MYCALESLS. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
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of five black eye-spots, broadly bordered with light ochre-yellow. Common in the shady thickets of Friedrich- 
Wilhelmsliafen. in German New Guinea, from March to June. Doherty found the species also in. Humboldt 
Bay in September and October. — theophila Fruhst. : smaller, darker, wings more rounded, ocelli larger, co- iheojMla. 
louring stronger, all the bands more pronounced than in. elia. Under surface: darker, all the bands broader, 
more reddish. The three apical and the two anal ocelli of the forewing confluent. Androconial spot of the fore wing 
much smaller. £ likewise darker on both surface, more grey-brown than yellowish. From Finschhafen, German 
New Guinea. 
M. bazochi Gbuer. (= milena Sni.) (92 d). This distinct species has been very well figured by Smith bazochi. 
both above and beneath, better than by Guerin. Smith’s statement that milena has the brown basal half of 
the wings lighter and more extended than, bazochi I do not find confirmed by my examples from almost the whole 
of New Guinea, bazochi somewhat recalls mucia above, durga 8m. beneath. The' secondary sexual characters 
rather complex, under surface of the fore wing with central bunch of scales in the friction-patch. Scent-area 
on the upperside of the hindwing with a shallow, rather large depression with yellowish scales, surrounded below 
by a broad, glossy black border of scales, above which projects a brownish hair-pencil. Proximally to the sub- 
marginal of the hindwing arises further a rather long shaggy tuft of brown hairs, which is also found in oroatis 
Hew., durga 8m. and mystes Nicev. Under surface basally dark brown, the distal part grey-violet. The latter 
is divided off by a moderately broad, red-brown, longitudinal band from the proximal half. Fore wing with 
three small apical ocelli and a larger anal one. Hindwing with six eye-spots, of which the last but one is the 
largest. All the ocelli margined with yellow. Examples from Etna Bay in Dutch New Guinea are somewhat 
smaller than those from Dorey and Kapaur. 
M. cocodaemon Kirsch (92 d) forms with evara Fruhst. a group which is characterized by a collection cocodaemon. 
of black androconia in the friction-patch on the underside of the forewing, cocodaemon, however, is again rather 
isolated, as it has on. the upperside of the hindwing in addition to a very long brownish scent-pencil a central 
scale-spot in. the scent-area, but shows no massing of androconia below the scent-area. Under surface grey- 
black with slight purple gloss and two black longitudinal bands. Forewing with a small apical and a larger 
subanal ocellus. Hindwing with six eye-spots, ringed with ochre-yellow, of which the fifth is the largest. A 
rare species, described from Jobi, whence also it is represented in my collection; according to Oberthur also 
occurring on Andai, Dutch New Guinea. 
M. evara Fruhst., Length of the forewing 23 mm. The scheme of markings on the upper surface of evara. 
the wings copies that of mucia Hew. in. its red-brown proximal and broad black distal half. The costal border 
is broadly margined with black. Under surface: this recalls cocodaemon Kirsch with its grey-violet tone and broad 
red-brown median longitudinal bands. The forewing bears two ocelli, the hindwing five. On. the forewing the 
anal one is the largest, on the hindwing the subanal. All the ocelli are yellow-ringed and isolated, with the ex¬ 
ception of the upper two apical eye-spots of the hindwing, of which the iris is joined together. Like cocodaemon evara 
has also two black antemarginal lines, the proximal one strongly dentate. The scent-area of the hindwing is 
very broad, light and glossy, with a deep narrow depression at the subcostal which is filled up with yellowish 
scales. Below it is placed a broad glossy black scale-spot, which extends nearly to the base and from which 
arises a thin yellowish hair-pencil. The friction-patch on the underside of the forewing is bipartite and consists 
of a crescent broadly margined above with grey, which is placed across the submarginal vein and reaches to the 
broad brown submarginal band. The part below the submarginal is narrow but very long and traverses almost 
the entire anal margin of the forewing. At the submarginal (in the middle of the friction-patch) is placed a 
bunch of yellow-brown scales. Milne Bay, British New Guinea. Rare, only 2 in coll. Fruhstorfer. — eva- evarida. 
rida subsp. nov., an extremely rare and elegant form, a sort of ,,missing link“ between, cocodaemon and evara, 
and indeed intermediate between them in having a semicircle of glossy, deep black androconia on the upperside 
of the hindwing, which is less extended than in evara, but better developed than in cocodaemon. Shape like¬ 
wise intermediate, also the habitus, only a little larger than cocodaemon, smaller than evara. as in evara. except 
that the upperside of the hindwing is narrowly (instead of broadly) suffused with red-brown. $ with more 
rounded wings, lighter, more ochre-colourecl, beneath predominantly yellowish red instead of black-grey. Finsch¬ 
hafen, a pair in coll. Fruhstorfer, This may be the species which Hagen cites as cocodaemon in his list of the 
butterflies of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland. Flies according to Hagen in. December—January. 
M. taxilides spec. nov. is the only species yet known with dark blue colouring on the upper surface re- taxilides. 
calling Taxila thuisto Hew. and Dicallaneura arfakensis Fruhst. Both wings with a white-pupillecl, black subanal 
ocellus, whilst the others only show through slightly from the under surface; otherwise without markings. Ground¬ 
colour of under surface grey, with two dark brown longitudinal bands on each wing, forewing with a violet 
transcellular band, ocelli arranged as in barbara 8m. (92 e). Scent-area of the hindwing with black anclroconia- 
cavity and a basal hair-pencil. Aroa district, British New Guinea, from 4 — 5000 ft., taken by Meek in May 
1905, type in the Tring Museum. 
The synonymy of the three following species ( aethiops , shiva and lorna ) has not yet been satisfactorily 
cleared up. From the figure I think it is safe to regard as M. aethiops a species which stands out from the 
circle of its allies by its almost black ground-colour, but in the scheme of markings may easily be confused with 
