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TAENARIS. By H. Frtthstorfer, 
onolaus. the hindwing both the anterior and posterior ocelli are duplicated. — onolaus Kirsch, from one of the islands 
in Geelvink Bay- is very similar to saturatior (100 d) but essentially paler, has a whitish anal border on the upper 
surface of the forewings and a less extended and paler ochre- or orange-coloured area on the underside of the 
macroph- hindwing. — macrophthalmus Fruhst. is a charming local race found on Jobi Island. In the colouring of the 
thahnus. U pp er surface it recalls rebeli, from which it is at once separated by a broad, white anal border along the sub¬ 
median on the upper surface of the forewings. The hindwings are rather darker than in ritsemae, the under 
surface of the forewings has an obsolete whitish area beyond the cell. The bordering of the hindwings is unusu¬ 
ally broad, hence the discal area of the wing is only about one third as broad as in ritesemae, but just as 
pure white. The ocelli are twice as large as in the remaining onolaus races, with a very large black pupil, 
dark ochre-yellow rings and broad, deep black periphery. In spite of their size, the ocelli only show through 
honrathi. quite faintly on the upper surface. Jobi Island, discovered by W. Doherty. — honrathi Stgr. comes from 
Waigiu, where it is rather common. It is a beautiful, well defined, but variable island race; brown-grey 
with whitish basal portion of hindwings and distinct ochre-yellow rings to the ocelli. There are also specimens 
with entirely dark mouse-grey upper surface on all wings and ocelli on the hindwings in which the ochre-yellow 
abdon. periphery is reduced or almost entirely Wanting (= abdori form. nov.). The anal ocellus on the underside 
sekarensis. is always broadly diffused, one $ shows duplicated apical eye-spots and even gemmata formation. -—- sekaren- 
sis Stgr. inhabits dutch west New Guinea and I have it from Sorong. $$ larger than the honrathi 
ritsemae. ground colour lighter brown-grey, hindwing upper surface basally more extensively and purer white. —■ ritsemae 
Fruhst. forms a transition to the races of the german territory, is unusually pale, having even a white median and 
inner marginal area on the fore wings. The hindwings are almost pure white, with the exception of a very narrow 
light brown terminal border, and bear a very large black ocellus, which is broadly yellow ringed. Under surface; 
the white median spot on the hindwings larger than in the Waigiu specimens and also purer white than in seka- 
rebeli. rensis. Humboldt Bay, Sept.-Oct. 1891, taken by W. Doherty. -—- rebeli Fruhst. is, after catops, the commo¬ 
nest Taenaris in Kaiser Wilhelms Land, not spreading beyond Astrolabe Bay on the east, and is very variable 
in its external apprance. As with honrathi, we meet with specimens having the ground colour light grey or 
yellowish, together with others which must be described as deep smoke-brown. The anal ocellus is always very 
distinct in the $$ but, like the analogous form abclon of honrathi, it loses the yellow periphery in the darkest 
The distal border of the underside of hindwings appears sometimes yellowish, sometimes almost black and is 
of varied extent. The apical ocellus is often very small, the anal ocellus inclines to the auriflua form, which is 
found in 12 and some $$ among 30 specimens. In Finschhafen rebeli disappears and is there replaced 
ida. by the distinctive substitute ida Hour. which scarcely differs on the upper surface, since all the have a 
dark slate-grey general tone on the forewings with light yellowish suffusion on the submedian, inclining to 
onolaus Kirsch. Hindwings chalk-white, anal zone much smaller than in rebeli. $ with almost black forewings, 
which are not paler even on the inner margin. Underside of forewings with slight whitish insertion on the anal 
angle. Hindwings with unusually broadly orange-yellow rimmed, deep black ocellus. The inner margin with 
saturatior. much less reddish yellow suffusion than in saturatior Fruhst. (lOOd) from British New Guinea. Type from the 
Aroa district. The can be easily distinguished from ida by the still smaller ocelli, of which the anal is yello¬ 
wish ringed on the upper surface also resp. stands in a distinct, almost orange area. In Collingwood Bay, on the 
enomia. other hand, we find again a reversion towards the ida type, which is described as enornia Fruhst. $<3 smaller 
than the ida <$<$; forewings light grey; their underside as above, but without the whitish tinge which distin¬ 
guishes icla. Hindwings with strikingly broad yellow ringed eye-spots, which are internally diffused and sur- 
montana. rounded by a further orange-coloured zone. —• montana Stich. includes another local race, fcom Mount Epa 
in southern New Guinea, which is the smallest of all known forms, and has pale grey-brown forewings. In 
the absence of the yellow anal colouring it closely approaches enomia. 
T. domitilla is probably the most easily recognized species of the genus in consequence of the double ocellus 
on the hindwings being always distinct even on the upper surface. Ground colour light brown-yellow with 
whitish or grey-yellow basal portion of the hindwings. The apical ocellus on the latter almost always complete 
on the upper surface also. Eye-spots deep black with whitish blue prominent centre. The area round the 
ocelli broadly light or dark ochre-yellow. The anterior ocellus on the hind wing relatively small above, but on 
the underside almost as large as that of diadema Fruhst. (100 c). This species is restricted to the northern Moluc- 
domitilla. cas. — domitilla Hew. originally described from Bat.jan, differs from the figured agrippina (lOOd) in the whitish 
yellow, instead of brown-grey basal portion of the hindwings. The ocelli on the underside are enclosed within 
diops. a black distal region. — diops Voll. is a rather light grey race, with a silky gloss on the upper surface, and 
agrippa. especially recognizable on the underside by the more ashy-than brown-grey ground colour. — agrippa Fruhst. 
(100 d) (misprinted “agrippina”) inhabits Obi Island, where it is not uncommon. It can be readily separated 
from all known species of Taenaris by the basal area of the hindwings being coloured like that of the forewings. 
The orange-coloured area round the ocelli is narrower than in domitilla and has smaller but lighter blue ocelli. 
all the wings brown instead of grey on the underside. The median area of the hindwings never white, but 
as a rule, like the distal bordering, brown or blackish, rather paler, but even then only rarely suffused with 
smoky-brown. $ much paler than the the ocellar periphery never black as in domitilla, but grey; forewings 
sometimes a washed out whitish brown. Ocellar variations rather frequent; 3 out of 33 specimens have three 
