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MYNES. By H. Frtjhstorfer. 
rudimentary band, and on the submedian a blue-black irroration. On the hindwings we notice occasionally 
the vestiges of a greenish-gray submarginal band. The $ has also the apical area of the forewing spotted with 
albata. yellowish-white. Under surface rather gray than jet-black. -— - albata Ribbe from Bougainville and Treasury 
Island is a colour-aberration, having on the under surface of the forewing a yellowish cliscal spot, on the hind- 
isabella. wings the median area broader and the black border correspondingly narrower. — isabella Fruhst. G darker 
than woodfordi, the black ground-colour spreads farther, broadly surrounding and isolating the yellowish-green 
discal spots on the forewings, which in woodfordi and still more in hercyna form a compact mass. The hind- 
wings have beneath the yellow subanal spot broader and longer than in guerini, with which all the forms of 
woodfordi share this characteristic of the guerini-growp . The hindwings are above and beneath more richly 
banded with black than in woodfordi. Isabel Island, collected by A. Meek, type in the British Museum. — 
hercyna. hercyna Godm. a. Salv. is an interesting, melanotic, insular race fromAloa in Guadalcanar, a transition to which 
is, according to Ribbe, found in Rubiana. Both sexes are almost alike, largely black, having the median areas 
interrupted by the very heavy veins. In the G the under surface is chiefly yellowish instead of white, the black 
icahnesi. basal spot extending distally farther on the forewing. ■ — wahnesi Roeb. must probably be classed with wood¬ 
fordi ; as I lack authentic material I repeat the original diagnosis: $ measures 60 mm in expanse; above it 
is blackish-gray with a whitish, macular, apical resp. marginal band and two similar discal stripes on the fore¬ 
wing; the large, red, marginal spot seen between the second and third median nervules shows through above. 
The hindwings have the inner half dirty-white, sharply bordered along the subcostal, otherwise but indistinctly 
defined. The broad, dark, outer border which reaches almost to the middle of the wings, is between the sub¬ 
costal vein and second median nervule accompanied by a band composed of partly indistinct, white spots. On 
the under surface light yellow tints predominate. The forewings have, in addition to the usual macular apical band 
(cf. doubledaii), another shorter proximal one; the black outer border is narrow, the inner black submarginal 
band hardly twice as broad as the outer margin and sharply cut off at the submedian; the light red marginal 
spot is very large (more so than in the 3 $$-specimens of doubledaii before me), quadrangular and thinly 
margined with white. The hindwings have a red basal spot of normal size, (not a stripe like the above-described 
G), and a rather broad, black, marginal stripe which shades into the broad and dark outer border; this latter 
covers almost one half of the wing and is divided by the whitish, partially indistinct, macular stripes into 4 
(or, counting the narrow dark margin, into 5) bands; the yellow irroration of the basal area characteristic of 
doubledaii and guerini is entirely wanting. Said to come from Constantin-hafen on Astrolabe Bay; but this 
seems uncertain as Mr. v. Schoenberg, whose collection contained the type, received material from every 
part of the Archipelago, but hardly ever labelled it. 
M. geoffroyi is represented by three local forms, found in New Guinea and a few of the adjacent islands 
as well as in Queensland, whence the type came. It is especially interesting on account of the Dimorphism 
of both sexes, either of which may have the hindwings either completely black (121 a), or half white and half 
chrome-yellow, with corresponding intermediate forms. Staudinger and myself separated formerly the dark 
from the white form, but on further examination this was proved a mistake, both forms having the sexual 
organs identical. In Kallima however, the sexual organs are even in otherwise closely allied forms widely different, 
and considering the near relationship between the two genera, I do not feel justified in separating those two 
forms of Mynes. Most sharply defined and modified is the Australian form; in the others white G<$ are more 
geoffroyi. scarce than black ones. — geoffroyi Guer. is presumably founded upon the light form from Dutch New Guinea, 
approaching eugenia and sestia (121 a), but differing from these in $ in having the distal border on the upper 
doryca. surface of the hindwing half blue-gray and half black. — doryca Btlr. (121a) is the corresponding black form, from 
turturilla. Dutch New Guinea, Dorey and Kapaur in my collection. —- turturilla subsp. nov. is the form from Waigeu, based 
on specimens which are black in either sex. The $ has on the upper surface the fore whig more broadly bordered 
with black, but on the hindwing the dark border is often reduced, being replaced by a lovely blue-gray zone. On 
the under surface the hindwings have the green submarginal band broader. In one G the rod intramedian spot 
braga. on the under surface of the forewing is absent (braga form. nov.). ■—- The white $-form I name scatim'a form, 
sea turn a. nov } distinguished from geoffroyi by the very narrow, chrome-yellow zone on the under surface of the hind- 
ogulina. wings, and from the Dorey-form by the darker green subanal area. Both forms are scarce in Waigeu. -—- ogu- 
lina Fruhst. based on the black variety from Milne Bay, British New Guinea. In this form the green colour on 
the under surface of the hindwings is still more reduced than in turturilla from Waigeu; above it is at a glance 
recognized by the black distal border, which is in the G on the hindwings towards the anal angle as 
sestia. fine as a thread, and proximally bordered by a lovely blue-gray zone. -—- sestia Fruhst. is the corresponding 
light $-form (121 a), differing above from the analogous aberration from German New Guinea in having 
especially on the fore wings the apical area more broadly irro rated with blue-black. Flies from May 
eugenius. until November at Milne Bay. —- eugenius Fruhst. (121 a, eugenius $ instead of G) is the form from 
Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, based upon specimens placed at my disposal by the generosity of Dr. Eugene 
Werner. From these it almost seems, as if in the German colony the yellow-white form predominates; 
