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MORPHOTENARIS; STICHOPHTHALMA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
only in agapetha, which is otherwise also more broadly brown framed, it stops at the apex of the cell. A 
long tuft of hair between the median nervure and the submedian on the forewing is peculiar to some and 
fresh specimens have a delicate rosy flush on the upper surface of the wings as in some forms of dioptrica, 
e. g. timesias Kirsch from Jobi Island, cyclop-s is closely related to the next species, chionides, as shown espe¬ 
cially in the produced apex of the foreWings, but even more in the shape of the valve of the clasping organ. 
In this a long, very slender distal part is distinctly demarcated from the much broader basal part. The basal 
half of the valve has a doubly impressed prominence, which is smooth in chionides, and entirely wanting hr diop¬ 
trica. Scent tufts reddish, anal scent patch black, costal scent spots covered with rich shining black scales. 
Abdomen light yellow, antennae black. 
chionides. T. chionides Godm. inhabits British and German New Guinea and may be expected from the more 
extensive Dutch part of the Island-continent. It is rare and varies much as cyclops. chionides is readily distin¬ 
guished from cyclops by the dazzling white ground colour and the more extended, deep orange, instead of pale 
kubaryi. yellow, basal suffusion of the hindwings. — kubaryi Stgr. is very close to the mane type from British New 
Guinea; it has the same ocellar and colour varieties as chionides, but appears to be separated by the slighter, 
rather paler yellow basal colour on the underside of the hindwings. In both the above-named parts of New 
eugenia. Guinea specimens occur with entirely white upper surface of all wings (= eugenia Fruhst. (101 c) together 
aroana. with others showing a broad black border on the terminal margin of the hindwings (= aroana Frulist.). Normal 
specimens, as are most of the $$, are basally only lightly greyish powdered. Specimens with the entire surface 
cyclopides. of the forewings covered with grey and with distinct grey-brown marginal area on the hindwings (= cyclopides 
Fruhst.) are extremely rare. As in cyclops, specimens occur rarely having only the anterior ocellus in the hind- 
ambigua. wings, four in my collection, as against 8 which have also the anal ocellus (= ambigua Sticli.). Apex of 
valve rather shorter than in cyclops, dorsally straighter, ventrally less expanded. 
7. Genus: (VI<ftrg»§Botc k ii»ris Fruhst.. 
The only known species of this genus exceeds all Taenaris in size and in the greatly produced apex 
of the forewing. The posterior margin of the forewings is also more produced than in the Taenaridae, the 
basal hair-tufts longer, reddish beneath, yellowish or white above. The lower discocellular in the forewings 
is shorter than in Taenaris, but the 5th subcostal nervule is considerably longer and therefore reaches the di¬ 
stal margin much nearer to the upper radial than in the other Taenaridae. The palpi are white in place of 
yellow, black bordered with black apex. Abdomen white, not yellow or black as in Taenaris. Distribution, 
British and German New Guinea, probably yet to be discovered in the Dutch territory. 
schdnbergi. M. schonbergi Fruhst,. (104 d) has the upper surface even purer white than in Taenaris chionides, with 
a slightly oblique cacao- or coffee-brown transverse band on the fore wings, which fills the cell more or less 
completely, but always leaves a white border on the terminal margin. Hindwings only slightly black bordered, 
with always small, almost ecpial sized ocelli shoAving through above. Hindwings with dense, long, sometimes 
delicately yellow tinted hairs. Underside of hindwings sometimes suffused with yelkw as in the figure, or also 
pure white. German New Guinea from Friedrich-Wilhehns-Hafen and Constantinhafen, in coll. Fruhstor- 
nivcsccns. fer. — nivescens Rothsch. is a well-marked local race to which its author concedes specific rank. Upper sur¬ 
face translucent silver-white, only the first third of the costal margin on the forewings is red-broAvn, hindwings 
almost imperceptibly broAVn bordered and with only three ocelli on the underside, having a white iris and a black 
pupil, standing in a yelloAvish zone. From Eafa District, British New Guinea, at 5000 feet, taken in Octo¬ 
ber. Apparently only one $ yet known, which is in the Tring Museum. 
8. Genus: KtielioiBlithaliiiii Fldr. 
The feAV species of this genus are among the largest butterflies of the Indian Region, recalling in their 
form, and especially in the always distinctly developed ocelli of the underside, the Morphidae of the achilles 
group. Stichophthalma has in common Avith the Taenaridae the similar formation of the clasping organs, 
especially in the lateral clasps of the uncus. The uncus itself with its appendages is more robust than in Tae¬ 
naris, but the valve itself is weak, narrow and elongate, reminding of that of the genera Lethe and Melani- 
tis. Forewing with four subcostal nervules, which run free into the costal margin. Lower discocellular 
strongly concave inwardly. The <$<$ have a tuft of hair close behind the median which folloAVs the ground 
colour of the wing in its colouring. All Stichophthalma are forest insects, preferring hilly lands, and, at least 
in part, have oidy one generation, which is on the wing only in the spring of the year, from March to May. Area 
of distribution, the eastern Himalaya, with offshoots into Central China, Formosa and Camboja. 
nourmahal. St. nourmahal separates into two but little divergent local races; nourmahal Westw. of which 
nurinissa. scarcely half a dozen specimens are knoAA'n from the Native Sikkim, and nurinissa Nicev. which is found 
in quantities at Buxa in Bhutan and is (sold by english firms as nourmahal. ■ Both have in common 
a deep ochre-yellow "ground ”colour',! with red-broAvn basal area on all wings. ForeAvings someAAdiat 
