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the ocelli are decidedly more broadly yellowish ringed and have narrower black pupils than in gorgo gorgophone. 
— danalis Fruhst. The island of Waigiu, lying opposite to Sorong, produces a further form of gorgo, which, danalis. 
curiously enough, comes closer to the dark race from German New Guinea. Yet the upper surface bears rather 
lighter leaden-grey scales, while the underside is almost as dark as the specimens from German New Guinea, 
only that danalis has usually simple ocelli and the scaling between the ocelli is rather paler. — gorgophone gorgophone. 
Fruhst. (104 d) must stand as the darkest subspecies, the grey bordering of the wings is much extended, as com¬ 
pared with typical gorgo Kirsch from Dutch New Guinea. Also, almost all the specimens from German New 
Guinea have a double anal ocellus, as in the figure, whereas typical specimens from Sorong appear always 
to have that ocellus simple. On the upperside there is no variation worth mentioning, but on the underside the 
black scaling varies, so as either to' cover the median area of the hindwing or to leave it free. The ochre-coloured 
tint of the basal part of the hindwing also varies in intensity. The anal secondary ocellus ranges from the size 
of a pea to a mere dot. The forewings very rarely show the sidus Stick, form, i. e. an intramedian eye-spot, sidus. 
Hindwings with only one anal ocellus may be denoted as simplex form. nov. ■ — Larva reddish with two pale lateral simplex. 
streaks and rather long hair. On the head are two stout, short, obtuse horns, which end in a circle of 5—6 spines. 
Collector Wahnes once found a nest of nearly 50 larvae on the underside of a Pisang leaf. The species is some¬ 
what uncommon in Kaiser Wilhelm-Land; flies from November to March. Specimens from Finsch-Hafen are 
most richly black powdered on the underside. Doherty found gorgophone also at Humboldt Bay. 
T. microps Sm. described from a <3 discovered by Doherty in Humboldt Bay; will probably prove microps. 
to be a variety of gorgo, unless it stands in the same relation to gorgo as does dina Stgr. to dimona Hew. The 
d' is about the size of a gorgophone the apical ocellus shows through distinctly and the anal bordering of 
the hindwing is slighter and apparently a paler grey. There are two small ocelli of ecpial size on the underside 
of the hindwing, the anterior placed in the first median interspace. 
T. bioculatus, the most splendid species of the Hyades group, is interesting from its greatly darkened 
easterly geographical races, which are sharply separated within short distances, and by the resemblance of the $$ 
to the Elymnias agondas $$. with the basal area of the forewing yellowish or white, the inner area of the 
hindwing white or dusted with black. The anal ocelli mostly distinctly white centred, almost equal in size, 
slightly bordered with cloudy grey or deep black. Wings with very fine, long pubescence in the middle, so that 
the anterior periphery of the ocelli appears to be edged by a fur collar. Hindwing first grey, then black bordered. 
Forewings beneath first white, then outwardly deep black in all races. Hindwing with larger eye-spots and more 
extended ocellar border than above. Costal border much broadened, leaving a yellowish or white sickle-shaped 
area free in front of the ocellar border. Forewing in $ white, more or less yellowish edged towards the dark 
apex. Hindwing yellow, in the eastern races white, and broadly or narrowly black bordered according to the 
local form. Underside of hindwing as in the the anterior ocellus extremely small. The ocellus-aberration 
gemmata not uncommon in both sexes, but duplication of the anterior ocellus appears not to occur, neither 
does the shAis-forniation. Distribution from Waigiu and Salawati to the eastern point of the main island 
of New Guinea. — bioculatus Guer. from Waigiu Island, is distinguished in the $ by a rich cream-coloured bioculatus. 
tinge on the upperside of the hindwings. Hindwing in the $ with distinct black bordering, and a deep ochre- 
yellow median portion of the wing. — pallida Fruhst. (104 d) differs from the typical bioculatus from Waigiu pallida. 
in the lighter, in the hindwings also narrower, black border in the $. The blue eye-spots on the upper surface of the 
hindwing are also paler and less broadly black ringed. The $<3 have a brown, instead of black apical margin 
on the forewing. Sorong and Kajumera from western Dutch New Guinea, also from Salawati with quite un¬ 
important variations. — charonides Stgr. a prominent local form, extending from Humboldt Bay to Astro- charonides. 
labe Bay. Hindwings of the <3$ whitish, distally with fine grey or delicate brown scales. Basal area of the hind¬ 
wings pure white, suddenly and sharply narrowed inwardly. Black distal border very broad. Median curved 
mark on the underside of the hindwing only slightly cream-coloured. — charon Stgr. commences in Finsch- charon. 
hafen (German New Guinea) and extends to Port Moresby, where the author’s type was taken. A distinct 
race, forewings conspicuous from the pure chalk-white base; hindwings extremely narrowly black bordered, but 
the light area behind the ocellus extended to the base. $ upper surface black-grey, with deep black ocellar 
ring. Median curved mark in both wings white beneath. — charondas subsp. nov. from the Aroa River; $ fore- charondas. 
wings somewhat as in pallida Fruhst. hindwing dark yellow with brown scaling. Anal ocelli small with 
narrow black periphery. Hindwing under surface with relatively large apical ocellus and dark yellow median 
mark. It is not improbable, that charondas may yet be discovered on the eastern coast of Dutch New Guinea, 
somewhat to the north of Prins Hendrik Island, since it is intermediate between charon with its white under 
surface and the western pallida, which is light ochre-yellow beneath. 
b. Forewing with produced apex. 
T. artemis may be considered as the commonest species in the Papuan Region, inhaiting the whole of 
the main island together with its eastern and western satellite islands. The numerous races may be divided into 
three main types, namely; those with very dark general colouring (in western New Guinea and the attendant 
islands; those with broad and sharply defined white band on the forewings (British New Guinea and the islands 
