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MYNES. By H. Frtjhstorfer. 
a clelicately-woven network of red-brown lines, interspersed with large quadrate and wedge-shaped patches of 
whitish-yellow, and at the inner margin of the forewings a recumbent x shaped design; the tails of the hind- 
chersonesia. wings are very long and sharp-pointed. Three forms are known: chersonesia Fruhst. having on the upper surface 
the yellow stripes somewhat narrower, but the under surface marked with the deepest chestnut-brown. Type 
from the Malay Peninsula. As I do not have any specimens from thence available, I unite with it also the 
forms from north-eastern and western Sumatra. According to Hagen it is limited to the foot-hills, being found on 
hypatia. wood-roads up to about 3000 ft. -—- hypatia Wall, has especially in the $ the upper surface covered with broad, 
pale yellow patches bordered with reddish-brown, and on the hindwing the black median band partly obsolete. 
Beneath it is lighter yellow than chersonesia , delicately marked with red. I only found this form in western 
hippocrene. Java up to about 3800 ft. — hippocrene Stgr. appears, curiously enough, to approach much more closely hypatia 
from Java than the Sumatran form, having on the under surface the reel-brown network more conspicuous, 
and on the hindwing the intranerval spot analogous to chersonesia, blue-green, broader and protracted as 
far as the tip of the tail, whereas in hypatia it is smaller and rather purplish in colour. The $ is distinguish¬ 
ed by the white instead of yellowish bands, resembling somewhat hippoclus javanus-Q, forma hippocla Hhn. 
Possibly there exist also yellow $$. Ivina-Balu district. 
intricata. S„ intricata Fruhst. (121 e). In the <$ the apex of the forewing is rounded, the hindwings are of equal 
breadth as the forewings, and provided with Very long slender tails. On the forewing the black distal border is 
divided at the anal angle by a brown streak. The black median band bifurcates at the end of the cell, the inner 
branch coalescing with the black costal border; the outer one continues at first towards the apex, but turns 
finally also towards the costa, increasing in width to such an extent that there remain of the ground-colour in 
the but a few brown dots, in the $ a rather broad stripe. From the black costal border a fine spur 
advances into the cell. The hindwings have in the basal area a broad, black, distally deeply frayed-out spot 
and, adjoining it, in the middle of the costal margin a very conspicuous, white, quadrate patch. The middle of 
the wing is traversed by two bands starting from the costal margin, of which the inner one is very broad and 
reaches the anal angle, whereas the outer, narrower one ends at the submedian. The brown outer border is tra¬ 
versed by a thin black line, and bordered by a narrow, black, macular band. From the tail which is yellow at the 
tip, a fine black line is drawn to the inner margin. The forewing has the yellowish under surface crossed by a 
net-work of whitish and brownish spots. The costal margin is black, and below the cell we notice a violet dot as 
in hippoclus Cr. The hindwing has on the under surface a whitish median spot continuing to the lower radial, 
two whitish, basal, longitudinal bands and a similar transverse band, which latter starts from the middle of the 
inner margin and, turning upwards, crosses the wing parallel to and within the white median spot, and ends 
at the costal margin. The outer border and fringes are black. On both wings a greenish band reaches from the 
middle to the anal angle, being separated by a light brown stripe from the submarginal band, which is com¬ 
posed of silvery-green, almost square dots. Antennae alternately ringed with black and white, club black, red 
at the tip. The $ is larger, lighter-coloured on both sides, with less distinct bands and spots. In $ the length 
of forewing is 20 mm, in $ 22 mm. Of this species I found in November and December 1895, 2 1 $ at the 
edge of the woods bordering the Bay of Toli-Toli, since which time no specimens have ever reached Europe 
again. 
hippalus. S. hippalus Fldr. (121 e) is the third species of Symbrenthia peculiar to Celebes and, with S. hippoclus 
confluens Fruhst. and S. hippoclus claususFruhst., the fourth species found on that island, which therefore ranks 
with the entire continent of India, in which also four species are known, whereas the whole Macromalayan Archi¬ 
pelago boasts of but three species. On the upper surface hippalus resembles much rather Prothoe dohertyi (121 c) 
than a Symbrenthia. The under surface is like that of Mynes, being remarkable for the large square spots of pure 
white which are crossed by a network of heavy black lines; moreover both wings are marked at the base and inner 
angle with light ochre-yellow. As a rule the <§<§ greatly exceed in size our figure, the $ which was until 
now unknown and undescribed, measuring even as much as 53 mm in expanse. Still more it resembles Prothoe 
dohertyi in having on the forewings a whitish median band which reaches nearly to the costal margin, and a 
yellowish basal, as well as a dirty-white median spot in the cell. The hindwings are adorned with a dull yellow 
lace-band, surrounding the black submarginal spots. The $ has the under surface more cream-coloured, marked 
with paler yellow. Northern Celebes, Minahassa, always rare, $ exceedingly scarce. But 2 specimens in 
the Frtjhstorper collection. 
24. Genus: Mynes Bscl. 
Notwithstanding the gaudy appearance of the members of this genus they are true Vanessidi, which 
is not only proved by their structure, but especially also by the earlier stages, which are vanessoid in eveiy 
way. On the other hand, Mynes deviates in structure essentially from Prothoe, in spite of its close external 
resemblance to that genus, which really is closely allied to the Charaxidi. In the neuration it closely approxi¬ 
mates Hypolimnas in that the subcostal is five-branched, two nervules arising before the end of the cell, and the 
second branch coalescing for a short distance with the main stem. The origin of the third nervule is closer 
to the end of the cell than to the fourth, reaching the costal margin above the apex; the fourth and fifth bifurcate 
