19. Genus: Lamproirnis Godm.& Salv. 
Lamprolenis differs in habitus from Mycalesis in the elongate hind.wing, recalling Amathusia, but has 
in common with Mycalesis the three inflated, veins and the sexual mark on the hindwing. — The neuration 
of the hindwing approaches Mandarinia, the structure of the forewing forms a transition to the Satyrus- 
type, much as the shape of the hindwing leads over from Ptychandra to the Lethe- type. A character found 
exclusively in Lamprolenis is that the veins of the forewing are quite as swollen on the under surface and 
of transparent amber-colour. The swollen part of the submed.ian is strongly bent, so that between it and. 
the fine submarginal there is a deep cavity, which is covered, with dense black scales. Below the submar¬ 
ginal the inner margin is twice folded, and bears dull glossy scent-scales. Only one species yet discovered, 
which is confined to New Guinea. 
nitida. L. nitida Godm. & Salv. (94 c). The figure shows the characteristic of the species, a wonderful 
green reflection, which gradually changes distad into a more intensive and. brilliant golden bronze-colour, 
a decoration with which no other Indo-Australian Satyr id. can even distantly compare. The very rare $ is 
essentially larger, paler brown, the hindwing shows only slight traces of the metallic sheen, but is instead orna¬ 
mented with a very large black ocellus with brown-yellow border, which is always well developed on the fore¬ 
wing also. In the d'd', as also on the example figured, the anal ocellus on. the upperside of the hindwing 
is commonly absent. According to Hagen the species flies in the woods at Astrolabe Bay, in March. I my¬ 
self have received it from the neighbourhood of Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen. 
21. Genus: Maiiiola Schrank. 
The few South. Asiatic species of this purely Palearctic genus and its generic diagnosis have been 
already fully dealt with in vol. I, p. 137—142, so that we give here simply an enumeration of the Indian 
species. The name Epinephele Hbn. is about 15 years younger than that of Maniola, to which it must sink. 
Maniola has also already been employed, by Bingham in the Fauna of British India for the forms in question. 
davendra. M. davendra Moore (= roxane Fldr.) (vol. I, p. 142, pi. 47 g) inhabits the north-western Himalayas, 
where it flies at elevations of 9—12 000 ft. on hot days in June or July over stony slopes, which, are only 
latistigma. partly overgrown with brown grass and especially with Artemisia and. Ephedra. — The form latistigma Moore 
brevistigma. was met with by Colonel Swinhoe near Quetta at about 2000 m. from June to August, and brevistigma Moore 
tenuistigma. appears to be the high alpine form, as it was found at Kardong as high as 14000 ft. in August. —- tenuistigma 
Moore was taken in Beluchistan, flying in June. 
M. narica Hbn. (vol. I, p. 139, pi. 46d) is distributed through the steppes from Turkestan to Afghanistan. 
cheena. M. cheena Moore (vol. I, p. 140, pi. 47 a, b) flies over grass and pasture-lands from June to August 
kashmirica. in the western Himalayas near Kunawur at elevations of 8—10 000 ft. — kashmirica Moore is a local race, 
which has been taken from June to September in Kashmir. 
interposita. M. interposita Ersch. is the Indian offshoot of the widely distributed, lycaon, which flies in Afghanistan 
from May onwards. 
