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MYCALESIS. By H. Fruhstoreer. 
valeriana. M. Valeriana Sm. A small species, remotely reminding of minois Hew. from Timor and above of barbara 
Sm. in its still broader ochre-coloured band. British New Guinea, Kapa-Kapa, very rare, like the preceding 
unknown to me in nature. 
bilineata. M. bilineata Fruhst. (92 e). Length of the forewing 20 mm. This pretty species is beneath very 
similar to bizonata Sm. (Rhop. Exot., Myc., Ill, fig. 4—5, nec 8, on the plate as remulina Sm.), but differs from it 
in the simpler and more sharply defined colouring of the upper surface. The basal half of the wings is light 
yellowish, the distal part uniformly broadly black. The distal black border of the wings is proximally entire, 
not notched as in bizonata, and the ocelli scarcely show through from the under surface. The costal margin, 
which in bizonata is brown-black, in bilineata remains light yellow. Under surface: forewing also at the costal 
margin unicolorous light yellow-brown instead of bordered with red-brown as in bizonata. Hindwing with six 
instead of five ocelli. The black antemarginal line nearer to the distal margin. Base of the hindwing yellow 
instead of grey. Milne Bay, 1 $. 
bizonata. M. bizonata Sm. A rather isolated species, to which a convergent species has recently been discovered 
in bilineata Fruhst. With remulina Fruhst. from North Celebes, with which Grose-Smith associated it (and 
which must be regarded as a local race of itysFldr .), bizonata has no further connection than that that author by 
mistake called a small yellow-red Mycalesis (on account of its resemblance, which, however, is only very 
distant) remulina-, a name which had already been bestowed five years earlier (Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1897, p. 118). 
Both wings with broad black distal border and a median white-pupilled eye-spot. Under surface with yellow 
basal and violet distal area and forewing with two, hindwing with four ocelli. Milne Bay, British New Guinea. 
M. duponcheli. To the duponcheli group belong the most showy Papuan species and forms, although 
they have hitherto received but little attention. The forms belonging here are easy to recognize by the clear, 
brilliant yellow on the underside of the hindwing, which is traversed by a gorgeous red-brown band. The upper- 
side of the hindwing is broadly bordered with orange-yellow and the yellow area is sometimes continued also 
in the anal angle of the forew r ing. The scent-organs of the duponcheli series are very simple, none whatever being 
placed on the submedian of the forewing above. The friction-patch of the under surface is unusually large, 
very glossy and reaching to the cell; it even forces the submarginal bands in the anal angle into an outward 
curve, but contains no central patches of compressed scales. The. hindwing bears a rather large scent-area, in 
which are placed a narrow groove filled up with yellowish scales and beside this the usual yellowish scent-pencil. 
maforica. We know the following branches: maforica Fruhst. This differs from duponcheli Guer. from Dorey as follows: 
upper surface: ground-colour lighter brown. The orange-coloured submarginal band of the hindwing narrower, 
the ocelli enclosed by it larger, the black marginal bands considerably broader. Under surface: all the ocelli, 
particularly on the forewing, very much larger and with correspondingly broader yellow-brown rings, which 
on the hindwing are connected into a band. $ smaller, lighter and duller yellow, submarginal band of the hind¬ 
wing more strongly expressed, the bordering of the ocelli more extended brown and hence confluent. The red- 
brown median band of the hindwing straighter and more vertical, the submarginal area darker yellow. Island 
roonia. of Mafor or Mefor in Geelvink Bay (Doherty). — roonia Fruhst. The satellite-island character of this 
form is even more distinctly expressed than in maforica. The yellow on the upperside of both wings reduced, 
darker. Under surface: the red-brown median band of both wings is broader than in maforica. Island of Roon, 
kapaura. Geelvink Bay, Dutch New Guinea (Doherty). — - kapaura Fruhst., smaller, ground-colour deeper black. All 
the ocelli considerably reduced, the yellow colouring of both wings lighter and narrower than in duponcheli. 
Under surface: the fore wing almost as dark brown-grey as in mineus Stgr., the distal area violet instead of yellow' 
and the red-brown median bands darker and more pronounced than in duponcheli. Kapaur, south-west of Dutch 
umbonia. New Guinea (Doherty). — umbonia Fruhst. (91 b, c $$). d- The anal yellow on the upperside of the forewing 
has almost disappeared and is only just suggested in some examples. Hindwing: the ocelli likewise begin to 
be obliterated, the black submarginal lines are no longer confluent, the anal yellow becomes darker, almost 
red-brown. Under surface: the basal area of both wings more brown than yellow, so that the red-brown median 
bands do not stand out so sharply proximally. The rings of the ocelli closely approximated, without, however 
(between the medians), being joined in pairs as in maforica. $: the anal yellow of the hindwing begins to be 
darkened and to shade off into the brown basal colouring, while in the other duponcheli races the basal brown- 
eudoxia. black remains sharply defined distallyT'— eudoxia Fruhst. On the forewing the anal yellow has completely dis¬ 
appeared and on the hindwing there is only one distinct black ocellus. Also the third, proximal, black submar¬ 
ginal band is already obliterated in the middle of the wing. Under surface: the proximal half of the w r ings light 
yellow as in dor yens, the distal (submarginal area) much darkened, in particular the very pronounced whitish 
violet, dull-glossy band inside the ocelli is suppressed. The red-brown median band of the hindwing is in the 
middle curved somewhat distad and anally narrower than in umbonia. 3 SG from Fergusson, 2 S3 from Kiri- 
duponcheli. wina, D’Entrecasteaux and Trobriand Groups. — duponcheli Guer., described from the north-west of Dutch 
New Guinea and from Sorong and Dorey in my collection, differs from the figured umbonia Fruhst. (91 b, c) 
in a triangular orange-coloured spot extending to the middle of the wing, which is broader and darker than 
