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in place of two anal ocelli, and in two $$ there are also median ocelli, arranged in a chain together (= pro- prodiga. 
diga fa. nov.). 
T. butleri Oberth. appears to replace domitilla in the Papuan district. This and scylla Stgr. are the butleri. 
only species of the Taenaridae wanting in my collection, and known to me only from specimens in the British 
Museum and Staudinger’s figure. $ considerably smaller than agrippa, but of the same uniform brown-yellow 
ground colour. Ocelli as in agrippa , the ochre- or orange-coloured area round them more extended inwardly. 
butleri has on the under surface of the forewings two intramedian complete ocelli. Appears to be very rare, 
restricted to southern New Guinea; hitherto known from the Aroa district, Port Moresby and Yule Island. 
T. rothschildi is the oldest name for a collective species which reaches its highest*development in Ger¬ 
man New Guinea, is very common there and figures under the name of ivahnesi in all catalogues and periodi¬ 
cals. The collective species has in common a grey ground colour, discally paler, but this may spread over 
the whole surface of the wings. The anal ocellus on the hindwing only rarely shows through above. With 
rothschildi also begins a group of species having the most luxuriant development of the secondary sexual cha¬ 
racters. The scent cavity on the costal margin of the hindwings is filled with black scales and under the 
hair-tuft near the anal angle in the inner marginal zone, is a blot-like patch, from which the hair-tufts always 
stand out distinctly against the deep black androconia. The white space on the forewings stands parallel to the 
terminal margin, where it is visible on the upperside. rothschildi Sm. described in April 1894 has priority rothschildi. 
over ivahnesi Hell, of November or December in the same year. The name refers to an aberrant specimen with 
the same exuberant ocellar formation as in prodiga Fruhst., in which the normal and the accessory ocelli are 
united into a chain on the underside of the hindwings. The form rothschildi has been noted several times; 
besides the type there is also another $ from German New Guinea in englisli collections, and two with the 
same series of ocelli are in the coll. Fruhstorfe r (Geneva). The ordinary form of rothschildi has been described 
as pelagia Fruhst. (101 b). It is readily known by the delicate grey of the upper surface and a light yellow- pelagia. 
ish suffusion on the hindwings. Transition forms probably occur, similar to a series known from Kaiser 
Wilhelms Land. Habitat of rothschildi and pelagia in Humboldt Bay, where both were taken by Doherty 
in September-October. In the western districts of dutch New Guinea rothschildi is replaced by some other 
named races, which pass one into another. The most striking of these is merana Fruhst. (101 b). The upper merana. 
surface is like that of pelagia, but the subapical area of the forewing appears purer white, the basal portion 
of the hindwing is also chalk-white with prominent red-yellow hair tufts above the submedian, anal ocellus 
larger than in pelagia, especially on the underside, where also the black distal powdering is more extended than 
in pelagia. Kajumera Bay and Kapaur, south-west Dutch NewGuinea. — amsuna Fruhst. an insidar race ansunci. 
from Jobi Island in Geelvink Bay, is larger the pelagia but smaller than merana, and in general colouring is 
also intermediate between the two. The grey scaling of the hindwings darker, and the white basal area tinged 
with smoke-grey. — rafaela Fruhst. is founded upon a colour variety, rather paler than ansuna. Outer half rafaela. 
of hindwings brown-grey. Submedian region with longer, closer and paler yellow hairs than in ansuna. Anal 
ocelli larger, distinctly showing through. Forewings with broader black bordering than in ansuna, that on 
the hindwings narrower, so that the much larger anal ocellus stands free on a white ground. Iris dark orange- 
yellow. Anal fold much suffused with dark yellow. — senaria Stick, the type of which is in my collection, senaria. 
comes from Salawati Island, and may be considered as the darkest extreme of the species. Upper surface of 
the forewings with the costal margin and apex narrowly, the terminal margin as far as the second median ner- 
vule broadly smoke-grey, otherwise white. Hindwings chiefly smoke-brown, only an ill-defined streak in the 
cell and near the submedian somewhat whitish. The pubescence along the submedian is pale grey-yellow. Anal 
ocellus as in merana but with a duller yellow iris. Ocelli on underside as in merana but without the black 
surroundings. — wahnesi Heller is one of the commonest , and at the same time most variable of the Taena- ivahnesi. 
ridae, and even exceeds artemis standingeri Hour, from the same district, that is, the whole of German New 
Guinea, in its colour- and ocellar-variations. The <3$ are sharply distinguished by the distinctly visible sexual 
patch on the hindwings, but it is extremely difficult to separate the $$ of wahnesi from those of staudingeri, 
especially in the extreme forms which frequently copy each other, resp. have analogous markings and shape. 
Such doubtful specimens are found labelled as “hybrids” in those Museums and collections supplied by a DresT 
den firm. Those specimens with a relatively broad grey distal and terminal border to all the wings and without 
yellow basal suffusion on the hindwings, may be considered the typical forms. — The albinotic colouring is 
described as Candida Fruhst. ; having the grey costal border of the forewings reduced to a minimum and that Candida. 
of the hindwings also almost imperceptible, especially beneath, so that the posterior ocelli stand free on a pure 
white ground. In consequence of this white background the black anal spots on the hindwings stand out with 
unusual distinctness. The ocellus on the hindwings shows through clearly above, the anal fold of the under¬ 
side of the hindwings has yellow pubescence; there is a slight yellowish tinge on the basal area of the upper 
surface of the hindwings. $ of Candida have sometimes a wax-yellow suffusion on the upper surface and a 
