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and more vertical. Hindwing with much broader cell, rather longer upper and noticeably shorter lower discocel- 
lular. The chief characteristic, however, is a secundary nervule emitted from the internal nervure in the hind- 
wings, which was first noted by Stichel and named the “end” vein. The colouring of the best known species 
recalls Xanthotaenia. Distribution; Dutch and German New Guinea and Waigiu Island. 
Two species have been recently discovered in British New Guinea, having white bands on the fore¬ 
wings and a band on the forewings recalling certain Opsiphanes. 
M. albertisi Oberth. described from Andai near Dorey in Geelvink Bay, also occurring in Humboldt alberlisi. 
Bay, Dutch New Guinea, differs from the figured astrolabiensis (104 a) in the rather narrower oblique yellowish 
bar on the fore wing and the smaller ocelli on the underside. — aigion subsp.nov. inhabits the island of Waigiu, aigion. 
and has a further reduction of the yellow band on the forewing, whereas the ochre-yellow submarginal zone of 
the hindwings is more distinct. The ocelli on the underside very small, the brown longitudinal bands more ele¬ 
gant and the basal ai’ea paler than in albertisi and the Kaiser Wilhelm-Land race. Type in the Statjdinger 
collection, discovered by Dr. Platen. — astrolabiensis Stick. (104 c) is a rare insect from Astrolabe Bay and astroldbien- 
Friedrich Wilhelmhafen. The hitherto undescribed $ from the last named locality in my collection has the sls 
contour of the wings rounder than in the <$<$ and larger Avhite subapical spots on the forewing. The submarginal 
band on the hindwings is more reddish than yellowish; all spots and bands on the underside darker and more 
extended. 
M. meeki R. and J. has a general resemblance in shape to Opsiphanes fruhstorferi Rob. (Vol. 5, PL 63 a) meeki. 
black on the upper surface also, but rather larger and with more distinctly graduated bar on the forewing, which 
becomes very broad in the $ and occupies the whole space between the cell and the distal margin, which is 
thus reduced to a narrow border. Hindwing with a large black ocellus which encloses a delicate violet crescent, 
and two blue-violet intramedian, slightly reddish ringed small eye-spots, which are bounded outwardly by a 
greyish yellow submarginal band. Before the apex of the fore wing in the <$ are a few white dots, which are wanting 
in the $, because the white band extent close up to the apex. Discovered by collector Meek in the Owen- 
Stanley Range near the source of the St. Joseph River; subsequently rediscovered on the upper Mambare River. 
M. ula R. and J. is another species from the same district and taken with meeki in both localities, ula. 
This conspicuous species appears to replace albertisi in British New Guinea, but the ground colour on both 
sides is transformed into black, with only slight traces of the former red-brown colouring. The rather 
narrower oblique bar on the fore wings is white. Above the apical zone of the forewings are two white marks, 
ringed with violet; the anal ocellus on the hind wing very large with violet crescent. The band on the underside 
of the incomplete, only the costal and intraradial spots present. Fore wing also with an ocellus in the anal 
* angle; the ocellus in the hindwing double. Rather above and distally from the anal zone are two kidney-shaped, 
grey, slightly violet glossed spots, similar to those in some species of Lethe. The median and submarginal band on 
the hind wing formed like the same band on albertisi, but more distinct and dark cacao-brown, ula lives in company 
with Troides chimaera R. and -/., but naturally does not fly about the tall trees like the latter, being, as its co¬ 
louring indicates, a twilight butterfly, and probably inhabiting the moistest parts of the primeval woods 
at the edge of watercourses. 
6. Genus: Taenaris Him. 
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This genus, containing more species than any other in the family, cannot possibly be mistaken. The 
forms of the genus Hyantis alone resemble them, but in the Taenaridae the eye-spots on the upper surface 
of the to rowing are wanting, the secondary sexual characters are different, and, like some of the mimicing 
Elymnias they have a closed cell in the hindwing. The two large eyes on the underside, which sometimes 
also show on the upper surface, combined with the diffusely scaled rather large, usually grey coloured wings, 
lend a somewhat phantastic appearance. - — - Difficult as it is to separate especially the of the individual 
species, because the same form of marking is constantly repeated within the genus, it is easy to divide them 
into groups according to the form of the wings and the shape of the larvae. The presence or absence of scent- 
apparatus in the anal angle of the hindwing is especially convenient as a means of distinguishing the indi¬ 
vidual subdivisions. As in Hyanthis, only one subcostal nervule is given off before the apex of the cell in the 
forewing, otherwise the neuration is almost as that of the genus Faunis, the far produced angle of the cell in 
the forewing and the curved lower discocellular being identical. The palpi are always yellow, longer than in 
Faunis, and in the the submedian is boldly basally curved in correspondence with the convex shape 
of the wing. Middle discocellular straight, in contrast to Hyantis ; precostal in hindwing shorter and stouter 
than in Hyantis. Antennae without distinct club, gradually thickened towards the apex. Hinclwing with an 
anteriorly directed hair-pencil on the median and sometimes also on the subcostal near the base of the w T ing, 
and in the anal area sometimes an androconia patch covered with long hairs (horsfieldi, dioptrica and catops- 
group) but this may be wanting (ortends-group). In urania there is, in addition, ayelloAvish beard between the 
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