MYCALESIS. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
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in kapaura Fruhst. and maforica Fruhst. The distal area of the hindwing in the $ above more extended, 
tinged with darker red-brown than in maforica $. Underside of the hindwing in the £ with considerably lighter 
distal part, the distal bordering of the broad brown-red median band nearly white. 
M. eminens appears to replace duponcheli in German New Guinea, but is a good species, extending 
also into the west Papuan region. — Two local races: eminens Stgr., known from all parts of Kaiser Wil- eminens. 
helmsland — apparently flying all the year round and according to Hagen occurring in open woods. The $ 
seems to be very rare, as I have only received one from Finschhafen. Upper surface of both sexes black - 
only the hindwing with broad orange-coloured marginal area as in duponcheli. Forewing with two large, promi¬ 
nent white-pupilled eye-spots, hindwing with an anal eye-spot, below which in the $ there is sometimes an 
accessory eye-spot. $ larger than the <$, with rounder wings and with the pupil of the ocellus three times as 
large, white and tinged with blue at its edge. In addition to German New Guinea, eminens is also known from 
Humboldt Bay and Kapaur in Dutch New Guinea, from the island of Biak in Geelvink bay, and appears like¬ 
wise to occur on Waigeu. — obscurata suhsp. nov. (91 b), differs in its smaller size, the indistinct white pupils obscurata. 
of the ocelli on the upperside and the darker underside of the forewing; also in the broader, straighter and more 
black-brown longitudinal band of the hindwing and the smaller ocelli, which are less strongly bordered 
with dark red-brown. Milne Bay, British New Guinea. 
M. mucia, distributed over the whole of New Guinea and some of its satellite-islands, is a species easy 
to determine on account of the half red-brown, half black upper surface of both wings and the likewise sharply 
divided under surface, of which the figure of etha (91 c) gives a very good idea. The scent-apparatus of this 
species recalls the secondary sexual characters of duponcheli Guer. in the organs and their arrangement. The 
scent-spots on the upperside of the hindwing, however, occupy a wide space, so that the light-scaled stripe 
at the costal margin of the hindwing is considerably narrowed, mucia is split up into several subspecies, three 
of which inhabit different parts of the main island of New Guinea. — mucia Heiv., the name-type, comes from mucia. 
the Dutch part of the island, and is also reported from Aru. According to a $ in my collection the ocelli on 
the upperside of the wings bear almost as large blue pupils as in eminens. forewing at the base slightly 
shaded with brown, the median area pale yellow, becoming lighter distally, between the middle and lower median 
a very large black eye-spot. Hindwing dark brown, with larger anal ocellus bordered with light yellow, above 
which a small acessory eye-spot is placed. Under surface of both wings with the basal half chalk-white. Fore¬ 
wing with two, hindwing with four eye-spots, which are placed in a grey-violet area, proximally broadly bor¬ 
dered with brown. — The name melanopis Godm. must be used for the darker race from British New Guinea; melanopis. 
in it the black distal half is more sharply separated from the dark brown basal part. Ocelli of both wings smaller, 
the proximal half of the wings no longer predominantly white, but assuming a yellowish tone. — etha Fruhst. etlia. 
(91 c), which has come out too light on the figure, is noteworthy for the distinct indications of island melanism, 
having a reddish brown tinge on the basal area of the under surface and the subanal ocelli on the hindwing 
above standing out distinctly; Fergusson, d’Entrecasteaux Islands. — verena subsp. nov. is by no means rare verena. 
in German New Guinea and is found in open woods and shady places; flies November to August. The white- 
pupilled ocelli on the upperside of the forewing are as rule wanting, the under surface is still more darkened 
than in etha. Two forms of the $ deserve mention: the one from Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, which I regard as 
normal, beneath scarcely differing in colour from the with grey-powderecl basal area, and above almost 
like the^^A. e. dark red-brown, scarcely appreciably lighter distally;— and §-form valda form, nov., which I valda. 
have only received from Finschhafen; it is always larger, above, particularly distally, lighter broAvn with the 
eye-spots almost as distinct as in mucia ; base of the wings beneath light yellow-brown not mixed with grey. 
— febronia subsp. nov. inhabits the island of Jobi in Geelvink Bay and forms a transition from mucia Hew. febronia. 
to verena, sharing with the race from Dutch New Guinea the very distinct blue pupils of the ocelli on the upper 
surface, but having the base of both wings darker above and beneath than in. verena and etha. — On the Solomon 
Islands we find mucia again in a representative, but well differentiated species as 
M. splendens Mathew. Friction-spot on the underside of the forewing as in mucia Hew. Scent- splendens. 
organs of the hindwing above with a black androconial spot below the strikingly small scent-area. The scent- 
area bears in the middle a large groove with deep black scales. The radiating hair-tuft grey. From the North 
Solomons: Bougainville and Treasury. 
M. sara FLatheuj (— mteirupta Sm.") (91 b). d^his species also lesembles nxucxa abo\e, but beneath sava. 
more approaches messene Hew. from the North Moluccas. The androconial patch is even more pronounced 
than in splendens, the scent-area bears a central spot filled with brown scales and below the base of the yellowish 
hair-pencil there is another narrow black patch of androconia. sara, which we figure, is the smaller of the two 
species from the Solomons; splendens differs from it beneath in having the longitudinal band of the hindwing 
broader and distally more outcurved and in the grey-brown ground-colour of both wings. In the S' the wings 
