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for my collection contains six light-coloured specimens and only one which is black, and Dr. Hagen’s report 
is to the same effect. The upper surface of the cfcf is, as in all the male specimens from New Guinea and 
in the Waigeu form, of a greenish colour with all the dark portions of the under surface appearing blue. 
The black distal border which in the cf is very broad, is in the ? considerably narrower than in sestia ?. 
The forewings but rarely show any gray-white subapical spots. Occasionally ?? are found which greatly 
resemble ogulina cfcf from New Guinea, at least Hagen reports having found one at Stephansort in which 
the terminal border is at the anal angle nearly as fine as a thread and proximally shaded with blue. Three 
cfcf contained in my collection, one of which came from Mt. Gelu in the Finisterre Range, have on the 
under surface the yellow diseal area much lighter anteriorly and broadly bordered with black. The dark 
atinia Fruhst. is of larger size than the black cfcf from British New Guinea, with a longer yellow subapical atinia. 
band on the under surface of the forewing. — hesychia Fruhst. is based upon the light form from Goodenough hesychia. 
Island, situated to the north-east of British New Guinea. The ? is larger than guerini Wall from Queensland, 
having the ground-colour above much paler, almost approaching geoffroyi which it resembles also in the broad 
black bordering, particularly at the anal angle of the forewing. The broad, black, apical border which is more 
sharply defined than in guerini contains 3 yellowish spots. The costal border of the forewing is yellow as far as 
the middle of the wing. Beneath the black border of the forewing is much narrower, allowing a greater width 
to the white basal area which extends as far as the anal angle. The yellow subanal patch is broader, the 
green subanal band darker and nearly reaches the costal margin. — dertona Frulist. is the melanotic form of dertona. 
hesychia ; like this it is larger than the form from the main island and semperi Stgr. from Queensland. Beneath 
all the red and yellow spots on the forewing as well as the white spot near the costal margin above the 
cell are larger. On the hindwing the black border is narrower but the whitish submarginal band broader. 
The red basal spot greatly exceeds in size the one found in specimens from Waigeu; instead of two black 
subanal transverse bands we find but one; the canary-yellow shading extends much farther and the green sub¬ 
anal irroration is lighter. The upper surface is not greatly different; only the black distal border shows a 
tendency to grow broader. Goodenough Island. — elissa Fruhst. A cf specimen from Aru contained in elissa. 
the British Museum approximates much more to geoffroyi semperi Stgr. from Queensland than it does to the 
Papuan form. From geoffroyi it is easily distinguished by the presence on the upper surface of the forewing 
of a broad, yellow subapical band which is still darker ochre-yellow and broader than in semperi. On the 
under surface of the forewing the subapical band is nearly twice as broad as in typical geoffroyi, and 
lighter coloured than in semperi. The white costal patch is very narrow, long and sharply defined. The 
anal angle is dusted with black, the red patch between the median nervules very broad. On the hindwing 
the red basal spot is short, broad at its base, tapering to a sharp point. The subapical band is more oblique 
than in semperi, is narrower and ends in the middle part of the wing, whereas in semperi and geoffroyi 
it borders the entire outer margin with black. The subanal portion is not so broadly dusted with greenish 
as in geoffroyi , but much more than in semperi. From Wanumba. one of the Aru Islands Type (from Moore’s 
coll.) in British Museum. — guerini Wall, inhabiting tropical Australia from Queensland to Cape York, has been guerini, 
reared from gregariously living larvae as early as 1877. The brood appears first in June, but some specimens 
are found also in October and November. As both forms are more distinctly separated than is the case with the 
Papuan races, it may be assumed that on the Continent of Australia they are influenced by the seasons. — The 
white form semperi Stgr. does not show, even in the cf, the greenish irroration of the cfcf from New-Guinea, semperi 
but has the blue-gray submarginal zone of the hindwing still farther extended. The subapical patch on the under 
surface of the forewing as well as the chrome-yellow area on the hindwing of the cfcf are still larger than in geof¬ 
froyi Fuer. from Dorey. Of semperi we know specimens which represent a transition to the darker form, in such a 
way that whereas the under surface of the forewings remains white, the entire surface of the hindwing is suffused 
with black: cf negrito form, nov., figured by Semper (Journal Museum Godeffroy, 1878, PI. 9. fig. 13). — guerini Wall, negrito. 
is gray-blue above, black beneath, sharing with semperi the large, white, subapical spots on the forewing that dis¬ 
tinguish it from the Papuan races. In cf the under surface of the hindw. is adorned with a whitish, in ? with a pale 
green submarginal band which, together with the general richer colouring, distinguishes it from all the other forms. 
M. eucosmetos replaces geoffroyi in the Bismarck Archipelago whence we know two well defined insular 
forms, both belonging to the lighter type, eucosmetos Godm. and Salv., inhabiting Neu-Mecklenburg and Nussa eucosmetos. 
Laut, is very rarely found in collections. Larger in size than geoffroyi and woodfordi , having the broad subapical 
area on the upper surface of the forewing white in cf, yellowish in ?. The under surface is at once recognized 
by having in the place of the basal spot found in the other species, a broad red band traversing the entire costal 
margin of the hindwing. — cottonis Sm. is found in Neu-Ponnnern during February. The pupa is described by Dr. cottonis. 
Pagenstecher : Brownish in colour, keeled at the back, resembling those of our Vanessa and not unlike those 
of M. woodfordi. — In cf the black distal margin is broader without any subapical markings, in ? the forewings are 
broadly marked with white instead of yellow. The under surface of cf is still more brightly crimson, but the yellow 
bands are less broad than in eucosmetos. The ? is much larger, having the subapical area of the forewing also above 
pure white, beneath still broader and more oblique. This form, one of the most beautilul Mynes, is very scarce. - 
schoenbergi Bob. is another form with broad red costal margin on the under side of the hindwing, the type of which schoenbergi, 
is said to come from Constantinhafen. It this is not an error, schoenbergi must be regarded as an aberrative form of 
geoffroyi. Its size (about 60 mm) points to cottonis with wich it has also in common the crimson stripe on the hindwing. 
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