TAENARIS. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
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ting, rnyops Fldr. the name-type from the Am Islands, has the upper surface similar to artemis myopina Fruhst. 
which flies in company with it, and our figure 101 d of ziada. Ground colour mouse-grey with slight violet ziada. 
gloss. The transcellular white part of the forewings somewhat as in fergussonia (101 c). Hindwings pure white 
beneath, with very restricted brown distal border, which extends little beyond the middle of the wing. pra- praxedcs. 
xedes Fruhst. from Salawati, stands very close to myops \ the white area of the forewings is still more extended, 
as is also the terminal border of the hindwings on the underside, which is carried on to the anal angle. Ocelli 
more distinctly black ringed. kirschi Stgr. is an interesting local form on the mainland of New Guinea, descri- Idrschi. 
bed form Port Moresby in the British territory. $ with dominant white colouring, especially on the hind¬ 
wings, on which only the distal border is more sharply defined grey. The subapical white on the forewings and the 
basal yellowish tinge on the underside of the hindwings much more extended than in myops and praxedes. fergus- fergussonia. 
sonia Fruhst. (101 c). Specimens from the Fergusson Islands differ from Idrschi Stgr. in having a dark grey suf¬ 
fusion on the hindwings, similar to myops. The hindwings are basally much paler. The whitish, oblique sub- 
apical bar on the forewings somewhat broader. The black bordering of the hindwings extends further into 
the anal region. The ocelli are larger, darker ochre-yellow and more broadly black ringed. Hindwings ba¬ 
sally with darker, yet brighter yellow suffusion. - miscus Fruhst. Anal fold Avith unusually broad grey-black miscus. 
scaling. Forewings light grey, with broad, sharply defined, white subapical spot, which commences at the 
costal margin, passes across the cell to the terminal margin, and is both broader and purer white than in fer¬ 
gussonia Fruhst. Hindwings broadly suffused with grey into the anal angle, anal area and the upper part 
of the cell whitish, as in fergussonia ; hairs in the anal fold whitish, not yelloAV as in fergussonia. Costal 
and anal ocelli showing through, the latter larger than in fergussonia, with broader, blacker pupil. Underside; 
forewings as in fergussonia, but more narrowly white; hindwings the same, only much less suffused Avith yellow, 
the anal angle with narrower black border, ocelli much larger, and prominently yellow ringed. Normanby 
Island (Louisiads); type in the British Museum, only one £ knoAvn. — mailua Sm. a fine local race near the mailua. 
boundary of the species, striking from the rounded form of the wings and the pleasing contrast of the cream- 
coloured parts of the wings with the dull dark slate-grey of the dS an d the almost black bordering of the 
On the underside the anal ocelli without black internal border, and in some <$<$ the ocellar peri¬ 
phery is entirely wanting. — verbeeki Fruhst. occurs together with mailua, so that in spite of all the differen- verbeeki. 
ces it can only be called a subform. <$; AA r ings not rounded like mailua, but with elongately produced apex, 
the costal border more narrowly black-grey, the white subapical zone commences at the edge of the cell and is 
continued very broadly to the distal margin. The hair-tufts on the hindwings are red-brown instead 
of yellowish. The terminal border is darker and broader, so as to cover the ocelli, which scarcely 
show through from beneath. The anal area yelloAvish tinged. Under surface; the subapical spot is 
almost twice as broad as in mailua and purer Avliite. The outer border of the hindwings is more narrowly 
black, specially on the anal margin. The apical ocelli are larger, the anal ocelli usually smaller than in mailua, 
and are broadly black ringed as in fergussonia. In the anal region of the hindAving in the $ there is no trace 
of a black margin, so that the ocelli, which are light yellow instead of ochre-yellow, stand quite free on a white 
ground. Herr Bang-Haas sent me a cotype of kirschi Stgr. from Port Moresby, from which verbeeki from 
Milne Bay differs in the entirely black, in place of light grey, costal border, more sharply defined and purer 
white on the forewing, darker, slate-grey anal region of the forewing and broader black-grey border to the hind¬ 
wings, which have an extensive light ochre-yellow suffusion. The white on the underside of the forewings 
is more intense, extends further, the ocelli on the hindwings are much larger and much more broadly, dark 
ochre-yelloAV ringed, with distinct black periphery; Milne Bay. — rosseli Fruhst. $ smaller than mailua Sm. rosseli. 
from Milne Bay, ground colour lighter, more grey than black. Subapical spot in the foreAvings much more 
broadly white, especially on the underside. Anal ocelli on the hindwings not sliOAving through above. Under 
surface; Anal fold of hindwings Avhite, not black bordered so that the ocelli stand free on a white field. 2 rfd\ 
2 Meek leg. ex. coll. Croavley. Rossel Island, type in the British Museum. 
Like dina Stgr., T, Cyclops has hitherto been found only in Kaiser Wilhelms Land, and local races from 
other parts of New Guinea are still to be expected. Staudinger knew only one $, but conjectured, that the 
species would vary considerably, which has been confirmed by the amount of material since received in Eu¬ 
rope. In my collection there are 16 specimens, which vary in tAVo directions; the commonest form has the 
forewings light grey and, with the exception of the costal margin, which remains unchanged grey, may become 
almost entirely Avhite. If to this is added a bright silky gloss, then we have the fa. ferdinandi Fruhst. of which ferdinandi. 
the type is preserved in the Berlin Museum. The rarer form agapetlia Fruhst. (101 c) somewhat recalls diop- agapetha. 
trica amitaba Fruhst. (101 b) and is distinguished by the basal portion of the liindAvings being brown-grey in¬ 
stead of whitish; the yellow suffusion in the submedian part of the upper surface of the hindwings, peculiar 
to the normal cyclops, is also absent; the dS have shaggy hair-tufts, but in the $$the scales themselves are pu¬ 
bescent. The name type cyclops Stgr. has only one apical ocellus on the underside of the hindwings, it is cyclops. 
scarcer than agasta Stich. a form with only one anal ocellus in the hindwings, for I have only three <$<$ and agasta. 
two $$ of cyclops, and of agasta six Ao and four In cyclops the posterior ocellus is, as a rule, smaller 
than the anterior, only the fa. agapetha is an exception, with larger and more extensively ochre-yellow ringed 
anal ocellus. In all cyclops the median white colour on the forewing extends almost to the middle of the cell, 
